“The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference,” Elie Wiesel said. In a country based on democracy, passion and liberty, there is no room for apathy. Whether it seems like it or not, changes in our government affect every single person in this school; the 18-year-olds and 80-year-olds should all care about healthcare, because someday we will be searching for the lowest insurance costs. Someday, everything that is going through legislation right now will affect our individual liberties in the future.

Students enter the world of public high school, experiencing a change in their social lives and grades

Just picture it: a classroom with 18 kids, a lunch line stocked with catered food, and hallways filled with students who know your name, your academic and sports achievements, and most likely what you did last weekend. In a school of nearly 3,000 students, such a thing seems foreign.