2008 Woodie Awards
Editorials
By: The Editorial Staff
Issue date: 5/6/04 Section: Opinion
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Students party hard at Activities Center
At Issue: The Student Activites Center is a breeding ground for drugs and alcohol; with students breaking the code of conduct.
Loud music can be heard everywhere and people are break dancing on the stage. Almost everyone is using profanity and men and women utter sexist and racist slurs to attract the attention of the opposite sex.
There is a faint smell of marijuana in the air and a man sits at a card table and rolls a blunt in plain view. A couple stands in a corner kissing and rubbing up againt each other as others walk by and stare.
Two younger males sit at a table and pass around Tropicana juice bottles filled with alcohol so their buddies can take a sip and smell its contents.
No, we're not sitting in a night club in L.A. The place is EC's Student Activities Center on a recent Monday at 2:30 p.m.
In the Activities Center there are more than 10 signs which state the Standards of Student Conduct.
We can say that in the hour we spent in the Activities Center every one of the conduct rules were broken. However, we didn't see any students with a weapon.
The Student Activities Center is not a place for students to do whatever they please. There is a time and place to drink and be disruptive, but this is an educational environment, not a night club.
If students think they have to drink and do drugs at school and can't wait for the right time, maybe they should consider visiting the Health Center for help with their addictions.
Help given to those during the first year
At Issue: The First Year Experience program offers guidiance and assistance during a student's first year of college.
Entering college, most students are afraid and unsure of what classes to take, but their confusion can come to an end once they join the First Year Experience program.
The program offers students who are attending their first year of college guidance in their academic, personal and future career plans.
At Issue: The Student Activites Center is a breeding ground for drugs and alcohol; with students breaking the code of conduct.
Loud music can be heard everywhere and people are break dancing on the stage. Almost everyone is using profanity and men and women utter sexist and racist slurs to attract the attention of the opposite sex.
There is a faint smell of marijuana in the air and a man sits at a card table and rolls a blunt in plain view. A couple stands in a corner kissing and rubbing up againt each other as others walk by and stare.
Two younger males sit at a table and pass around Tropicana juice bottles filled with alcohol so their buddies can take a sip and smell its contents.
No, we're not sitting in a night club in L.A. The place is EC's Student Activities Center on a recent Monday at 2:30 p.m.
In the Activities Center there are more than 10 signs which state the Standards of Student Conduct.
We can say that in the hour we spent in the Activities Center every one of the conduct rules were broken. However, we didn't see any students with a weapon.
The Student Activities Center is not a place for students to do whatever they please. There is a time and place to drink and be disruptive, but this is an educational environment, not a night club.
If students think they have to drink and do drugs at school and can't wait for the right time, maybe they should consider visiting the Health Center for help with their addictions.
Help given to those during the first year
At Issue: The First Year Experience program offers guidiance and assistance during a student's first year of college.
Entering college, most students are afraid and unsure of what classes to take, but their confusion can come to an end once they join the First Year Experience program.
The program offers students who are attending their first year of college guidance in their academic, personal and future career plans.