It's time to make this campus healthy for everyone I feel as though it is time to readdress the idea of making this campus smoke-free. Walking to class with smoke in my face from the person ahead is not my choice. Walking out of class into a cloud of smoke from the people 15 feet away from the entry to the building is not my choice.
Regulating smokers will not improve campus atmosphere Smoking bans are lucrative and seem like a great idea at first. This is why every state in the union has some sort of smoking ban in place, whether it is statewide or city-specific. Although I have not had a cigarette in roughly three months, I did smoke cigarettes for about two years.
Think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts. I am not trying to fly or anything, just survive this last week of classes. Every semester I think the same thing, "Why am I doing this?" I sit for the umpteenth hour in front of my laptop screen, vision blurred, fingers cramped, and legs atrophied, surrounded by a fortress of research books taller than me.
What happened to this, ladies? I go on facebook and find this quote on countless girls profiles, followed by statements like, "look mom, I'm a drunken slut," next to "I am single, and I'm gonna enjoy it because it doesn't mean I'm not good enough for anyone, it means no one is good enough for me.
*Props to being finished with classes. X Drops to exam week. *Props to Big Brown for winning Saturday's Kentucky Derby X Drops to having to euthanise Eight Belles after she broke both front ankles *Props to Iron Man for scoring more than $100 million
The week of April 28th was Cover the Uninsured Week. Cover the Uninsured Week is a national effort that seeks to bring attention to the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance. Statistics show that 47 million Americans, including over nine million children, lack health care coverage.
These last few weeks of the semester have been quite emotional for me. I will soon be left behind to linger at UW-L for one more year while I bid farewell to a great number of graduating friends with whom I've inhabited this campus for the past four years.