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Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Decision 2004
Goshen College's President's council chooses required four year residency.

Fuck them. They don't need me. They don't want me. They don't want you. andrea cook stated "we want students coming here who want to live on campus." That's not me. That's probably not you. yes, they may have more students enrolling here. but they're going to have a hell of a time keeping those students when they realize that alcohol isn't satin's juice and they really would like to get shit-faced every once in a while. Smokers are also leaving. No wants to have their pseudo off campus house be the side of a building when they need a smoke. It's fucking cold during the year here. No one wants that. But hell, at least it's a community builder. so we've gotten rid of the drinkers the smokers. who else? the cheap-ass bastards and the not-rich-as-fuck kids! yes they're leaving too. I like eating hot dogs for lunch everyday. that's a 9 cent meal! but a meal at the rot.... um, that's like $7 a meal. add the cost of an apartment, I think it comes to something like $60 a day just to live. I can't pay that, I don't want to. wether you can't pay or you just don't want to, those students are leaving too. so who have we eliminated now, the smokers, the drinkers, and those who live simply. Next we can count on losing anyone who care's about having a stake in the institution that they're a part of. this whole process has obviously shown that they don't care about present students opinions. fuck them. "we want this institution, even if it's only non/smoker/drinkers/spenders, to be around in 20 years." ha! that's terrible. Who the hell wants to give alumni donations to a college of apathetic conformists?? not I. Those kids shouldn't even be going to college. they should become managers at some large corporation or work for the government...wait, that's the same thing. I don't want to support conformity and I'm not going to.

So who's left? Every hypocritical mennonite who professes the values of living simply so others may simply live while they're living in an apartment their rich pastor mom is paying for while our so-called "diverse" population (minorities, people from outside the US, the poor, etc) are living in the crappy-ass miller and kratz because they can't live with their family who is not in goshen or they can't afford to live in the fucking fancy apartments. Goshen will be left with a population of rich little white mennonites from mennonite schools who don't see anything wrong with nice apartments of giving money to Sodexho. Those kids will happily "give back" to the college in alumni donations. Why, because they don't like living on 5 hot dogs a week with the occasional shower and clothes that were never purchased.

argh. so what the hell do we do?

I haven't the foggiest. I really want to write a letter to the college saying that they've killed our culture and are creating a homogenous culture of kids who like to have soft-serve ice cream available to them at every meal. fatty fatsters. I also think that if I truly cared about this institution then I should accept the decision as being for the best, or at least, that our decision makers made the best decision they could and not send nasty letters to the president's council. Perhaps a massive release of energy is needed. like a good game of anarchist anarchist cop.
posted by meg @ 9:06 PM

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