Politics

Even if you do not agree with the candidates on a single issue. You still have to agree with the fact that this presidential and the past presidential election have and will be good for are country. No, no I'm not saying the results of the last election were desirable in anyway. But we had one of the highest turnouts to last years presidential election and the odds are the turnout for this election will be even higher. It is about time that people started taking part in the presidential election. After all we are electing the most powerful person in the country. we should have more than a minority of the country taking part in it. Hopefully that even in the next elections that are not so full of excitement and history we will be able to sustain the enthusiasm for the election

Room Temperature

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I agree with Beth it is impossible for the school to try and accomidate all the students living in the residence halls. Students have other options to them. They could live in Emerson that has AC if they are not able to take this hot weather which is only in the 70s by the way. At night it cools down and is very breeezy. Are students really that lazy to simply open and close there window. If you get hot open it, and if your cold close it. Also most students have fans on campus. If you get hot simpy open your windown and turn on the fan. That cools down the room quite well. It is impossible for the school to be able to please every student. If they make the rooms colder students will complain about how cold they are

SASP

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I understand the need for SASP, but not in the capacity that it is used. I believe that they should be more of a safety force rather than more of a want to be pathetic police force. If SASP simply went out on patrols making sure that there are no passed out students or students being harmed around campus they would get a lot more done. If students needed any help or anything they would be more willing to contact SASP when in trouble. SASP needs to realize that students are in college, yes they are going to drink, yes they are going to party. Just because they choose not to, does not mean they should ruin it for other students. The cops on campus know students are going to drink and party to and are pretty lenient with students. So why does SASP not understand this??

I believe in our teachers

Why does the New York State Board of Education require all classes to have finals. That is just kind of ridiculous. I believe that if the board got rid of this silly little requirement the majority of teachers would still give finals if they thought that it was in the best interest of the students ability to learn the subject. But face it there are just some classes were finals are not really needed. For example a writing class. If you are just writing papers, what would you be tested on in a final.....??? Glad to see you are as stumped as I am on that one. I'm taking 5 classes and only have one real final. I have two presentations, one take home test, one finals worth half a test grade(we took 5 tests in that class so that final is worthless) and finally one real final in math. The State Board of Education does not mandate how a teacher is to grade there classes. They do not require a certain amount of tests or quizzes. So why should they require a final. This is simply a case of the man trying to keep us down.

End of the year

Wow it is hard to believe it, the school year is almost over. In less than three weeks I will be on a train home. I remember back when I was a 5th grader in elementary school about to move on to middle school thinking wow these years have gone by so fast. I rember having the exact same thoughts during my middle school graduation ceremony and my high-school graduation ceremony. It is kind of exciting and scary at the same time to realize just how fast the next three years of college will go by. After that it is on to the real world. Job, rent, and no more being able to do whatever you want all the time. At the same time though it will be exciting to start your adult life. I realize the most important thing is to just enjoy the college experience as much as possible

More Weather

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I totally agree. One nice bonus is that we actually think the beautiful warm 55 degree weather were having, actually feels warm and beautiful. Although I gotta say I would rather be able to consider 55 degree weather cold. I guess it is nice to try and find a good side to having winter weather like the whole year. You need to be able to find positives to survive in the weather we have up here. I heard all the horror stories before I came up here about how bad the weather was and how it last soooooooo llllooonngg. I dismiseed all of them as horror stories, but Imust say after living through it and proudly surviing it, the stories were true. Over spring break it was nice to be able to go home and have 65 and sunny weather. I was able to wear shorts outside. I had not been able to do that in so long, all my friends thought I was crazy when I told them. That, that was the first time I had worn shorts outside since the summer

signing up for classes

It is time for the school to change the way that kids register for classes. Currently it is a free for all method with all the students from each grade trying to sign in at 7am and picking there classes. A few problems with that are, are excellent server Homerconnect cant handle all that traffic. And it randomly boots kids off. Also there are certain classes that students are required to take at a certain time. Are wonderful school has not figured out that if X amount of students has to take a certain class all at the same time that they need that many spots in the class. Yes, yes I know it seems pretty simple, and it is. Once again students in the business school are forced to beg teachers to get overrrides for Financial Accounting because the bright people who plan out how many sections will be taught did not have the bright idea to look up how many students were required to take it. But it is okay, simple algebra can be pretty hard some time.