Editorial: What would you change?
By JJ Ossola
IV Leader Editor, May 3, 2007
“These are the best of times and the blurst of times -
ahhh, stupid monkey!” as Mr. Burns from the Simpsons would say.
Sometimes we have all felt as if we were just pounding away
at the keyboards in a futile attempt to have a masterpiece emerge from the
ramblings. The reading, the Internet research, the discussion groups, the final
projects, and the essays we have written are all probably still tumbling in the
backs of our minds.
Now with summer approaching, the days getting longer and
hotter, there will be plenty of opportunity to sort that stuff out. I hope that
something you wrote about or researched will become a summer learning project.
At least use some of your newly acquired facts to let friends
and family know that you were awake and attending college this year! I hope that
every reader had found something on campus to get involved in besides their
classes.
I hope that everyone has met someone new and that these new
friendships carry on for a lifetime. That’s something that some people take for
granted. These friends you make here could be future colleagues, neighbors, or
softball league opponents.
As you are in the final days of the semester, I urge you to
give the college your feedback on the experience. There are ‘Input boxes’ all
over the campus and it can be completely anonymous or you can get updated with
how your concern is being handled.
Ask yourself the Campus Question: If you could change
anything you wanted about IVCC, what would you change?
Its a blank check...look around the campus and into your
experience. Let the school know the good as well as the bad.
What would you change?