I know that you think yellow journalism gets readers, but criminalizing the SGA for something that the administration is doing only makes you look like an idiot when everyone finds out, which they will, and discredits the paper (if it has any credit left, which I question weekly).

Let us look a a quote from another piece published by the Griffon News in November of 2011, “Life is a game about you, not the other players. You can’t change the decisions other people will make, only your own. Why would you want to change their decisions? You’re not learning anything from it and neither are they.” Now, think about this: the administration will change the decisions that you make if they ban smoking on campus, your choice becomes to do it on the sly and risk a fine (going out of your way to hide or out to your car), quit smoking, or go for a significant portion of the day. Now, this quote was taken from an article that was bashing Occupiers for trying to protest for better conditions (money out of politics that limits the people’s voices, working and wage laws, foreclosures, etc.), but the quote says that we should not fight for what we believe in, just do something ourselves, and allow policies to be passed down upon us.

If this was a student government bill, students could change it, they did in fact. However it is not, and the only way to change it is to protest the administration’s move, which the Griffon News’ article strongly declares a negative act. “Traditional students just lack an understanding of how the real world operates.” In the real world, governments are putting smoking bans in place.

Once again, students have failed to see the hand of the administration at work, and have piled the blame onto those who have no actual say. Come on guys, wake up.