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A couple of weeks ago we got some snow and like usual the city went crazy.
It wasn’t just the county that always seems unprepared for snow, nor was it just the administration waiting to see what the county was going to do, but the students followed suit.
We sat on our butts in our apartments, houses or dorms screaming that the administration wasn’t doing enough to clear the ice and snow. Some of us said, “I’m not going to class at all,” or “Other schools have a delay, why not us,” or “I don't feel like going out in this mess, they should cancel classes,” etc.
Do we realize that we are always complaining instead of acting to provide a solution to the problem?
Of course the school was covered in snow and ice and needed to be cleared up.
Of course the administration has a limited staff, which is why some bathrooms look like crap in some buildings and we know this, but yet we expected them to make a duck pull a truck and clear acres of snow from our campus.
I pose this to the students: Why not get the SGA or try to mobilize some of the fraternities and sororities on campus to get to together and help shovel sidewalks and parking lots when this happens?
Ask the administration for shovels or for those groups that can, go out and buy shovels and share them.
I know we don’t believe in doing something for nothing, so maybe those who need motivation could get community service hours for helping out.
This is Black History Month. Do you really believe that any civil rights movements would have been effective by simply whining?
The civil rights movement happened because people mobilizing and did what needed to be done.
Could you imagine Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King or Malcolm X not going to class because there was snow on the ground?
Stop playing. They would get their fellow students together to clean it so they could get that education no matter what.
Men would say, “OK, our females feel unsafe walking to class, let me clear a path for them or at least help walk them to class so they don't hurt themselves.”
Maybe it’s just me, but we are too quick to dismiss getting our education because of snow when we can get together and clean it up or make an effort to act like adults and deal with it and go to class.
Sure, it might mean parking farther away where the roads have been cleared better. Is it really that bad to have to walk further? It is a joke for those who live on campus to say anything, as you don’t have to drive to class.
Take your time, leave earlier and walk for your education. Some of our fellow Eagles were still whining on Wednesday when the roads were clear. At some point it has to stop and we have to value our education more.
We should be upset when classes are cancelled instead of looking at it as party time or thinking, “I have an extra day to do that homework I haven’t started on yet that was going to be due today.”
I'm not saying, I’m just saying...
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