2008 Woodie Awards
Semester in review
Issue date: 12/3/07 Section: Op-Ed
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It is hard to believe another semester is almost over. First-year students are probably wondering how time has passed so quickly, wondering how it seems like a few days ago they were sitting in an orientation session or enjoying their first moments away from home. Second- and third-year students are probably looking over returned exams and papers, and tabulating their cumulative GPA. Fourth-, fifth- (and sadly) sixth-year students are likely a bit nervous about being one semester away from no more summer vacations, no more spring breaks and no more irresponsible nights out until 3 o'clock in the morning. Whatever the end of this semester means for you personally, we trust that you'll make the final push in stride and do what it takes to move forward successfully.
This semester, the university-wide focus seemed to be on campus safety and security. Students couldn't turn a corner without seeing a campus safety alert posted. Chief Bicking addressed Student Government Association to discuss the failure of a blue light safety pole the night a bomb threat was called in for Main Hall. Walking alone or down an unlit street at night was tantamount to holding a sign up to thieves: "I'm vulnerable and carrying a wallet with $200 in it!"
At The Quad, we covered these events and more. We look forward to having a police beat back in our news section to alert students of all police activity on campus.
This semester, we wrote about the Residence Life & Housing office, and their new policies that seemed less helpful to students living on campus. We wrote about the attendance, or lack thereof, at September 11 vigils and memorials, and pondered whether or not people have moved on. We tackled campus safety in the wake of another campus shooting, this time down the road at Delaware State University. We want to be sure that if we have the disturbing and highly unfortunate duty of being the next school featured on CNN for this very reason, that our safety is not a blunder. We want to be sure that it is taken more seriously than anything else at this university. Anti-abortion group Repent America graced our campus with their presence in October. With them, they brought everything but their tact, as people with tact don't disgust other people with 6-foot tall posters of aborted fetuses. The semester wouldn't be complete without an editorial regarding our information technology department and our foodservice provider. Students experienced internet access that was painstakingly slow-even by WCU standards. Students also experienced increased prices and new restrictions on what their meal plans covered. Some students experienced both slow internet access and meal plan restrictions at the same time! Finally, we wrote about the "campus telephone directory" and its inexplicable existence.
This semester, the university-wide focus seemed to be on campus safety and security. Students couldn't turn a corner without seeing a campus safety alert posted. Chief Bicking addressed Student Government Association to discuss the failure of a blue light safety pole the night a bomb threat was called in for Main Hall. Walking alone or down an unlit street at night was tantamount to holding a sign up to thieves: "I'm vulnerable and carrying a wallet with $200 in it!"
At The Quad, we covered these events and more. We look forward to having a police beat back in our news section to alert students of all police activity on campus.
This semester, we wrote about the Residence Life & Housing office, and their new policies that seemed less helpful to students living on campus. We wrote about the attendance, or lack thereof, at September 11 vigils and memorials, and pondered whether or not people have moved on. We tackled campus safety in the wake of another campus shooting, this time down the road at Delaware State University. We want to be sure that if we have the disturbing and highly unfortunate duty of being the next school featured on CNN for this very reason, that our safety is not a blunder. We want to be sure that it is taken more seriously than anything else at this university. Anti-abortion group Repent America graced our campus with their presence in October. With them, they brought everything but their tact, as people with tact don't disgust other people with 6-foot tall posters of aborted fetuses. The semester wouldn't be complete without an editorial regarding our information technology department and our foodservice provider. Students experienced internet access that was painstakingly slow-even by WCU standards. Students also experienced increased prices and new restrictions on what their meal plans covered. Some students experienced both slow internet access and meal plan restrictions at the same time! Finally, we wrote about the "campus telephone directory" and its inexplicable existence.
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