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Arbiter Editorial Board
Issue date: 3/5/07 Section: Opinion
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Respect is a word often thrown around flippantly. Your mother and father tell you to respect your elders. Your teachers and managers demand your respect and your friends and lovers ask for your respect sometimes above all else.
With all of the respect floating around, one can begin to get overwhelmed. Students, especially now, are over worked and low on time for anything other than school, work or homework.
Why then should students take the time out of their busy lives to spend on a small aspect like respect?
This board believes the ideology of respect is important, most of all respect for someone else - you. It is worth piling more onto your plate, and we call for students to push the limits of what they can be and achieve.
Question why you are here at Boise State and what you are doing with the education presented you. Just learning material and regurgitating what you have heard may get you a passing grade.
If you are especially talented you might get above average grades but university life is not all about passing. This experience is about life, in order to set you up for later accomplishments. Dive into the inner workings of the university with an open mind and all your energy.
This is a commuter school and too often do people come and go, faceless through the years and falling through the cracks. You may see them in the parking lots, racing for a parking spot or rushing through the halls to class.
These students might not look up or even notice you are there. They leave the school, unnoticed by the administration or their fellow students.
Change this typical notion of what it means to be a Boise State student. Come together and rally behind what you think is right and just. Respect yourself and your own opinion. Do not simply glance at what is going on around campus, float through and come out in the end with a piece of paper.
That paper may guarantee you a place in the workforce. It might even make you some good money someday, but it will not buy you happiness. At some point you will have to get involved and become responsible for your own destiny. There will come a time when your heart and mind must fully engulf themselves in the tasks at hand.
Why not begin the process right here and now while there is still time to practice? Move away from the stigma of an uninvolved college student and go beyond being average. Get onto Blackboard Monday, March 4 and Tuesday, March 6 and vote for your ASBSU representatives, president and vice president.
With all of the respect floating around, one can begin to get overwhelmed. Students, especially now, are over worked and low on time for anything other than school, work or homework.
Why then should students take the time out of their busy lives to spend on a small aspect like respect?
This board believes the ideology of respect is important, most of all respect for someone else - you. It is worth piling more onto your plate, and we call for students to push the limits of what they can be and achieve.
Question why you are here at Boise State and what you are doing with the education presented you. Just learning material and regurgitating what you have heard may get you a passing grade.
If you are especially talented you might get above average grades but university life is not all about passing. This experience is about life, in order to set you up for later accomplishments. Dive into the inner workings of the university with an open mind and all your energy.
This is a commuter school and too often do people come and go, faceless through the years and falling through the cracks. You may see them in the parking lots, racing for a parking spot or rushing through the halls to class.
These students might not look up or even notice you are there. They leave the school, unnoticed by the administration or their fellow students.
Change this typical notion of what it means to be a Boise State student. Come together and rally behind what you think is right and just. Respect yourself and your own opinion. Do not simply glance at what is going on around campus, float through and come out in the end with a piece of paper.
That paper may guarantee you a place in the workforce. It might even make you some good money someday, but it will not buy you happiness. At some point you will have to get involved and become responsible for your own destiny. There will come a time when your heart and mind must fully engulf themselves in the tasks at hand.
Why not begin the process right here and now while there is still time to practice? Move away from the stigma of an uninvolved college student and go beyond being average. Get onto Blackboard Monday, March 4 and Tuesday, March 6 and vote for your ASBSU representatives, president and vice president.
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Jason Denizac
posted 3/05/07 @ 12:28 AM MST
Oy. First of all, Monday is March 5th. Second of all, voting is on Wednesday the 7th and Thursday the 8th. Sorry for all the confusion!
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