Though it's not stated anywhere but a mere verbal kind of rule, no boy and girl are allowed to stay overnight for work in the lab for fear some fella's dirty thoughts will manifest themselves in the dead of the night.
Whilst some aren't too happy about the fatwa concerning them, I'm not that glad either being policed by these moral guardians of sort. It's not that I just love to go against a ruling but if it (enforcements) were carried out fairly, then I have nothing to utter.
Imagine, these guys have the time, energy and resources to patrol the buildings at night, hoping on some lucky night, to jump upon a couple performing steamy experiments: the ones that involve the reaction of acyl chlorides with air and also the combustion of potassium nitrate; both of which produce some kind of fume and smoke.
I'm not discounting the fact that other versions of chemistry doesn't occur at all but c'mon, you have other time, space and opportunity to exercise your authority. By all means, form a snoop squad and come catch immoral students but do the same for others too.
They said, if it's a rule it's a rule. Has smoking been allowed in the campus perimeter? I tell you, that one thing have been the bane of study life for most, if not all, students. I know for sure none will be able to stand not smoking all day. Ok, eye closed. Go do it by the lake, field, car park but not the cafeteria.
It's true that USM is going green, promoting health and all; that also focusing mainly on the environment. Once, I posted a comment on the blog of the Healthy Campus coordinator under the post titled "Say NO to Plastic Bags":
Whilst some aren't too happy about the fatwa concerning them, I'm not that glad either being policed by these moral guardians of sort. It's not that I just love to go against a ruling but if it (enforcements) were carried out fairly, then I have nothing to utter.
Imagine, these guys have the time, energy and resources to patrol the buildings at night, hoping on some lucky night, to jump upon a couple performing steamy experiments: the ones that involve the reaction of acyl chlorides with air and also the combustion of potassium nitrate; both of which produce some kind of fume and smoke.
I'm not discounting the fact that other versions of chemistry doesn't occur at all but c'mon, you have other time, space and opportunity to exercise your authority. By all means, form a snoop squad and come catch immoral students but do the same for others too.
They said, if it's a rule it's a rule. Has smoking been allowed in the campus perimeter? I tell you, that one thing have been the bane of study life for most, if not all, students. I know for sure none will be able to stand not smoking all day. Ok, eye closed. Go do it by the lake, field, car park but not the cafeteria.
It's true that USM is going green, promoting health and all; that also focusing mainly on the environment. Once, I posted a comment on the blog of the Healthy Campus coordinator under the post titled "Say NO to Plastic Bags":
Dr. Lee & Co.,
Whilst I wholeheartedly support the varsity's NO PLASTIC BAGS drive as well as the NO STYROFOAM's (kudos to the actions taken like imposing the use of paperfood container), I question the silence on your part regarding cigarette smoking. It may not be an environmental sort of "problem", so to speak, but isn't it an irony if we preach health and cleanliness and yet students are breathing in second hand smoke especially in the cafeteria around the campus? As far as I know (or has rule been changed?) the campus perimeter is supposed to be smoke-free but why then the blatant disregard of [sic] the rules? If the high-spirited security personnel are all out enforcing other rules of the varsity, why then the two eyes closed scenario? Is the silence meant to protect and pacify a population of the university's smoking staff? I'm proud to see USM doing well and always reaching higher but something has to be done about this matter - especially after drastic measures have been taken to reduce the use of styrofoam, and now, plastic bags.
25 July 2008 09:49
Serious stuff. No plastics. No white coffin (styrofoam). Fantastic stuff. Real actions. What about no smoking? All I see are posters. I don't see them use ONLY posters to get the "NO plastics" message across. They implement it. Encourage bringing food containers. Mandatory use of cardboard food packages by stall operators. These are thing you can't do on smokers. So? Sit quietly and forget about it? Make full use of the security personnel. They have a ball of a time flagging down cars whilst selectively allowing some through and not to mention they way they spoke to you. I'd say it's a rather limited view to see the excessive use of plastics as a "Health" issue but not others.
Nothing is fair I know that but you got to be kidding me if you aim high yet you don't know how to manage things such as these. Talk about being good stewarts to the millions of ringgit in funding.
Biasa-lah. Who cares? I'm not a member of the Senate. Who am I to speak up on such issue? [Wonder to this day why doesn't the coordinator push on this issue instead of dwelling on plastics ans all] That's the disease affecting the higher-ups in this country. They couldn't be bothered by all these, even if it's wrong. These things are minor stuff. They're more concerned of how they look on the outside. It's just the same with our country. Deceiving oneself into thinking that we look great but in the eyes of others, a laughing stock. What's in the name of a status: Apex, Bestari, Wawasan when all these things function not to drive us in the right direction instead into perpetual blindness.
Nothing is fair I know that but you got to be kidding me if you aim high yet you don't know how to manage things such as these. Talk about being good stewarts to the millions of ringgit in funding.
Biasa-lah. Who cares? I'm not a member of the Senate. Who am I to speak up on such issue? [Wonder to this day why doesn't the coordinator push on this issue instead of dwelling on plastics ans all] That's the disease affecting the higher-ups in this country. They couldn't be bothered by all these, even if it's wrong. These things are minor stuff. They're more concerned of how they look on the outside. It's just the same with our country. Deceiving oneself into thinking that we look great but in the eyes of others, a laughing stock. What's in the name of a status: Apex, Bestari, Wawasan when all these things function not to drive us in the right direction instead into perpetual blindness.
*Back to listening Koibito Doushi - Jyukai*
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