Student 25 – 8

Late nights, long days and drastic regimens of junk food and caffeine supplements mixed with hours and hours of memorizing and cramming make up an average college student’s life. In addition, most students have jobs or a source of income to pay for tuition, fees, and expenses. Being a student is like being a workaholic, you do your job 24-7.
Then why is it that in an occupation that demands a 24-7 lifestyle that we have a nine-to-five institution?
Every student on this campus deserves around-the-clock attention when it comes to the completion of his or her collegiate degree. Every students deserves, but when we are not getting what we deserve, what do we do? Complain.
One of the biggest complaints on this campus is about the Southern University library.
Why is it that the library closes early on Friday, and opens late on Saturday and Sunday? That is not to mention the several weekends toward the end of last semester when the library opened several hours late or failed to open at all.
Your answer is because the students let it continue to happen.
Why is that the computer lab in the library always out of paper? Heck, why is it that the whole campus seems to have a severe shortage of paper? Getting copies on this campus is like receiving orders from the Pope.
Now, I know that some people would say “if I do not like the situation on this campus that I should look at other college campuses and see that they have the same problems.”
Well we are not any other college campus, this is Southern University and we should concern ourselves with the issues and situations that affect us.
It seems that Southern has developed a student population that does not want to know the answers to the questions. It is so much easier to complain.
We as a student population seem to be benevolent and passive in the things that strike us as unjust. Sure we talk about these things, but griping about a shortage of paper to your friends is not going to magically make reams of paper appear.
In defense of the student population, the Student Government Association has sponsored student forums as of late to address issues. Great idea student government, but students, if they aren’t working fast enough for you then go to the administration yourself, get off you tail and demand that the situation change. Write letters, go see the Chancellor, ask him your questions and find out the answers.
Giving up and saying this is just the way it is will only make the problems seem worse. At least with the answers, or some of the facts you can understand the “why” and “why not” of the issues you have complaints about.
Knowledge is power, and the only way to change something is to know what it is. Learn and the power will follow.