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Students need to get respect to respect
By Amanda Degen
Published:
Thursday, October 30, 2003
Amanda Degen -- Staff Column
This week I've changed my mind and decided to focus on another, more pertinent topic: the ever increasing strained relationship between students and faculty on campus.
I say increasing, because from my personal standpoint, I feel like it has been. Just recently I was talking to some friends of mine who were very frustrated at how advisors, administrators and faculty were treating them. Much of it stemmed from unreturned emails, lack of interest in a student's cause, or just general resentment toward a student. I could relate as I too have felt the harsh sting of insult. I know that on occasion, when I have talked to the faculty in the administrative building, that I have felt ignored or insulted by one of the workers, only to later have my mother call that same worker, about the same topic at hand, only to be treated with the utmost respect. Is the stigma of student so negative to garner us less respect?
I understand the stress and time constraints placed on faculty here, especially with financial difficulties and budget cuts resulting in overworked members. But be aware that we too, feel the pressures of deadlines, and with the complications of actually graduating in a somewhat timely fashion and fulfilling all of the sometimes-absurd requirements to move on into this world. I recently felt very stressed out when trying to plan the remaining few semesters of my academic schedule, so that I could graduate. When interested about finding out the upcoming summer schedule, I was told that at this time that it would be impossible to know what would be available. I was instead directed to take a heavier load of classes in the spring, or otherwise not plan on graduating when I had thought, which in turn could completely change my future plans. Although this may have been just another inevitable road block that I had to face, I wish that there would have been more available people out there to help me deal with this issue, rather than just tough it out.
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