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Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - Page 6 COMMENTARY', New I.D. cards are more trouble than they're worth As the start of the Fall semester begins due to some free prize being given out. (though not totally out of the norm for this joyable is having some notification sent to in full swing, students young and old grog- No, even the new and improved institution). my house over the summer, accompanied of gily make their way to the all too familiar McDaniel College has no means of handing I for one course by a eating environment tagged Glar. out favors. Instead, they decided to make am not a huge tuition bill Whipping out respective J.D.cards to be even the daily habit of eating a chore with fan of having that still swiped through the oh-so-efficientmachines, the onset of new identification cards. my lunchtime makes my they are promptly shut down (andso are their Why did yours work and your put on halt so mother gasp. roommate's didn't, nor did the 30 people I can stand in That standing behind him work, you ask? Well, I a line moving being said, if have a very good explanation for that: there at the speed of -~- we are trying isn't one. negativethree. to be so up For some odd reason, a random assort- ~~~ ment of students had access to Glar during the line end- here at the first week of classes with their old cards. less, but after McDaniel Yet, most of us stood on an hour or longer w a i tin g College, why line to have our pictures retaken while the through the not start with time flew by and the prospect of having entire lunch more effec- brunch sometime this millennium quickly hour, you also tive methods dwindled. run the risk of of torture? No matter though, because all students the machine I think were subjected to the inconvenience at one b rea kin g you will find point or another. This way, those of us still down on you that the re- boycotting the name change were forced to before having sults Erin Romanski carry an LD.displaying the new name 24n. the opportu- much more Back to my point. It's all well and good cards). that the school would like us all to have cute Immediately, the scary realization sinks little matching yellowish orange LD.'s as in that the mile- long line stemming out of soon as possible. what once was a useless coat closet is not What isn't cool is the lack of warning ing. What would have been even more en- is a junior English major. Name change leaves a bitter taste for "Western Maryland" students who remain loyal Tim Mascari discusses the aftermath of name change/or Theoretically,the school couldjust set up students a bunch of mannequins around campus de- plumbing. 90s were that bad. The administration just And to be honest it probably was, but that In the ripple that remains of the contro- picting normal campus life. doesn't make you have to feel good about it. decided to change nightlife on campus, par- versial WMCname change there still lies the They could have some in Glar, a scene Half a decade ago when I walked through tially, I have been told for liability reasons but mainly for appearances. unsettlingfeeling thatthe administrationisn't in the library, a mannequin football game that arch I can honestly say I felt welcomed They no longer wanted to be known as happy with its current student population. with mannequin fans, and a sign for the fu- here, but this name change ordeal kind of the school that made Playboy Magazines top Not only is the administration not happy left a bad taste in my mouth. 100 party schools list. with us, they went as far as to change the One of the main reasons Besides the name, another noticeable These changes aren't coincidences, and name of the college so people like us would for the name change was change that has had a direct effect on cam- I'm not saying the direction the administra- stop coming here or at least not be accepted pus, and off-campus life, has been the rise tion has chosen to take is wrong, it's great. on account of all the top-shelf incoming because the college wasn't of the Department of Campus Safety. All I'm saying is that if you're looking fo~a freshman. For you freshmen and even sophomores college witha reasonableamount of nightlife I realize that some could view this as a attracting the students who have received alcohol citations, it little farfetched and verging on a bad case of they wanted. That means wasn't always like this. options, transfer. Now. . . In the coming years here on the Hill It paranoid inferiority, but is it? It wasn't too long ago that all the DoCS should be interesting to see our college One of the main reasons for the name you, and I weren't what consisted of was an old station wagon and a change was because the college wasn't at- they were looking for. handful of rent-a-cops who were much more change from ex-party school WMC filled with binge drinking kids from the Jerset tracting the students they wanted. That lenient. Youcould get caught with a beer in shore, Pennsyl-tucky, and local pubil c means you, and I weren't what they were ture McDaniel elite reading - "This could be the hallway and all they would say would be looking for. you." "get in a room." schools, to the prestigious, McDaniel ~ol- It is not like the admissions department I'm sure if you were to confront Presi- Now there Zippingaround on flashy little lege filled with prep-school academia ehte. isgoing to stop accepting applications while dent Coley about this very idea (leaving out bikes, cruising in that Jeep with the lights In some ways we can consider ourselves the college re-establishes itself footingas the the mannequins, of course), she would give flashing, writing citations like there going lucky. Maybe 30 years from now Mc~~ni;~ next Swarthmore or Haverford. you a well-prepared, Rush Limbaugh style, our of style, and riding around with College will be a well-known preS~lgJOat - college that we can brag about havmg We're just here to fill the void and pay manipulation of the English language that Westminster City police busting parties, in the bills; something for the private school would make the name change sound like the what they self-proclaimed the Party Patrol. ~T1~'Mascari is a senior His.tory brass to observe on their recruiting trips. best addition to this campus since indoor It's not like students of the mid to late