2008 Woodie Awards
Friday Observer
Issue date: 3/2/07 Section: Opinion
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I take over as the Friday Observer in, as they say they best of times and the worst of times. Classes are good, the Pierce food is bad, the Howe building is still funneling wind. A new SGA is in office and there are still hopes for some actual movement from those most recently elected. Biz Techs are still laughed at by the engineers, engineers are laughed at by the Biz Techs who will one day employ them.
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. That's a Mister Rogers' line. Mister Rogers used to tell us stories of the "Neighborhood of Make-Believe." There was King Friday XIII and all the other denizens of the tiny little country. My brother and I used to try to get into that place but we never managed it.
At least, my brother hasn't managed it yet. I feel that good old Stevens Tech is our "Neighborhood of Make-Believe," our "Never-Never Land" and we're all lost boys caught up in our games. It's a wonderful life- second street from Frat Row and straight on 'till morning.
Times like this, I think it's necessary to have a commentary- an observer.
My first observation: Pierce. Ok, so there's some new "Ambiance" coming to the cafeteria? Lovely. New food stations? Go for it. But here's the question, my fellow Techies, and no one has given us a satisfactory answer:
Where does Midnight Breakfast go? Where else can you fit that many people on this campus- Bissinger? You think the Athletic Department is going to give us the gym? Probably not. Ask the Indian Undergraduate Association- they had a lovely event planned for Friday March 2nd in the gym. Last I heard, when the basketball team won their game earlier in the week, they got the boot from the gym so a conference game could be held. I hope stuff got rearranged so they could hold the event, but that wasn't clear at press time.
So…when they take away Pierce where do we go? Where do we gather to hear comedy nights or to hear bands or to hold meetings with more than 50 people? Where do the sororities hold their pref parties? Does anybody care that we're being kicked out, without so much as having our opinion asked, of the only remotely large, public room on campus?
Demand from your SGA answers. Find out who is to blame and stop it. Ask questions, find a compromise, do something or you just may find yourselves hungry during finals.
You're in duck country, ladies and gentlemen, and it just might be hunting season.
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. That's a Mister Rogers' line. Mister Rogers used to tell us stories of the "Neighborhood of Make-Believe." There was King Friday XIII and all the other denizens of the tiny little country. My brother and I used to try to get into that place but we never managed it.
At least, my brother hasn't managed it yet. I feel that good old Stevens Tech is our "Neighborhood of Make-Believe," our "Never-Never Land" and we're all lost boys caught up in our games. It's a wonderful life- second street from Frat Row and straight on 'till morning.
Times like this, I think it's necessary to have a commentary- an observer.
My first observation: Pierce. Ok, so there's some new "Ambiance" coming to the cafeteria? Lovely. New food stations? Go for it. But here's the question, my fellow Techies, and no one has given us a satisfactory answer:
Where does Midnight Breakfast go? Where else can you fit that many people on this campus- Bissinger? You think the Athletic Department is going to give us the gym? Probably not. Ask the Indian Undergraduate Association- they had a lovely event planned for Friday March 2nd in the gym. Last I heard, when the basketball team won their game earlier in the week, they got the boot from the gym so a conference game could be held. I hope stuff got rearranged so they could hold the event, but that wasn't clear at press time.
So…when they take away Pierce where do we go? Where do we gather to hear comedy nights or to hear bands or to hold meetings with more than 50 people? Where do the sororities hold their pref parties? Does anybody care that we're being kicked out, without so much as having our opinion asked, of the only remotely large, public room on campus?
Demand from your SGA answers. Find out who is to blame and stop it. Ask questions, find a compromise, do something or you just may find yourselves hungry during finals.
You're in duck country, ladies and gentlemen, and it just might be hunting season.
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