By: Daniel

Daniel
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:35:49 +0000

I think the students need to take the tradition back from the university. Change the day every year so they don’t know when it will happen – change it to a series of days.

The new regulations are 100% stupid, and have no merit. Police should not be messing with people at the lake. “Safety” is not what this is about – it’s about control. This tradition is supposed to belong to the students, not the University, not the faculty, and not the police.

People are becoming too complacent with the “government” (in this case the University), sticking their hands into every aspect of peoples lives. We don’t need the University protecting us from ourselves. They already participated in the destruction of the south campus night life, replacing cheap, student-budget-friendly bars and restaurants with a overpriced preppy-fied stores and overpriced restaurants. Traditions like Pappa-Joes and AC/DC-Cult night are long history due to misguided attempts to save students from themselves.

Student government members who supported the new controlled jump should be fired, or voted out. They don’t serve the students, except as modern champions of the destruction of freedom, in the name of “what’s good for us”. The students need to stand up and tell the university that’s what’s good for them is to be free to do things without the university running, or in this case ruining, everything. We don’t need a rule for everything. We don’t need to be protected from everything. We need these traditions to be owned by the participants. We need to be left alone…