Saturday, January 9, 2010

Op Ed - Jessica Wilberger

# 1. Dorm Visiting Hour
Arguement:
Visiting hours in Helaman Hall dorm rooms should be extended beyond four hours a week.

Reason:
More visiting hours will cause less disturbances in the dorms.

Claim:
If there are more visiting hours problems such as sneaking into dorms after horus would be reduced.

Assumption:
Limited visiting hours causes problems in the dorms.


# 2. Classroom etiquette
Argument:
Students should sit in the middle seats first and not leave seats between each other.
Reason:
It creates a disturbance to the teacher and the class when people are finding seats.
Claim:
1. When people leave seats between each other it makes the class look full and causes people to wander around looking for seats.
2. People climbing over people is loud and makes a scene.
Assumption: Finding seats is a problem in classes.

# 3. Taking food out of the Cannon
Argument:
Students should be able to take food out of the Cannon.
Reason:
The students pay for the food
Claim:
There is no harm in students taking a cookie or a half eaten apple with them on their way to class or back to the dorms.
Assumption:
Students pay for the food so they should be able to take it with them.






4 comments:

  1. #3 seems like a good option. I would suggest that your reason be changed or added to. You could say that students have no other means of food for snacks or such because most of the students who eat at the cannon live in the dorms, where there's no kitchen or such like that. Also, another claim could be that of food getting wasted by the Cannon Center.

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  2. Another thing thing that could possibly be added to the etiquette argument would be that people could offer to have people sit by them. What i mean is to not only make the open seats easy to get to physically, but mentally/emotionally as well. For example, some shy people may feel uncomfortable just going up to a stranger and sitting by them. Or, someone may see an open seat but then wonder if that person is saving it for someone else or something. However, if the one next to the open seat saw they were looking and motioned to them somehow, it would make finding seats easy and uncomfortable. Your topic would be a good one for everyone to read in the daily universe.

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  3. #3 The Cannon center is kind of a joke. It has descent food, but yes I agree. They totally rip you off if you try to take something out. I have another fighting example. The other day when I bought a visitors priced meal to the cannon center it was 10$. (Pretty expensive for a college student.) I bought my meal right as it was closing, after ten minutes they were putting all the food away. I was very upset considering I paid 10$ to only get 10 minutes of food.

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  4. I agree with argument 2. My biology class gets full pretty fast and sometimes there is a seat here and there but students never quite know what to do in this situation. I have even been in that situation before. I walked in to my biology class one minute before class started and practically every seat was full. There were a few open seats but all in the middle. Instead of climbing over the back or onto the laps of other students to get to the seat, I sat on the ground. I like the idea that students should start from the middle and work their way out, or sit at the very last seat on the row. Either way would be a lot more helpful.

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