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I posted a comment on Samantha Brooke's blog about ADD and ADHD, to see it clickhere

Drinking on Campus

There have been many issues concerning drinking on the SMU campus this year. There was a Task Force put together to give President Turned suggestions on what should be done to keep the drinking to a minimum and how to make drinking safer. President Turner recently decided which of these recommendations he will keep and which to be dismissed. He turned down having an on campus pub and to have parties on campus that will serve beer to people of age. I completely agree with this decision. Having a pub on campus is absolutely ridicules. People already complain about the public not taking SMU seriously and not holding its academics in high enough regard. Having a pub on campus would only further these opinions.
President Turner approved a mandatory attendance policy, increased classes on Fridays, limiting the number of courses a student can drop, every class having two hours of work for every hour spent in class, and all lower-division courses having finals. I do not believe that all of these recommendations will help. I know that I go out every Thursday when I have classes on Fridays. It is the business school that mainly does not have classes on Fridays and that lets the kids get jobs or internships that many of them wouldn’t have time to get. Teachers should be able to decide to give a lot of work or to have a final no matter what. It should not be up to the administration, rather the teachers.
Another approved recommendation was to not allow fraternities to have bus parties on the weekdays and limit them to only the weekends. Well, fraternities are not going to stop having parties on the weeknights so not having busses will only increase the drunk driving and therefore make it even more unsafe. While many of President Turner’s approvals will help the drinking problem on our campus some of them will only backlash so I just hope that the administration is prepared to deal with what comes from all of the changes. They have dealt with this problem very well and I think they will be able to deal with anything else us students throw at them.

To read the article from the Daily Campus click here

New Boarding Passes

I left a comment on new boarding passes here

Its all foreign to me

I am part of the many students that have chosen to peruse a degree form the Meadows School of the Arts and therefore have a language requirement that must be filled. Now let me tell you this is my third time taking beginning Spanish, let me repeat, THIRD TIME! And I still dot understand anything that is going on. I have learned the same things, studied for weeks for tests, and tried out different tutors but nothing seems to work. I do not have a language brain. Some of us were built to learn languages. Take my dad for example he has studied French and Latin and can also speak fluent Spanish just from living in southern California and having many patients that speak Spanish come into his office. He is wired to learn foreign languages. I on the other hand am not. That is why I do not agree with having a language requirement, sure it is great to expand your mind and learn about a different culture, but not if that means I am going to get a bad grade. I would be completely fine with a bad grade if I didn’t try, but I have put countless hours into a beginning Spanish class that I will most likely be lucky if I make a C in. I know that the requirement will most likely never change but I just wish some consideration would be given to students like me that it really is almost impossible for.

SMU, too easy?

It was last Thursday I believe that there was an article in the Daily Campus about how students are choosing to leave SMU after the first year because it is not challenging enough. I'm not sure who these students are that think SMU is too easy but I would love to meet them because they must be geniuses. This has been the most academically challenging year I have had so far and I am only expecting it to get harder as I get more involved in my major. I believe that college is the challenge you make for yourself. If you are not being challenged enough in your major then why not try another one? Or how about double majoring? SMU is a great academic institution and I feel proud to be getting a degree form such a great school. If you can get into a better school after your freshman year then by all means go for it but I don’t appreciate SMU being put down. I have talked to many of my friends who believe that SMU is a challenge, even the ones in the honors programs. We would not be ranked so highly and our alumni would not be so successful if SMU did not prepare them correctly. I feel to privileged to be here at SMU and I hope all of you do as well.

Here is the article from the DAILY CAMPUS

Is TV addicting?

I posted a comment here about Television..

Drinking Age

I left a comment on Powerade's blog about underage drinking. check it out..