Doherty, dumb freshman and dining hall activism
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Unlike most letters to the editor, I will not try to use big words in an attempt to make myself look smart in front of my fellow classmates. Instead I'll get right to it. I have three reasons for writing:
1) Freshmen: STOP WRITING LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. You are FRESHMEN. Read the letters of people who have been on campus long enough to know where the bathrooms are in the classroom buildings. While you are at it, learn when not to start the wave at football games. Hint: Unless we have a higher number than the other team on the scoreboard, there is no reason to do the wave.
2) Biology department: Clone a football version of basketball coach Matt Doherty. If the athletic department wants to see an example of the type of person who should be leading our football team, they should look no further than one of the other offices in the JACC. Doherty earns the respect of his players simply by demanding the effort that the fans deserve to see. If this were the case with the football coaching staff, we would not be hanging on the possibilities of playing in a bowl game named after an Internet site.
3) Clean Plate People: How much money was used to print out the flyers that I used for a napkin in the dining hall last night? My suggestion is to take that money and buy those poor people food instead of worrying about snatching my half-eaten apple or muffin. When I go to the dining hall, I generally take four or five plates of food in the hopes that one of them will have something edible on it. The way I see it, if I won't eat it, they won't either.
Also, who are you kidding when you say, "The food we didn't eat or touch could have fed a hungry person in South Bend?" Correction: The food we do not touch is served to us the next day with a different name, and please don't fool yourself into thinking that the cost of a meal plan will suddenly go down next year either. The cost of the meal plan will go up next year regardless of whether or not I grab a burger and a taco tomorrow as a backup plan just in case the Shepherd's Pie doesn't quite do it for me.
Blake Kirkman
Sophomore
Keenan Hall
November 17, 1999
All Viewpoint Stories for Friday, November 19, 1999
