School Spirit v. School Style
Monday, February 13, 2012
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I have something that I need to say. There seems to be a fake sense of pride in Eckerd College. Now, before you go all “but our basketball team is awesome this year” on me, hear me out. I’m not implying that Eckerd Students don’t love this beautiful campus, because I think they do. Deep down inside, I think they really do. What I’m talking about is wearing these ratty Eckerd College sweatshirts and pretending that you care.
Let’s be honest for a second. When you’re puking off the Omega 206 balcony, you don’t have pride in this campus. When you’re smashing glass bottles in the Nu parking lot, you don’t have pride in this campus. When you’re breaking the Alpha common room windows and then running away, you don’t have pride in this campus. You just don’t. So come Monday morning when you throw on your Eckerd College sweatshirt in a hurry because you’re late to Western Heritage in a Global Context, and you think to yourself “This is good enough,” it really isn’t. I can see through your fake pride.
This is sounding too preachy. But when it comes down to it, stylistically a hooded sweatshirt is dreadful. You look sloppy, dirty and tired as soon as you pull it over your head. In all honesty, when is the last time you washed that thing? For some reason it seems like people don’t feel the need to wash their sweatshirts. Maybe because you only wear them for part of the day or maybe because they go on over your t-shirt, but they are still getting dirty. And that shows. And that’s gross.
Look, I understand you bought your sweatshirt when you visited Eckerd back in the day, but it’s high time we let high school fads be high school fads, and move on. And for those of you wearing college sweatshirts that aren’t even Eckerd sweatshirts: give me a break! You didn’t go to Harvard. You probably didn’t even make it into Harvard. Stop wearing a Harvard sweatshirt. You just look like a fool.
Comments
Pride less
I have enough pride in this campus to be offended and revolted by this article. I'm ashamed that Mr. McDaniel is a graduate of our school and advocates this negativity. As a student, this is not the representation I would like. I advocate you take it down.
Use less
This is a forum to express opinion. If you're offended by the content, I suggest that you change the poor student behavior, not try to sweep it under the rug. Presenting censored material is not what this is about. Certainly, this is not a sole representation of what Eckerd is; it's a bit drastic and melodramatic to "advocate to take it down." This is not North Korea, it's Eckerd. And, frankly, there are a lot of behaviors that EC students display that nobody should take pride in. This article is meant to inspire people to change behavior. The fact that you feel so strongly about it means it was a success. If you have as much pride in this campus as you claim, it's interesting that you do not understand the validity of the points this blog expresses: that students, such as yourself, who have pride in this school should have enough decency to treat it with respect.