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PLEASE!
OPINION: Professors and
politics just don’t belong in
the same category.
Filthy Facilities
STAFF EDITORIAL: Santa Ana College is not maintaining its own
cleanliness standards, with most restrooms improperly supplied.
Sitting in their morning class, students
discuss the elections. The professor joins
a nearby conversation and is shocked
to hear the student say she doesn’t vote
because of her religion. The professor
criticizes the quiet student who doesn’t
dare counter.
This is disgusting and horrifying. For
one, college students are paying for an
education, not to be told by a PhD holder
that their entire belief system is trash.
An academic setting requires open
and equal discussion on the subject at
hand without any personal bias from the
instructor.
I don’t want to be sitting in my math
class worrying about what my professor
thinks of me regarding politics. The job
of a professor is to stimulate the minds
of their students and to engage them in
the curriculum, not to place their own
opinions on irrelevant topics into the
lesson plans. Critical thinking allows for all
perspectives.
That’s not to say that professors as
individuals cannot have their own opin-
ions. But when a professor’s opinion
deliberately attacks a student’s belief
system or their own opinions, it’s just bad.
/ Jessica Arredondo
C
ampus restrooms always feel grimy. The paper towel and soap dispensers
are usually empty; the dispensers themselves are dirty.
Floors are either sticky or wet from urine that overflows the urinal. The
toilets are always riddled with paper. Trash cans are overflowing. Loose hair can be
found around the rims of toilets or the floor.
The maintenance and operations website for SAC states: “Our custodial services
include cleaning, sanitizing, floor care, stocking paper products, changing
interior light bulbs, and collecting and disposing of refuse.” Yet, regardless of the
custodian shift changes, we see that the campus doesn’t remain clean, the floors
are dirty, paper products aren’t always stocked, light bulbs go months without
being changed and trash can go days without being disposed.
Multiple stall doors around campus don’t close all the way. If you get lucky
enough to find one that shuts, there’s a large gap that anyone can peek through.
Santiago Canyon College, on the other hand, always seems to be clean and
properly maintained.
We deserve the same level of custodial care and cleanliness.
el Don Santa Ana College · December 2018
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