Don’t be shackled

Our first campaign, ‘Don’t be shackled by politics on campus’ came about when we were thinking about what it is like to be on a university campus in a time where politics is the hot topic to debate for a lot of students. By no means are we advocating that you should ignore your political beliefs; we are saying you should embrace them and indeed stand up for them, but not be shackled by the idea of following the crowd or pander to so called fashionable political views. I am not condoning extreme groups who try and spread hate for their cause; what I am instead talking about the value of free and fair debate. One of the great things about university is that it is a place to debate ideas and beliefs, a place to deconstruct what your own views are, build upon them or change them. So when you are on campus, listen to other peoples’ views and calmly discuss your own; you never know, you might learn a lot off each other even if you initially thought you were diametrically opposed.