2008 Woodie Awards
Weed on campus? Value of education going up in smoke
Josh King
Issue date: 2/20/08 Section: Opinions
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The cloud of smoke coming from the mouths of people sitting around the eatery's outer brick wall almost choked me.
As I passed by, the cloud of stupidity that circled their thinking processes almost made me re-analyze why I was at an institution of higher education.
As I sat in the café waiting on my brothers to get their food, questions filled my mind.
Is smoking allowed on campus? When was this established?
Is this in the FAMU student handbook, The Fang? Was I the only person out of the couple hundred people that passed this ignorance who smelled the illegality?
Or, am I the only one who cared that this was going on?
John Tucker, 20, a sophomore business administration student from Atlanta, had more trouble with the place students chose to smoke than the act.
"I don't care if you smoke weed, but if you do it in an open area, you deserve to get caught," he said.
I'm not the only person that is witnessing this illegal activity, so why is this going on?
Since the activity was in front of the café, I proceeded to the counter to get a response from a Sedexho food employee.
Tasha Cook said when students are smoking outside of her job it has little effect on her.
"I don't go to school here, and it's not affecting me," she said. "If they get caught that's their business."
As I questioned Cook, another Sodexho employee heard our conversation and left his cooking station to go outside where I first saw the group of herb smokers.
I followed behind him slowly and watched him from inside. From the looks of it, he warned the group that someone was inside reporting on the illegal activity, and they needed to leave.
Before the Sodexho employee could get back to the entrance of the café door, the mob of people scattered in different directions as if they were leaving a crime scene.
Was this an eyewitness account of the Code of Silence? These people's reactions were so unreal.
As I walked across the street, all I could think about was how scholarly students park illegally to get to class because of car troubles or a lack of paring spaces and get towed or booted, but students sit 15 feet away from Wahnish Way and smoke illegal drugs with no repercussion.
-This is part 1 of a 2-part series.
Josh King is a senior magazine production student from Jacksonville. He can be reached at famuanopinions@hotmail.com.
Viewing Comments 1 - 5 of 6
Give Me A Break
posted 2/20/08 @ 9:37 AM EST
Give me a break! Name one college in America where weed or even worst is not happening everyday, or please for that matter name one high school? Furthermore, you know that smoking is not allowed on campus and so asking yourself such an asinine question losses all validity and makes one simply say, give me a break! College is a sample of life, if you smoke weed and get caught you will be punished, just as in the real world. (Continued…)
Strouble
posted 2/20/08 @ 11:28 AM EST
I feel you bro people should not smoke in public places not just weed, but ciggarettes or anything else. They should smoke in there own homes or rooms or atleast somewhere that will not have an affect on the University's Reputation. (Continued…)
Derrick Lamar Mcmahon
posted 2/20/08 @ 2:25 PM EST
Personally I saw a guy today by tucker hall and he had a big fat blunt in his mouth. And all I could think was WOW how cool is he.
In conclusion smoking is cool. (Continued…)
me
posted 2/22/08 @ 2:15 PM EST
to give me a break - i don't think the issue is the fact that they were smoking weed. i think it's more of the implications of where it was taking place. (Continued…)
Nova
posted 2/23/08 @ 7:21 PM EST
Regardless to what many believe, including students who haven't been exposed to anything in their life, and self righteous parents that grew up in the seventies, but smoking marijuana is very prevalent in everyday society, not just on college campuses. (Continued…)
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