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Our Mission
 As
college students, we are about to face big problems when we graduate -
from global warming to endangered species, from the escalating cost and
declining quality of health care to the plight of the hungry and
homeless.
Every campus has its share of apathy, but students
care about these problems. And more than any other group of people, we
have the time, the energy, the intelligence, the resources and the
idealism to help solve them.
But will we?
After all,
colleges and universities teach students to become effective doctors,
lawyers, engineers, computer programmers, entrepreneurs, managers and
the like. But they don't really teach us to become effective citizens.
And effective citizenship is what it takes to shake up the status quo
and get decision-makers to act on big social problems.
That's where the Maine Student Public Interest Research Group, or Maine PIRG, comes in.
Students
who have been involved with Maine PIRG have not only learned how to
investigate a problem and come up with a practical solution. We've also
learned how to convince the media and decision-makers to pay attention
and take action.
In other words, through Maine PIRG we gain an
educational experience in democratic citizenship. In addition, we get a
chance to face up to society's big problems, take action, and win
concrete changes that improve the quality of our lives.
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