The Wabash Commentary

By a rough count: 15 faculty and staff, 32 students, 13 sphinx club members, 13 rhynies (who probably would not have been there otherwise), and 2 ESH workers.  The disappointment that overflowed from Mr. Jim Amidon’s words spilled into an empty chapel.  “It takes effort to build and sustain this community,” he said, staring at empty pews and exhausted faces.   Apathetic faces.

Look it up on the Wabash website.  It was a good speech, but I’m not interested in summarizing it.  I’m more interested in trying to understand why so few of us made it to the chapel Thursday morning.  Perhaps because we have been knocked down, and we do not have the guts to get back up.  Perhaps because we are afraid.  Perhaps, most of all, because the wrong man was at the podium giving the lecture.