I probably could spend about 1000 words describing the obstacles and achievements The Warrior has experienced in my time as editor, and what I perceive as The Warrior’s role on campus to be over the next few years.

But those things, you can see for yourself. And in regards to The Warrior’s future, that’s still to be seen.

I’m not an expert college student or even expert editor, but the best piece of advice I’ve ever received is this: Don’t settle.

Settling is the ultimate act of cowardice. It’s putting your hands up in the air and saying, “I give up, I don’t care, do with me as you will, world.”

Settling manifests itself in many ways. Sometimes it’s indifference, not caring. It’s knowing the student government is spending your money unwisely, and then accepting a higher student activity fee. It’s finding out the Vagina Monologues will be performed on campus and not voicing your disapproval.

Sometimes, settling is tolerating the status quo – Knowing tuition rises every year but never asking why; accepting that Daniel Maguire will be on campus next year and trying to pretend he isn’t as loud and obnoxiously anti-Catholic as he really is. This is the type of settling, I would say, that allows for situations to worsen.

Other times, settling is letting somebody else tell you how things should be. It’s hearing a Theology professor cite universal health care as a part of Christian discipleship but not speaking up in class.

Settling is letting others get the best of you. It’s letting opportunities pass you by, and not caring enough to realize they could have been yours. It’s lowering your standards for the sake of peace-making and compromise, or for the sake of remaining favorable in the eyes of people who may not even matter in a few years.

Of course, it is hard to be bold all the time, but I hope you can draw strength from this verse a friend shared with me last week: “Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil… stand fast with your loins girded in truth, clothed with righteousness as a breastplate, and your feet shod in readiness for the gospel of peace. In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.” -Ephesians 6:10

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