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GUEST COLUMN
Change isn't such a bad idea after all
By: Lauren Gentry
Issue date: 4/13/09 Section: Opinion
In response to Wednesday's "All students need to work together to improve A&M:"
Well, what a weight off my shoulders. The secret is out: over 45,000 students at Texas A&M University actually HATE everything we stand for. Thank God we have someone brave enough to actually proclaim such knowledge to the rest of the University community - I mean, since we are lacking in any resemblance of school spirit, we probably did not read the article (who really wants to support a school newspaper…really?) I think it is only fair to examine why all of these non-reg students are so spiritless and how our spirit deficiency is ruining this University.
To begin with, I want to say how truly sorry I am that we are not all alike - I know, what an awful concept. There are thousands upon thousands of students at Texas A&M and we all cannot maintain the same opinion - is damnation in our near future? Can we really ever achieve success? Should I quit school now and possibly consider transferring to that other school in Austin? There is also the fact that I know nothing about this University, its traditions and its history. I did not attend Fish Camp. I do not attend football games. I walk on the grass at the MSCC because I do what I want at my University. I am proud to call myself a student at….this is Texas A&M, right? It is important to entirely disregard the fact that I am a student worker, an officer in a service sorority, a member of a leadership and service organization through the MSCC and a Fish Camp Counselor because ALL of those organizations could never compare to the value and the knowledge that an individual gains within the Corps. Come to think of it, I think all we do in those types of organizations is…help other people who are not like us. Oh God, the cyclical horror.
I think it is really nice that the Corps is willing to work with and attempt to cooperate with us common folk of the University - I have never truly been granted such an opportunity to be assimilated - excuse me, accepted - into such a welcoming group. As for seeing the remains of the University slip away, you are right - it IS a tragedy that they are closing the MSCC for three years…wait. What's that?…Oh, you were talking about the fact that nobody follows any traditions while I was busy discussing a student center that impacts every student on campus. My bad.
I see that the root of this problem is change, and by golly, change is terrible. Look at how much better our world would be if there was no change. The Houston Astros would still be the Colt 45's, we would all be talking in British accents and those terrible McShaker Salads from McDonalds would still be terrorizing the nation. No, no, it is true: change is the last thing this University needs before it plummets into the realms of "acceptance" and "keeping an open mind" and "personal thought-provoking ideas." In fact, all change that has ever occurred should be removed, and the University should resemble what it did years and years ago. If that is the case, let me move out of my apartment now and work on my transfer applications, because I have no place being at a male-only University.
Well, what a weight off my shoulders. The secret is out: over 45,000 students at Texas A&M University actually HATE everything we stand for. Thank God we have someone brave enough to actually proclaim such knowledge to the rest of the University community - I mean, since we are lacking in any resemblance of school spirit, we probably did not read the article (who really wants to support a school newspaper…really?) I think it is only fair to examine why all of these non-reg students are so spiritless and how our spirit deficiency is ruining this University.
To begin with, I want to say how truly sorry I am that we are not all alike - I know, what an awful concept. There are thousands upon thousands of students at Texas A&M and we all cannot maintain the same opinion - is damnation in our near future? Can we really ever achieve success? Should I quit school now and possibly consider transferring to that other school in Austin? There is also the fact that I know nothing about this University, its traditions and its history. I did not attend Fish Camp. I do not attend football games. I walk on the grass at the MSCC because I do what I want at my University. I am proud to call myself a student at….this is Texas A&M, right? It is important to entirely disregard the fact that I am a student worker, an officer in a service sorority, a member of a leadership and service organization through the MSCC and a Fish Camp Counselor because ALL of those organizations could never compare to the value and the knowledge that an individual gains within the Corps. Come to think of it, I think all we do in those types of organizations is…help other people who are not like us. Oh God, the cyclical horror.
I think it is really nice that the Corps is willing to work with and attempt to cooperate with us common folk of the University - I have never truly been granted such an opportunity to be assimilated - excuse me, accepted - into such a welcoming group. As for seeing the remains of the University slip away, you are right - it IS a tragedy that they are closing the MSCC for three years…wait. What's that?…Oh, you were talking about the fact that nobody follows any traditions while I was busy discussing a student center that impacts every student on campus. My bad.
I see that the root of this problem is change, and by golly, change is terrible. Look at how much better our world would be if there was no change. The Houston Astros would still be the Colt 45's, we would all be talking in British accents and those terrible McShaker Salads from McDonalds would still be terrorizing the nation. No, no, it is true: change is the last thing this University needs before it plummets into the realms of "acceptance" and "keeping an open mind" and "personal thought-provoking ideas." In fact, all change that has ever occurred should be removed, and the University should resemble what it did years and years ago. If that is the case, let me move out of my apartment now and work on my transfer applications, because I have no place being at a male-only University.
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