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November 06, 2009
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Editorials Belittling treatment draws senior's ire Wednesday night I was leaving the newspaper office and walking by Benny's when a note stuck above the ordering kiosk caught my attention: "Toaster is broken. We are unable to toast any orders at this time," followed by some apology for the inconvenience.When you think about this, shouldn't the apology be for the insult to college students' intelligence? The toaster is broken. I'm with them so far. So they can't toast anything. Wait, back up, they've lost me. I just laughed at this absurd sign, but the incident got me thinking. I've been feeling all this year--my senior year--like I am being treated like a small child. Whether it's signs that assume that even if I know the toaster is broken I will still request that my bagel be toasted or having little advance notice of important deadlines, I want to sit someone down and say, "Just tell me what's going on this year! I can handle it!" Do any other seniors recall the one week's notice we received about our senior portraits? That go in the yearbook forever and maybe to family and friends in graduation announcements? The photography company cautioned us against getting a haircut too close to picture day. Well, I didn't really have that option, since I think five days falls under "close to picture day." When are we being measured for caps and gowns? At this rate, it could be tomorrow, so check your campus mail obsessively. In my high school, we had a meeting as a senior class where we received a schedule for all of these things. This is not a large school, so is a packet with a basic timeline really too much to ask for? This is occurring in classes as well. I have one course--which is populated entirely by seniors--that included no schedule of exams, papers or assignments on the syllabus, only that they will occur. It's my senior year and I have a few other things going on, can I be allowed to plan things out in advance please? I know that not everyone schedules out assignments and such as obsessively as I do, but we're seniors so can you assume that we 1) have better things to do than wait to learn of deadlines and 2) can handle more than one task at once? Oh, and that we know that a broken toaster means you can't toast anything. I think even freshmen could figure that out. |
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