Our
View: ‘Don’t nobody give
up on us just yet’
Summer
is almost here.
The waves are calling.
Fun summer jobs or internships are lined up. Kids are moving out of the dorms.
Graduation announcements are being mailed and hundreds of chairs for the ceremony
will be soon be set up.
Another semester has ended, either too quickly or too slowly, and by this point
most of us, professors included, are burned out. Academia has gotten the greater
part of our energies for another year. But “don’t nobody give up
on us just yet.”
Finals are this week and they deserve our best efforts to end the semester
strong. Consequently, professors should grade those efforts fairly and justly.
Everybody needs to do their part in this grade scheme.
But what about after finals? What about after the books are closed and sold
off for a few bucks? What about after the
scantron has been filled out and pencil tips are dull from filling out answers?
Why, it’s time to party!
But party how? Party hardy? Party like it’s 1999? Rock out with your
cock out?
All are viable options for kids today and inevitably, many of those options
will involve drinking and debauchery, for better or for worse.
But do not fret. Do not be dazed and confused. There are safe ways to enjoy
your fast times at Cal State Long Beach.
For one thing, don’t drink and drive. We can’t stress this enough.
Last week, one of the Daily Forty-Niner’s opinion columnists wrote about
how she got hit by a drunk driver. The accident totaled her car, as seen by
the photo that ran alongside her article. Luckily for her, she walked away
from the ordeal with a tale to tell instead of funeral arrangements.
Learn from her story. Learn from those endless infomercials telling you to
do the right thing. Please, designate a sober driver with a valid license and
a penchant for obeying traffic signals.
Second, debauchery happens, even to the best of us. It happens especially around
open liquor bottles and cans of cheap beer piled around the upcoming post-finals
parties.
And after hours of studying, it’s times like these you learn to love
again. It’s times like these you learn to live again. But don’t
go too far. You’ve got to be a fighter.
Take the advice given to you in the popular general education Category E, capstone,
human diversity (that’s the one with a diamond) class Health Science
425I, Human Sexuality and Sex Education.
Or, if you didn’t take that class, the boys of Cal State Long Beach can
heed the advice of Van Wilder: Don’t be a fool. Wrap your tool.
And if you’re not a boy, use the equivalent safety measure. Both are
available nationwide, even in Long Beach.
With that last piece of advice, the Daily Forty-Niner wishes you all well.
“
Good night, and good luck.”
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