Grow Up Or Get Out

It is that time of the year again, folks. The time of year where the blatant and disgusting disrespect that students show for our school and its property pisses off The Clock office enough to write an editorial about it. Take, for example, the flood plain that Mary Lyon Residence Hall has become over the past few weeks. Drunken residents playing like monkeys on water pipes causing them to burst, tying rags around the sprinklers and then setting them on fire, taking the faucets off the sinks in the bathrooms so the water would shoot straight up and go everywhere, and the most recent fiasco involving an excess of water that has ruined one of the walls in the Residential Director’s apartment. And Mary Lyon is just where it is happening this year. Vandalism happens every year here on campus – it happens to cars, buildings, benches, windows, poles, lights, you name it, it has been defaced. Why the incredible disrespect for property at this school? It is not to say that the defacing of public or private property is a rarity on other campuses or anywhere else for that matter. But it speaks to the maturity level of the students and to the reputation of our university when senseless acts of vandalism occur.We are a university; we are a higher-level institution of learning. The students need to hold up to their end of the bargain, and that means not acting like ridiculous high-school students. We’ve been there, done that and most of us have moved on from those days of lesser intelligence – but as always it is the few bad apples the spoil the barrel for us all. In the end, where does that leave you, as a student and eventual graduate of Plymouth State University?It leaves you graduating from a university that is not known for their impressive education program, their phenomenal meteorology program, or their incredible theatre program, but from a university that got on the news for Red Sox riots and the thousands of dollars of property damage that was done. Those of you that engage in these immature acts are not only devaluing your own education, but also those of us who stayed home and did not do a darn thing. Do us all a favor – either grow the heck up or get off the campus because those of us who are working hard and getting an education here do not need you ruining the good name of this institution. Go out, have a good time; most of the campus seems to figure out how to do it without destroying any property. It is about time that you figured out how to do that.