COLUMN: Staying the course -- apathy in the bubble.

Byline: Lisa Mendelman

STANFORD, Calif., Nov 03, 2006 (The Stanford Daily, U-WIRE via COMTEX) -- It's November 3. Do you know where you're voting?

In case you've been fully consumed by life in the Stanford bubble for the past six weeks, let this serve as your reminder: Election Day is four days away. Now is the time to shake off your accepted Stanford apathy, disprove the stereotype, and exercise one of your constitutional rights.

Ok, I'll step down from my soapbox (this is, after all, the Daily, not the Stanford Review). This column is not about who you should vote for or why you should vote -- the former would be inappropriate for a column about life at Stanford and the latter would take far more than 800 words to defend. No, this column is about why Stanford students have long been associated with the ignorant indifference of sandy-headed ostriches. Perhaps it's …