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Vanity shouldn't
come before school
By Alex Roman
Daily Forty-Niner
As certain as it
is that we will be stressed by long book lines, petitioning
classes and finding parking, it is just as certain that we
will become agitated with our vain classmates that surround
us.
Let's face the
facts: Some of us are here to learn and some of us it seems
are here to enhance our social lives.
Case in point:
The person sitting next to you in class who refuses to turn
their cell phone off, which inevitably rings in the middle
of lecture or, even worse, in the middle of a test.
Technology continues
to do new and fascinating things for our communicative needs,
but at some point common courtesy and common sense has been
thrown out the window by most of the student body at Cal State
Long Beach.
Some students need
to be reminded that this is a learning environment. At the
very least, they should take it seriously while they are in
class for those of us who actually pay for our own education
and are interested in attaining it without disruptions.
But time and time
again, students around us don't seem to be taking school seriously
enough. Sadly, we have all grown to accept the daily interruption
of our classes or our quiet time between classes.
Add to the irritating
nuisance of cell phones the fact that students dress like
they are going to star in a music video, a porn movie or are
ready to go out clubbing and you understand why it is sometimes
frustrating to walk around campus in peace.
Honestly what is
the great significance to getting dressed up and coming to
school?
Seriously, some
people wear things around campus that can only be seen on
some god-awful music video, which, contrary to popular opinion,
is NOT real life. Nobody should walk around with towels around
their necks, or with their ass half hanging out while trying
to walk normal in 3-inch high platform shoes, which any girl
will tell you are neither comfortable or practical.
The way people
dress is probably more ridiculous than people using the telephone.
Think of it this way, — people spend hundreds of dollars
for the "in” clothes or designer and a few months later
they are already out of style. That should tell you something.
The time has come
to realize how ridiculous some of us look and how irritating
it is for your little fashionable phone to ring in class and
realize that teachers don't care how cool you look or how
bitchin' your phone is. No, they are only interested in what
you got upstairs and eventually you will learn that so is
everybody else.
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