2008 Woodie Awards
Evolve your consciousness
Nicholas Bravo
Issue date: 4/18/07 Section: Opinion
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When I read in The Lumberjack about the stink bomb scare due to disagreements from students and administrators, it made me feel ashamed to be an Humboldt State alumnus. It also made me angry that someone would stoop to the level of a belligerent animal and attempt to bully administration into doing things they are already trying to do.
Humboldt State is supposedly filled with intelligent, enlightened people who are respectful of diversity. I see little if anything that backs up that idea. What I see is a dying campus that is part of a dying educational system. What I see are administrators such as President Rollin Richmond desperately trying to please an ungrateful student body and trying to steer Humboldt State in the right direction.
I see four major problems with this campus that need to be rectified in order to save Humboldt State as well as the entire CSU system. Firstly, Humboldt State needs to focus on its academic strengths and thereby have more masters and doctorate programs in fields that actually matter, such as nursing, teaching, computer sciences and business. I'd give 10 ethnic diversity lecturers for one competent nursing or teaching professor.
Secondly, the drug culture is the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. It's no secret that two-thirds of the students who come here do it for the weed and because they know that at Humboldt State they can smoke a bowl an hour before class, show up for a test in their pajamas, and no one will care. Yes, marijuana is the cash crop of Humboldt's underground economy, but I see very few students that can keep from being controlled by any substance, legal or illegal.
Which brings me to my third point. There is an insidious lack of professionalism and an overabundance of intellectual slumming here at Humboldt State. College is training for behavior in the real world; if you cannot be somewhat professional and rational at this point in your life then please take a few years off and work in the real world so that you can learn some core values such as personal responsibility, self respect, self control, and respect for others.
Humboldt State is supposedly filled with intelligent, enlightened people who are respectful of diversity. I see little if anything that backs up that idea. What I see is a dying campus that is part of a dying educational system. What I see are administrators such as President Rollin Richmond desperately trying to please an ungrateful student body and trying to steer Humboldt State in the right direction.
I see four major problems with this campus that need to be rectified in order to save Humboldt State as well as the entire CSU system. Firstly, Humboldt State needs to focus on its academic strengths and thereby have more masters and doctorate programs in fields that actually matter, such as nursing, teaching, computer sciences and business. I'd give 10 ethnic diversity lecturers for one competent nursing or teaching professor.
Secondly, the drug culture is the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. It's no secret that two-thirds of the students who come here do it for the weed and because they know that at Humboldt State they can smoke a bowl an hour before class, show up for a test in their pajamas, and no one will care. Yes, marijuana is the cash crop of Humboldt's underground economy, but I see very few students that can keep from being controlled by any substance, legal or illegal.
Which brings me to my third point. There is an insidious lack of professionalism and an overabundance of intellectual slumming here at Humboldt State. College is training for behavior in the real world; if you cannot be somewhat professional and rational at this point in your life then please take a few years off and work in the real world so that you can learn some core values such as personal responsibility, self respect, self control, and respect for others.
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