Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Updates filled with disappointment in our school but We WILL overcome!
We have started the tidbits of our project that will lead up to our big movie night. I must say that some of the answers we are getting in the survey's and comments thus far surprise me greatly. I am learning that not as many people as I thought are unaware of the problems, but there is still work to do before we overcome the issues that are before us. The survey process is going very well. I think that the results will be quite enlightening. We put up posters in some of the vital places on campus in hopes that we will get a good audience. The disappointment that I reference in the title of this blog comes from our comment box. Today, I went to go re-tape the poster in the dining hall to find that it and our comment box had been removed. I promptly asked to speak to the manager about it. Before we even submitted this idea we were sure to get permission from a manager to place our comment box in the dining hall. That certain manager gave us permission to place the box in there for one week. When I told the head manager this he informed me that he did not know of this agreement and that there was no way that we could leave our box there. He told me that the company has "sensitive feelings" about what is placed in their establishment. I wanted to tell him that the students have "sensitive feelings" about what goes into our stomachs. This tells our group that the dining hall is afraid to see what the students really think. Because they said that the only way that we could do a comment box as we planned is if THEY run it. I don't want them running it as i know that some people have had negative comments removed from their so called comment board. We will overcome this obstacle! We will be going around while we eat there and still ask the students for their comments or maybe set up something outside of the cafeteria to show the cafeteria's disregard of the student's feelings. The manager said we could still give him the results. I have learned that you must fight for what you believe in, and I will not succumb to their level.
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I certainly understand where you guys are coming from. We encountered someone exactly like that on campus. We were denied access to the SSC Conference, IM Gym, the OLD Gym, and the Lake House - until one of our members knew someone on the "inside."
To be perfectly honest - I really think we as a class should write a letter to the school and inform them about the problems we have faced since starting this month. I seriously feel like we all have encountered some type of problem... I personally think the school president should be informed about what all we have faced in order to get flipping feminist activism out on our campus. I never knew that being a student had so many rules -- I thought we were suppose to be rule breakers?!
Hopefully this story will show the administrators at our school that the dinning hall is full of B.S! Seriously, are the managers working at the dinning hall that scared of what people will say about the food they feed us that they need to monitor the comments people say. "O I don't like this comment about how greasy the food is, let me just throw it away." Yep, that is much easer than dealing with the problem. I am so sick of the dinning hall, you have no idea. The food is so bad that they need a rule that says freshmen and sophomores must have a meal plan, because they know that no one will actually eat there if it wasn’t already paid for. Ok… I’m done ranting for now. :P
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