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Our Perspective: Missing Convocation aggravating
Written By Teresa Dickert for the Executive Staff
Opinion Editor
Fall convocation is not happening this year, but we did get a State of the College Address on Tuesday. Oh, but wait, the State of the College Address does not count as one of the two required convocation points; sarcasm overwhelming. Granted, we do care about the State of the College. The New Perspective staff last year would not have had so many interesting articles about our President’s lack of presence and communication on the campus, and the opinions of students if we did not care.
Now, back to the issue at hand, the lack of fall convocation. Let’s ponder this for a moment, shall we. The lack of fall convocation this year, well, it has not really been announced, yet, has it? (In terms of communication, it seems Carroll administration has not gotten the hang of it yet. Perhaps we will get a taste of when this announcement will be "officially" made from the one-day-in-advance e-mail notice we received this Monday regarding the State of the College Address.) What does this mean? Where do your opinionated editors stand on this issue? In short, we feel that the lack of fall convocation is aggravating. It means that all of you wonderful students who skipped out on opening convocation (remember, that one you go to in order to laugh at the freshman being herded in by the men playing bagpipes... that whole ceremony to make freshman feel welcome, but really just embarrasses the heck out of them) will now be "stuck" going to the remaining two convocations. In other words, students have no choice. It will be Founder’s Day and Pioneer convocations for you. We hope you enjoy attending ceremonies of public accolades, because these two convocations are chock-full of them.
It sure is a good thing we were informed so early, that way we could choose and prepare to attend two of the three convocations before the first one passed us by. Again, the sarcasm drips. We all need two points this year; hopefully everyone’s schedules are easy to clear, because for those of us yet to attend convocation this year, the idea of free choice has been thrown out the window. Being cynical, we could say, this has not been the first nor is it the last time the good of the students was not considered above all things. Well, I guess we’ll see you in February! (And maybe this time, we all might even get a seat.)
