2008 Woodie Awards
Roughing: A look at fights around campus
Issue date: 4/5/07 Section: Editorials
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If you had to think about that question, obviously this is not the place for you to be. One assault on a student and two people fighting in less than a week. If actions speak louder than words then what exactly do these actions speak?
Whether we think Chabot is a real college or not is besides the point, this is a institution for higher education; higher thinking, higher standards set for your goals and a way of thinking highly of yourself and your actions.
Fighting on a college campus is not a representation of the things that were mentioned above. Fighting and not having the ability to fight with your mind and cut a person down with your words in a professional way is an example of the behavior and mind set displayed by a child.
Higher education means that you have surpassed the standards of elementary and high school and you are looking for something new to explore.
If you feel as if you still have to fight to prove yourself in this type of environment, you do not belong here, and you need to get your mind right in order to survive campus life. Once you turn 18 the world is no longer going to slap you on your hand when you do wrong. Now they will slap handcuffs on your wrist when you commit a crime. Think.
Do you think that it is cool to watch a fight? If so, you do not belong here either; a boxing match is the place for you to be. Fighting on a college campus is not supposed to be a spectator sport, yet we have some individuals who believe that a fight is a free show.
If your mentality is still the same as it was in high school, a mentality that would have you running when a fight broke out and dropping everything to see it, then it is time to re-evaluate your age and do a little soul searching.
Today is not the day to watch a fight take place. Now you never know what a fight can escalate to, yet you want to have front row seats and condone ignorant behavior.
People who cheer people on, and pressure them into fighting do not belong here. This institution is not the advocate for the Golden Gloves, but for the students with education on their minds.
When you decide that you want to fight someone because he or she looked at you the wrong way, you not only make that decision and it reflects on you, but it reflects on all of us because we go to school here too.
When you think you're tough, society laughs at you and calls you a thug. And when you are a thug at Chabot College, we all are ghetto thugs in their eyes.
Our school does not sit on the top of a hill giving us the opportunity to look down at the rest of the world. Our school sits in the middle of the city and when you are acting as if you do not have any sense, you add another strike against us.
This is not television, this is not the stage for your boxing matches, because this is not a place that condones fighting on a college campus.
This is a place for learning. If you cannot stand for everyone who is trying to further an education then you belong on the outside sitting and watching your opportunities pass by because obviously this environment is too good for your way of thinking.
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