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The Clarion
April 19, 2005
Opinion
The good and
the bad
The best and the
worst from the last
few weeks
by Hall Penn
Editor-in-Chief
Tiger's amazing chip-in on the 16th hole at
ij Augusta National that led to his fourth green
jacket.
Bill Frist planning to speak to a Kentucky
church rally against filibusters, saying they're
used "against people of faith."
The campuswide discussion about the
football team.
The President’s nomination of John
Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
Republican threats to the judicial branch.
& 'Liiitrr View
Freshmen need to grow up
by Heather Hinkle
Staff Writer
1 have been listening for over half a semester to freshman
complaining about the new BCEl 10 Quest class. 1 have heard that
it is “pointless, to challenging, school work takes away from other
classes, and many more.” 1 know that I am a junior and that 1 hav^
not taken this class, but 1 just wanted to tell all you freshman out
there to suck it up!
You are not in high school anymore. Welcome to college!
Classes are supposed to be challenging, and if you don’t like it
McDonalds is hiring down the street. I’ll even give you a recom
mendation. This is just one of those things in life you have to doi
and complaining about it will not help the situation. You are still
going to have to pass the class to graduate like all the other
students that come after you.
I seldom hear anyone complaining about taking a mandatory)
English or Biology course, so why complain now? Is it because the
freshman class has the idea that, “Well the sophomores didn’t have
to do it, so why do we?” If your going to complain about it, do it in
a constructive manner instead of just randomly spewing out
negative remarks about a progrjim in its first year.
A program in its first year is going to have lots of kinks, but I
feel that learning to think critically and becoming a better rounded
individual is worth all the little hiccups.
There are going to be many situations in your life where you
are not going to like doing something but you will have to do it
anyway. So once again, suck it up, grow up, stop complaining, and
welcome to college!
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