The media has been pregnant with news on the Occupy Wall Street spectacle that’s been causing a commotion in New York. However, some of your peers are not aware such an incident exists. Even when the movement trickled its way down South to Austin, it took the creation of a Facebook event to spark any attention from those who would have been left in the dark otherwise. The self described “99%” who occupy various locations protesting the “greed and corruption of the 1%” have been garnering world wide recognition. As of Oct. 15, there have been 1500 protests in 82 countries. Sure, their method of protests is a little slapdash, but come on, these people are “leaderless”, cut them some slack. The protestors range from disgruntled hippies, to disgruntled former college students in debt, to just plain angry people, all of whom want some kind of change in America. Yet, there’s a trend with some members of the resistance- it’s called blind faith. When a group of 40 students at the University of Texas walked out of their classrooms earlier this month to join the Occupy Austin movement, it caused a bit of a scene. But surely for a number of those students, the object of the walk out was less about causing a scene and more about joining it. Regardless of this bandwagon approach, is it so unbelievable that college students care more about getting out of class then getting into the political arena? Not really. Although, for youth in other countries, politics are not just topics we (sometimes) see on our news feeds- they are in the streets, in the colleges, in the air. In other countries, college students and young adults are starting revolutions. Young people are actually manipulating the evil that is social networking and using it to spread knowledge about injustices that are affecting their present lives. So how ironic is it- after a summer of foreign turmoil- that the underdogs of America rise up and revolt against the insidious 1 percent? Sometimes there’s never a more truthful sting than irony. Yet, in a college that preaches global understanding, shouldn’t St. Edward’s students be more aware of worldly issues (or issues in Austin, at the very least), not just thought provoking topics of discussion like Kim Kardashian’s wedding (which I found both overdone and half-baked). “Learn to think” may just be our school’s slogan- a clever use of branding- or it may be an encouragement to consider our surroundings and our relation to them. The general sense of indifference towards the Occupy Movement is as troubling as it is expected; young adults would rather trouble themselves with weekend plans then trouble themselves at all. Nonetheless, that doesn’t mean the movement’s message shouldn’t be taken to heart. After college, many students will be left in debt looking for a job in one of the worse economies the country has ever seen. Thus, what might seem irrelevant to your life now could very well be your future.