This is not an election year.

I know this, it's obvious everywhere I look.

And everyone is telling me that what I'm about to propose is a bad idea, that I will fail, because it is not an election year.

 Well guess what, people, government doesn't end once the president is sworn in.

 Remember how excited we were during the election? We who grew up under President Bush, under terrorism, under two wars.

 Then here comes McCain and Obama, talking about how it is our time. That we can be the next great generation with our computers, mobiles, Facebook and Twitter. And we responded with smiles and passion.

 I forget how many McCain and Obama signs I saw in the windows of the Ghetto leading up to November of 2008. It was a good time, no, a great time to be a voter.

 I watched the State of the Union this year and at the end found no one to talk about it with me.

No one wanted to argue about revoking "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," to talk about pulling combat troops from Iraq by the end of August, to wonder what the president meant about a $10,000 tax credit for four years of college.

 So where is everyone now? Where are the debates? The slander? The fistfights? Where's the passion we felt, Democrat, Republican, or Independent as we neared the end of the never-ending campaign?

 Our scrutiny of the government shouldn't stop just because the president is sworn in. If anything, it should be sharper.

Shall we leave the watching and debating to pundits? Shall we get our news from morning re-runs of Stewart, Colbert, Olbermann and Beck?

 Are we just in hibernation till the 2012 election year, which will probably start at the end of this one?

 As the president reminded Congress in his State of the Union, we sent them to D.C. to serve us. The responsibility lies with both parties to govern.

 And we have our own responsibility to watch these men and women and judge whether we believe them fit for duty.

 So here is my plan, a weekly television show on Flyer Cable channel 50. A place where an issue is neutrally explained and then discussed between two opposing sides, professors and students alike.

 We're in college, now is when we have the time to decide where we stand on issues. When we have the time to research, listen and argue.

 So I invite you, all of you, reading this letter, to e-mail me with what you think about this show. Like any good revolution, I can't do this alone.

 And I invite you to be on the show as well. We need passion and arguments and that can't happen unless you step up and take a mic to go with your stand.