Well I'm not going to play fun word games with you this time because this is just downright annoying. (To understand that sentence please read at least the first paragraph of the blog below.) So for those of you who don't go to Lovett (on a side note: please leave a comment cause I would love to know if anyone other than Lovett students read this) being the Vice President of the student body I was in charge of reading the announcements during Monday morning assembly. Because they are usually boring I tried to spice it up with a little stand up routine (I should have known). So I basically make fun of the announcements. In my eyes the highlights were: no one doing summer reading, and the comment about private school. I figured those were a little on the edge and I might catch some flack for those if any at all, I seriously doubted anyone would bother to say anything because nothing was bad unto its self. So when Dr. Dunkle, the principle walks up to me, I am already getting annoyed because I know what is coming. So he starts up all political with the "that was a great assembly" bit. So he once he is through the rhetoric (BS) he says that he didn't like it, it got old, and then he lectured me on my comments about ... none other than ... golf? I'm sitting there with my mind racing trying to remember what I could have possibly said about golf. And all I can think of was that I said, "I've always wanted to go to a golf match." How in the world did that offend anyone? I really have always wanted to go to a golf match! So here is the ultimatum:
I agree with the whole tolerance thing at Lovett (get ready for some blogs about that) but only to this extent: I will tolerate everyone by making fun of everyone equally. I would like to point out that if we are trying to equip people for college we cannot shield them from a comment about golf. This obsession with political correctness is just creating a bubble for everyone at Lovett that will rock their world when it actually pops. We are tolerating ourselves to death and if I don't have enough freedom to read the announcements (or anything else), they might as well come out and say that they are going to limit free speech, which of course is their choice.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Not Very PC
Lovett is not very PC friendly, not at all. Even though it is crammed full of PC people, they insist on not letting us be a PC campus. Now many of you are probably appalled right now because you are thinking that Lovett is not very Politically Correct (all the rage these days). Well guess what ... you are dead WRONG!!!
Lovett is a Mac Campus ... Yes this blog is about computers, not politics. I have a personal vendetta against Mac's but this is not a place for me to tell you all the reasons PCs are better. I am here to note that there are benefits to both PCs and Macs. Macs are great when it comes to design and areas such as that, and the Visual Arts program uses them a lot there. Great, they are little and cute so lets put them all over campus.
But what about the rest of us? What about those of us who don't quite appreciate the little white apple with a portion bitten out? What about those of us who aren't going into the design world? Well, Lovett is still on top of the ball, they installed 3 PC's in the library this year ... Hooray! But wait, why can I never use them? Because every one else wants to!
Okay enough with the cynicism, here is the solution: To prepare Lovett students for the rest of our lives we need to know the basic premise of both. I know enough about Macs to properly use them and actually I know a lot more than I really care to know. But we have 4 computer labs side by side, not to mention several others else where. All full of the white boxes. The answer is simple ... Do what every other school does: have some PC labs and some Mac labs. Its not that difficult. Sticking our head in the sand because we like the Apple will solve nothing!
Lovett is a Mac Campus ... Yes this blog is about computers, not politics. I have a personal vendetta against Mac's but this is not a place for me to tell you all the reasons PCs are better. I am here to note that there are benefits to both PCs and Macs. Macs are great when it comes to design and areas such as that, and the Visual Arts program uses them a lot there. Great, they are little and cute so lets put them all over campus.
But what about the rest of us? What about those of us who don't quite appreciate the little white apple with a portion bitten out? What about those of us who aren't going into the design world? Well, Lovett is still on top of the ball, they installed 3 PC's in the library this year ... Hooray! But wait, why can I never use them? Because every one else wants to!
Okay enough with the cynicism, here is the solution: To prepare Lovett students for the rest of our lives we need to know the basic premise of both. I know enough about Macs to properly use them and actually I know a lot more than I really care to know. But we have 4 computer labs side by side, not to mention several others else where. All full of the white boxes. The answer is simple ... Do what every other school does: have some PC labs and some Mac labs. Its not that difficult. Sticking our head in the sand because we like the Apple will solve nothing!
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