Letter to the Editor
False advertisement? Let's go Mount!
Issue date: 2/14/07 Section: Forum
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I have been very sparse on words when my roommates complain about the few places to study in the late night hours. I always pull the "What about the apartment lounge area, or the Niche, or the McGowan Center? But what about when you have to type a paper? Really?
When I took the tour of this beautiful campus, I was told by our guide that there was at least three or four 24 hour computer labs where anyone could go to type a paper if they were not worried about working in the wee hours whilst their roommate slept.
Well, here I am trying to write a paper and the only place I can actually write is the McGowan Commuter Lounge, which I was let into by some kind souls who were already in there-most likely not commuters because it's almost 2 a.m. and they are talking Chemistry-let me in. But where are these so called labs that I heard about, you might ask? Let's go over the possibilities.
The previously mentioned lab that I am currently in is technically 24 hours. But unless you commute, you can not regularly get into said lab unless there is someone in there willing to let you in. Then there is the Niche, which does not actually count. When I signed on to come to the Mount, the Niche did not exist. So any counter argument about my claims that the Mount is false advertising about their so called "24 hour" computer labs would never be allowed to submit the Niche as a source to prove me wrong.
Then there is the lab in the Science Building that was spectacular to write papers in late at night. And when I say this, I mean when I was a freshman; when I could go in there until they banned it from everyone except the 10 or so Science majors on campus.
So where does that leave us? It leaves us with a Business Lab that closes at 2 a.m. with two dysfunctional printers for many weeks. How is that a good lab of business?
Also, an Education lab that discriminates against anyone who is not an education major, and a newly furnished Borders building that refuses anyone who wants to use their few computers unless they have a learning disability.
Please do not advertise to so many young, feeble-minded recruits the many places they can go on a late Thursday night to type a much needed paper that will either make or break their graduation. You already lie to them on what actually goes on during most Thursday nights. Why do you need to keep lying to them?
Mike Miller
Class of 2007
When I took the tour of this beautiful campus, I was told by our guide that there was at least three or four 24 hour computer labs where anyone could go to type a paper if they were not worried about working in the wee hours whilst their roommate slept.
Well, here I am trying to write a paper and the only place I can actually write is the McGowan Commuter Lounge, which I was let into by some kind souls who were already in there-most likely not commuters because it's almost 2 a.m. and they are talking Chemistry-let me in. But where are these so called labs that I heard about, you might ask? Let's go over the possibilities.
The previously mentioned lab that I am currently in is technically 24 hours. But unless you commute, you can not regularly get into said lab unless there is someone in there willing to let you in. Then there is the Niche, which does not actually count. When I signed on to come to the Mount, the Niche did not exist. So any counter argument about my claims that the Mount is false advertising about their so called "24 hour" computer labs would never be allowed to submit the Niche as a source to prove me wrong.
Then there is the lab in the Science Building that was spectacular to write papers in late at night. And when I say this, I mean when I was a freshman; when I could go in there until they banned it from everyone except the 10 or so Science majors on campus.
So where does that leave us? It leaves us with a Business Lab that closes at 2 a.m. with two dysfunctional printers for many weeks. How is that a good lab of business?
Also, an Education lab that discriminates against anyone who is not an education major, and a newly furnished Borders building that refuses anyone who wants to use their few computers unless they have a learning disability.
Please do not advertise to so many young, feeble-minded recruits the many places they can go on a late Thursday night to type a much needed paper that will either make or break their graduation. You already lie to them on what actually goes on during most Thursday nights. Why do you need to keep lying to them?
Mike Miller
Class of 2007
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