As long as there is sports and sex ...

I am shocked and angry about the brutality of the UCLA campus police in subduing a student who refused to show them his student id. The videotape of the incident was shown numerous times on T.V. But there is hardly a ripple in the student community of UCLA. I just cannot help comparing how the students in an Indian university would have reacted to a similar incident. The whole campus would have exploded in uproar with massive protest demonstrations and boycott of the classes. Inevitably, the demonstrations would get out of control with the police manhandling or arresting some students. That would trigger off a chain of protests and demonstrations by students from other colleges. Things would have settled down only after the dismissal of the policemen and the resignation of at least one top official of the university! While I do not want such an overreaction, I am disappointed at the lame ‘mind my own business’ nature of the students here in USA. They seem to be quite withdrawn from the current political and social issues. Their attitude is ‘why bother if it does not affect me now’. Other than studies, sports and sex appear to be their only interest. It is a shame because an idealistic young generation, bold enough to challenge the establishment, is the future for a society conscious of the rights and well being of the people.