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EDITORIAL PAGE Thursday, March 24,1994 7 Rethinking the Importance of Drinking by John Hess During the past few weeks at school, I have heard talk of some people wanting to reduce the amount of drinking on the cam pus. Several students have been removed from the school due to their behaviors involving drink ing, drug use, and lack of class attendance. To me this is very disheartening. One should never forget why he/she first chose to come to St. Andrews, or why one chose to come to college. We are here to get an education! This should be the first priority on anyone's list. I am not saying that we should lock ourselves in our rooms to study and not party. Merely, we should be careful to take care of our responsibilities before we go out and have a good time. If you came to college just to party, than you do not belong here. Many people get sucked into the party atmosphere once they are here and are frustrated with classes. Just remember that the person next door who is telling you to forget about your work and have a beer does not care what happens to you when (or if) you graduate. It is your job to make sure that you get a decent education and prepare yourself for the real world. A boss is not as forgiving as a professor when you do not show up for three days. Don't allow yourself to get sucked into the attitude that col lege is a haven for your party. If you don't make the grades you won't be in college. If we, as a student body, are not capable of taking c^ of our selves and our responsibilities, then we will lose our privileges. A school will not treat us as adults if we cannot act like adults. Take responsibility for your actions. Don't allow your friends to ruin your life, use your fifteen grand to get something more out of St. Andrews than just a room to drink in. D.O.A. at the K.O.A. by Molly A. Scoles Instead of blistering every one with a searing commentary on the woes of the school, this issue Tve decided to carry over my hedonistic mood fixjm last week's fabled spring break and grace you with my camping expe rience. Never fear, however, for my fingers are itching to blast everybody next time. I don't know about the rest of you, but I had a fantastic break. A bunch of us drove down to the Florida Keys and "roughed" it. Okay, it wasn't that rough. There was a pool and a bar with cheap beer and a lot of good people to hang out with, so it could have been worse. Some things DID happen, though, which caused me to raise an eyebrow on more than one occasion, dealing with dis crimination and sexism. No, Tm not talking about the kind of discrimination and sexism involving race or religion or any of the other issues you hear about day to day. I'm talking about a blatant disrespect towards college students. Among the ten of us camp ing, I'd venture to say that we, or our parents in some cases includ ing mine, "invested" at least $3,000 into the greater metropoli tan area of Key West. I can only imagine how much money stu dents from other schools spent. The point is that we are on spring break one week out of the year. That gives all the retirees in their RV's the size of a small Mexican village the rest of the year to kick back and put bows in theirpoodle's hair. We come down to have a THE I.ANCE ADVISOR Trudy Smith STAFF WRITERS TMNKS m EDITOR Blake Wynens Bill Morris Molly Scoles Shad Luedke Grace Gibson ASST. EDITOR John Hess Laura Van Riper Elaine Thomas SPORTS EDITOR Tristy McKenney Terra McVoy Ron Bayes Laurinburg Exchange LAYOUT EDITOR Gabby Smith Elaine Thomas good time and we put a lot of money into the conununity. Perhaps I am being overly sensitive, but I am 22 years old and my friends are around the same age. We know how to be responsible and I would say that for the most part we were. No one had to tell us at 4 a.m. to quit swinging from the trees or setting the bathrooms on fire, but every one acted like that is what we had done. On more than one occasion the "camp elders" yelled at stu dents for cutting through the laun dry room to go to the restrooms, playing pick up on the golf cart which the students had paid for, and most of all, disturbing the peace, whatever that means con sidering most of us stayed in Key West when we partied or went to bed soon after quiet hours began. As if that was not enough in the "civil rights" department, a group of my female friends and I went into a bar on St. Patrick's Day. What began as a sing- along with "Irish Ed"-it makes no dif ference what his name was - ended up as a strip-a-thon between two women. Needless to say, we were completly disgusted. And it went on, bar after bar only to find Budweiser girls bending over on the stage at Sloppy Joe's, wet T- shirt contests left and right (no pun intended) and men yelling lewd comments, and on one occa sion acting one out. It gets old rather fast Why were there no male strippers any where we went? I'm joking. It just amazes me though, how a vaca tion can tum into a Roman orgy at the wave of a beer company's checkbook. Should we have to put up with all this sexism? At this point women don't really have a choice. Judging from the popular ity of the events, bent over beer ads are here to stay. Okay. Enough with the out rage. We worked rather hard on this issue of The Lance. We have little more than a skeleton crew to help us, but I think we've done a pretty good job anyway. Thanks again, Trudy for all the help you've given us. I think it's fair to say that we are more than grateful for your time and patience with us. One last thing before you have to tear your eyes away from this "riveting" column...remember to keep diose letters to Dear coming in AND cm another sub ject, check out all the fiowers in bloom-it can only mean one thing...GANZA IS ONLY 30 DAYS AWAY!
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