2008 Woodie Awards
Not such a great time to be at Slippery Rock
Issue date: 1/18/08 Section: Rocket Letters
As a student at Slippery Rock, I constantly see advertisements and messages that are aimed at prospective students, telling us how great it is to be here.
Though I do enjoy SRU and am thankful for my time here thus far, there are things you learn about SRU the longer you stay here, things that are not so great, I am afraid.
Fall break caused some rescheduling in finals week that caused my Monday night class to have our final exam on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. The students voted for fall break, and I am alright with it.
My concern is that Bailey Library was closed. I, as well as other students in my class, needed to print out our papers for our final class and were unable to do so because the computer labs in Spotts were also closed. If finals are still going on, the library needs to be open.
Another concern I have is the cost of the textbooks we use for class. I actually buy my textbooks and end up keeping them at the end of the semester because the bookstore offers little to sometimes nothing for our textbooks.
Last semester I ordered many of my books online and was able to keep the cost relatively low. As a political science major, it's not uncommon to have classes with four or more textbooks.
My complaint is that the bookstore sits on the information about the textbooks (particularly, the ISBNs) and doesn't provide students with that information until the last minute, forcing many students to buy their books at the bookstore for a much higher price.
If the library is going to close early, give me and the other students back the part of our tuition that goes to fund the library.
SGA owns the bookstore, and as a senator in SGA, I intend to fix this problem by taking this issue to Senate as early as possible. My hope is for other students to contact their SGA representatives to urge them to represent the students, not the bookstore, on this issue.
If students force their SGA representatives to do things that benefit the student body as a whole, I think it really will be a great time to be at Slippery Rock University, and I look forward to that time.
Alex McNeill
Junior
Political Science
Though I do enjoy SRU and am thankful for my time here thus far, there are things you learn about SRU the longer you stay here, things that are not so great, I am afraid.
Fall break caused some rescheduling in finals week that caused my Monday night class to have our final exam on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. The students voted for fall break, and I am alright with it.
My concern is that Bailey Library was closed. I, as well as other students in my class, needed to print out our papers for our final class and were unable to do so because the computer labs in Spotts were also closed. If finals are still going on, the library needs to be open.
Another concern I have is the cost of the textbooks we use for class. I actually buy my textbooks and end up keeping them at the end of the semester because the bookstore offers little to sometimes nothing for our textbooks.
Last semester I ordered many of my books online and was able to keep the cost relatively low. As a political science major, it's not uncommon to have classes with four or more textbooks.
My complaint is that the bookstore sits on the information about the textbooks (particularly, the ISBNs) and doesn't provide students with that information until the last minute, forcing many students to buy their books at the bookstore for a much higher price.
If the library is going to close early, give me and the other students back the part of our tuition that goes to fund the library.
SGA owns the bookstore, and as a senator in SGA, I intend to fix this problem by taking this issue to Senate as early as possible. My hope is for other students to contact their SGA representatives to urge them to represent the students, not the bookstore, on this issue.
If students force their SGA representatives to do things that benefit the student body as a whole, I think it really will be a great time to be at Slippery Rock University, and I look forward to that time.
Alex McNeill
Junior
Political Science
