thought college was the bastion for free thought

[Particle Man]

College campus... Private property. They can limit it if they'd like. *shrug*

[Tmall]

Originally Posted by goof2

You have a point. I should have used another word. Substitute freedom, ability, or whatever word you want, the idea remains the same.

I understand your point. I can understand being upset with smoking regulations. Either ban the things or piss off already.

[Mikey]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

College campus... Private property. They can limit it if they'd like. *shrug*

Bullshit. I pay a couple grand each year in property taxes for the local community college, and nobody in my household is currently a student there.

It is most definitely not private property.

I don't smoke anymore, but I still think this is a bunch of bullshit. The same clowns who want "the man" to leave them alone and let them smoke pot, not bathe, and be free to slack off on someone else's dime are yelling and screaming that the same man needs to ban cigarette smoke because the very sight of someone else smoking gives them instant cancer. Fuck those clowns.

Give the smokers somewhere to smoke (like a gazebo or something) and they'll leave you alone. They prefer to be around fellow smokers than self-righteous pricks anyway.

[Tmall]

Originally Posted by Mikey

Bullshit. I pay a couple grand each year in property taxes for the local community college, and nobody in my household is currently a student there.

It is most definitely not private property.

I don't smoke anymore, but I still think this is a bunch of bullshit. The same clowns who want "the man" to leave them alone and let them smoke pot, not bathe, and be free to slack off on someone else's dime are yelling and screaming that the same man needs to ban cigarette smoke because the very sight of someone else smoking gives them instant cancer. Fuck those clowns.

Give the smokers somewhere to smoke (like a gazebo or something) and they'll leave you alone. They prefer to be around fellow smokers than self-righteous pricks anyway.

And then you have ten thousand cigarette butts on the ground in that area. I hate to say it, but you have nobody to blame but inconsiderate smokers.

At work, the smokers clean the smoking area. Non-smokers have no responsibility for it at all. It's a beautiful thing because they rarely throw their litter on the ground because they have to clean it.

And I guess they could always sit in their vehicles and smoke in the parking lot right? Keep the funk and dirt in their car, how could that be an issue?

[goof2]

Ultimately it doesn't matter to me one way or the other. If I went to one of these schools I'd still smoke on campus. Give me some smoking areas with places to put butts and I'm more than happy to do that. Take it away completely and I'm smoking anywhere and firing butts on the ground at will.

[Smittie61984]

My school allows smoking in certain areas. Infact the areas they allow it are very nice. Nice shade, nice benches, swings, landscaping, etc. If it was smoke free I'd study there all the time. But regardless of those areas people will smoke next to doors or where everybody chills while taking a break. During a break in my summer semester some girl lit up a cigarette and had smoke going right into my face. She got pissy at me when I asked her to go to the smoking part. Times like that I wish I could just take a dump in the smokers section or a leak on her.

I like the designated areas and feel that a lot of schools should adopt that. But if so then they need to seriously enforce that the smokers stay in the smoking section.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Mikey

Bullshit. I pay a couple grand each year in property taxes for the local community college, and nobody in my household is currently a student there.

It is most definitely not private property.

I don't smoke anymore, but I still think this is a bunch of bullshit. The same clowns who want "the man" to leave them alone and let them smoke pot, not bathe, and be free to slack off on someone else's dime are yelling and screaming that the same man needs to ban cigarette smoke because the very sight of someone else smoking gives them instant cancer. Fuck those clowns.

Give the smokers somewhere to smoke (like a gazebo or something) and they'll leave you alone. They prefer to be around fellow smokers than self-righteous pricks anyway.

this X1000

[goof2]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

My school allows smoking in certain areas. Infact the areas they allow it are very nice. Nice shade, nice benches, swings, landscaping, etc. If it was smoke free I'd study there all the time. But regardless of those areas people will smoke next to doors or where everybody chills while taking a break. During a break in my summer semester some girl lit up a cigarette and had smoke going right into my face. She got pissy at me when I asked her to go to the smoking part. Times like that I wish I could just take a dump in the smokers section or a leak on her.

I like the designated areas and feel that a lot of schools should adopt that. But if so then they need to seriously enforce that the smokers stay in the smoking section.

I'd be fine with that. The problem you are running in to is the typical college student is a moronic twat.

[Trip]

College has never been a bastion of free thought, it's whatever thought your professor has and you better damn well agree with them because that ain't a god damn thing you can do to get them fired.

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by Trip

College has never been a bastion of free thought, it's whatever thought your professor has and you better damn well agree with them because that ain't a god damn thing you can do to get them fired.

The Social Science/Liberal Arts buildings are my favorite for Free Thought. Don't go their way and they raise all kinds of hell. Guess that is why they have the most bitchin' building on campus while the Science and Mathematic buildings are slightly a step above a janitor's closet.