Have some respect, this isn’t High School

Recently a lot of hype has been given about acts of violence, profanity, rudeness and disrespectfulness, by a group of students at Missouri Western, reportedlyall coming from one minority.

From a huge fight during one of their functions, to disrespectful behavior during the convocation, to vandalism and foul behavior in the student union, we here at the Griffon News, have to question why you are even in college.

It is not every minority student that sits in the SU that are causing problems, most students are here to learn and take the benefits they are given seriously, but the group of students that don’t have respect for this campus are causing a huge problem.

Maybe it is just a lack of maturity or lack of campus involvement.

There aren’t many nontrad students sitting on the couches yelling ‘hey bitch’across the student union to their fellow rolly backpacker, or many football players writing names on the computers.

Missouri Western is not the bathroom stall of a bar. We are a University; one that has spent a substantial amount of money giving us a student union that
we can be proud of, one that prospective students can think is beautiful, one where current students can relax. Maybe most students don’t remember the seventies looking furniture and the weird walls that used to make up the lobby of the SU. It wasn’t pretty, but lets destroy the nice things we do have to be cool and act like we are in high school.

If you are still in a high school mind set, go home. This is a place of learning. Where students who actually want a future and a good job come to improve
their life; it is not a place to just hang out with your friends and be stupid. If you’re wanting to do just that, find somewhere else to do it, maybe your hometown is a good place, where you’re not paying $5,000 a semester, or getting scholarships that people who actually want to be here could use.

During last Tuesday’s convocation, a scuffle broke out in the middle of Sam Donaldson’s speech because a student didn’t want to get off her cell phone when a
teacher asked her to. Not only did she put up a fight, other male students had to get involved, causing a huge ruckus that could be heard all the way to the stage.

We know that unless you are interested in politics or journalism, the convocation can sometimes be boring and many classes require you to go. But the faculty
doesn’t do that so they can sit around laughing because they are torturing their students, they do it so you’ll learn. Falling asleep and being stretched out on the bleachers while someone tries to educate you, is one of the rudest things imaginable. You obviously don’t want to be in school, so once again go home.

Tay Triggs has begun a campaign to talk to students about their behavior, trying very hard to try and not make this just a minority issue, and she is right in saying that this is definitely not just a black issue.

But the students who show no pride in Western have no place at this campus. A university is not a place for vandalism, constant vulgarity or fights.