 |
 |
Editor:
This message is directed at all students who are employed, or like I, unemployed and facing debts that are at times innumerable for me to pay.
I was in the Harvill Building attending a class and I sat down my backpack on the ground near my seat. To my surprise and great dismay, there was a drink left in a cup on the ground which tipped over at the beginning of class and by the end of class soaked through my backpack. It damaged 300 pages of my $30 plus textbook. Naturally, the last 300 pages I need to read for my final got soaked!
To say I am greatly upset is an understatement. I am very mad to the point of tearing something or someone apart!! It abhors me to know that someone was so careless and irresponsible as to leave a drink under a chair even if that person honestly forgot it there. You may say that it was an honest accident. All students, however, were told in the beginning of the semester not to bring in food or drink into the newly refinished rooms. The drink did not belong under the seat or in the room!! I don't know about other students, but I don't have the money to pay for new books.
I appreciate all who offered to help me. You are truly models of "good Samaritans." What you must understand is that this has the potential of being worse. The drink could have hit a library book which is costlier and hard to replace; it could have hit one of those $100 dollar leather backpacks instead of my cheap one, or it could have hit your textbooks!!
I am positive that this has happened before, and it will happen again to some other unsuspecting student. Why take the chance of trashing our classrooms in a few years if it can be avoided. The university is not going to pay for new carpet or new anything again. Don't assume they have that kind of money. We should follow the rules, especially with drinks because they have the potential for these kinds of disasters.
I spent one or more hours separating 300 pages and blow-drying them. Don't let it happen again. If you must bring them in the class, please pay special attention to not leave them and think about what happened to me. My message, however, is to follow policy and throw out your drinks before entering class.
Gary J. Martin
senior majoring in Spanish
|
|
|