Whittier College students are no strangers to campus-wide emails from various campus organizations or the administration. Once in a while, Whittier College Campus Safety will send out an electronic invective to students urging them to take a greater stake in the security of the school and its residence halls.
Yes, it is the job of Campus Safety to keep students safe on campus, but only to a degree. The string of recent crimes on campus has raised the question of what we as a school can do to improve the safety of our college campus. Many students point to Campus Safety and say that they should be doing more and that the school should be held accountable for keeping students and their belongings safe at all times.
Even with a rough economy there is always something that can be donated to the Haiti relief fund. With the devastation in Haiti after numerous earthquakes, some as big as 7.0 magnitude, there has been much advertisement of relief funds. The problem here is that many of the organizations ask for money.
Let's face it; we have all been hazed sometime in our life. Maybe not the insane, scary, forced drinking up in a forest to get into a fraternity or even anything that was remotely dangerous in the first place - but we have all done things that have made us feel uncomfortable or that have taken us out of our security zone and humiliated us, both in and out of school.
For those of you that may not know, Moodle possesses a new module: teachers can now utilize Moodle to log attendance. The problem I find with this is the underlying idea that Whittier College is not moving away from its stance that, for some reason, students are not responsible enough to manage their time and learning, even though it is on the students' individual dimes.