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The first thing you do at college is attend the orientation, where you
learn what to do and what not to do. You are told that there is a zero
tolerance policy, you are told that you may NOT drink on campus, and
they make it seem as if you are going to be charged with a felony if
you get caught smoking weed. It may seem like the colleges are
concerned with the health, safety, and welfare of their students, but
in reality, colleges are sending mixed signals.
Colleges around the United States like to be thought of as
institutions concerned primarily with educating their students. While
this is true, it is a simple fact of life that colleges are also
businesses. They are responsible for supporting themselves and they
need to make money. The debate at hand is, "How far are colleges
willing to go to make money?"
When I arrived at college, it surprised me that at least 50% of
the posters advertised how much fun it is to drink, smoke weed, have
sex, and a good 25% of the posters are strait forward pornography.
Even more surprising is the fact all around the shop are ash trays with
weed leafs imprinted on them, shot glasses, flavored blunt wraps (made
to make a blunt rolled with weed taste better). How does a college
that wants its students to be safe and healthy justify the marketing of
such products. They tell the students not to drink, and then sell shot
glasses. They tell the students not to smoke weed, but sell flavored
blunt wraps, and all the while they sell posters that glorify
everything the students have been warned against.
Anyone would be naïve to think that the students have not already
been exposed to such things by the time they are a freshman in college,
but that is no excuse for the college marketing such immoral products.
Many students who come to college determined not to fall into the
typical life of a college student will be slowly desensitized by
everything they see around them. Hitler once said something along the
lines of "A lie will become the truth if it goes unopposed for 24
hours." After four years of parading such filth in front of its
students on a daily basis, why does anyone even ask why our society is
declining into an immoral cesspool?