Spring Break
Where is the respect?
Chris Russell
Issue date: 11/30/07 Section: Ed-Op
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Where is the respect? Where is it? Where is the respect for others, the respect for other people's property, and the respect for ourselves? Where has it gone?
The crime in Philadelphia currently stands in direct correlation to the lack of respect we have for one another. We're killing each other over arguments, arguments; and taking other people's lives because we are "mad."
Taking someone's son or daughter for personal revenge? It has become a daily occurrence and something that is childish, reprehensible and the definition of disrespectful. We're better than that.
What about the physical state of our environment today? This goes beyond the poorer sections of the city that seem to want to hold onto their perfected aesthetic balance somewhere between wasteland and squalor.
This goes to the educated, middle-class as well. On Drexel's campus, this is ever so visible in the library.
Do we as students have not the decency, self-respect, or respect for our fellow students to not pick up after ourselves? I mean, it never fails that the basement (aside from its menagerie of scents coming together to form an olfactory symphony that boggles the very brain cells) will have at least two tables and several computers strewn with empty juice bottles, plastic wrappers, chips, and other trash; this from young adults who know better.
I don't even know if there is any regulatory action that would make students see this as unacceptable behavior, but more importantly, rules like this should not have to be implemented to dissuade someone from not performing a basic function of living in a civilized society. We need to respect property and other people by leaving a place as good as or better than we found it. I could say the clichéd quip: "Would you do this at your house?" but the sad truth is that most college students' apartments are filthy, or perhaps to describe it in a way to evoke the condition more explicitly: a hot mess.
It has more to do with being a responsible adult, doing what is right, and holding yourself to a high standard. You're better than that.
The crime in Philadelphia currently stands in direct correlation to the lack of respect we have for one another. We're killing each other over arguments, arguments; and taking other people's lives because we are "mad."
Taking someone's son or daughter for personal revenge? It has become a daily occurrence and something that is childish, reprehensible and the definition of disrespectful. We're better than that.
What about the physical state of our environment today? This goes beyond the poorer sections of the city that seem to want to hold onto their perfected aesthetic balance somewhere between wasteland and squalor.
This goes to the educated, middle-class as well. On Drexel's campus, this is ever so visible in the library.
Do we as students have not the decency, self-respect, or respect for our fellow students to not pick up after ourselves? I mean, it never fails that the basement (aside from its menagerie of scents coming together to form an olfactory symphony that boggles the very brain cells) will have at least two tables and several computers strewn with empty juice bottles, plastic wrappers, chips, and other trash; this from young adults who know better.
I don't even know if there is any regulatory action that would make students see this as unacceptable behavior, but more importantly, rules like this should not have to be implemented to dissuade someone from not performing a basic function of living in a civilized society. We need to respect property and other people by leaving a place as good as or better than we found it. I could say the clichéd quip: "Would you do this at your house?" but the sad truth is that most college students' apartments are filthy, or perhaps to describe it in a way to evoke the condition more explicitly: a hot mess.
It has more to do with being a responsible adult, doing what is right, and holding yourself to a high standard. You're better than that.
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