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The Hutchinson Collegian
The Hutchinson Collegian is the official student newspaper of Hutchinson Community College. It is created by the Newspaper Production class each week during the academic year, except for when school is not in session, or during final exams. Copies may be found on campus Friday mornings, or in Shears Technology Center, room 207. Our newspaper is printed by The Hutchinson News.
Staff
Editor In Chief Tabitha Barr Campus editor Jared Shuff Opinion page editor Emily Fehrman Sports editors Adam Kolb and Bailey Pennycuff Digital Content Coordinator Cody Schroeder Social Media Coordinator Shealynn Hubbs Online Content Editor Bailey Young Online Web Master Aaron Strain Editorial cartoonist Kristin Anguiano Staff members Samarah Bailey, Emily Branson, Jake Brown, Rachel Lyons, Bre Rogers, KJ Ryan, Caleb Spencer, Laci Sutton Adviser Brad Hallier
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The Hutchinson Collegian Friday, November 22 , 2019
Letter to the Editor Student voices campus security concerns Dear Editor: I have read what President Dr. Carter File said about campus security. I believe Hutchinson Community College needs campus security at all times. It would make people feel safe on campus at night. There are nights that I’ve noticed religious recruiters trying to pressure others, including me, into joining them. Levels of discomfort depend on the person. I am not scared of them, but others might be. There are incidents that have happened at the football games that have carried over to the campus. If we had better security, then some of these situations could be resolved. There are many problems that go unheard and unreported. The campus can be dangerous when HutchCC football players have altercations. The more unreported incidents, the less people are going to know about the dangers we face on campus everyday. The campus needs to upgrade security so these situations can be prevented before they are blown out of proportion. Sincerely, RJ Evans Hanceville, Ala., freshman
Men’s Bathrooms
(ew)
No one likes to use a public bathroom. If you’re the one person that enjoys public bathrooms, I’m sorry to say it, but you’re probably a psychopath. I don’t make the rules; I just enforce them. With the mutual understanding of public bathrooms being an absolute cesspool out of the way, I don’t understand how people can live with themselves in making public bathrooms worse than they are in the first place. Can someone explain how dry Ramen noodles end up in the bathroom sinks in the dorms? Why are you making Ramen in the bathroom? That’s the last place any food should be prepared. Fun fact of the day- bathrooms are not kitchens, and you shouldn’t think they’re remotely the same thing. It shouldn’t have to be said, but don’t have food out in the open in the bathroom. The worst case of this was when I found a granola
Columnist
Caleb Spencer Caleb Spencer is an Andale freshman studying Media Communications
bar wrapper in the shower. I don’t even want to know whose idea that was. That’s not even the worst part of the dorm bathrooms, though. There’s one problem that completely baffles me as to how it even happens. How on Earth do the toilets not get flushed? They’re literally automatic toilets. You practically have to try and not have the toilets flush. Even if it doesn’t flush automatically, you can press a button to have it flush. Do you just leave without thinking about it? How do you sleep at night knowing what you’ve done? Guys, at least clean up after yourself. You’re giving men a worse image than we already have. We need all the help we can get here, and this honestly feels like self-sabotage. Bathroom etiquette is possibly the easiest thing you can do in the dorms. All you have to do is not be an absolute slob and think about the dozens of other people in your wing for less than half a second. I know I don’t like to be in there longer than I have to, but I try to make sure the place isn’t a reeking pile of crap when I’m done. Sometimes I feel like that’s some people’s main goal when they use the restroom.
Women’s Bathrooms
(less of an ew but still gross at best)
OK ladies and gents, let’s talk bathrooms. Here at Hutchinson Community College, they seem to be the worst. Well OK, I don’t live in the dorms so I don’t really know about those. Except the one time I was ...which wasn’t a great experience. How hard is it to dispose of your feminine products? Trick question, it’s not hard. Something that just makes me cringe is that we are all (assuming) over the age of 18, we are in COLLEGE y’all, and yet we still need to have those signs in the bathroom asking (more like begging us) to properly throw away used products. The amount of unneccesary access hair that lays around the floor? Awful, please stop brushing your hair at school ... save that for home, I beg you. The last thing I want to do is go into the bathroom and walk out with a layer of hair that isn’t mine. It’s disgusting, truthfully. Bathroom etiquette is something I think a few have yet to understand. Please, please, please stop taking naked pictures of yourself in a public bathroom. I have walked in on three people taking them, and a few of my classmates were telling me they’ve been having the
same run in. No one (other than the person you plan to send that to) wants to walk in unsuspecting and see that. I hate it when I go into the bathrooms and there are a million girls in there. If they were, I don’t know, actually using the toilets, it would be different. But no, they’re just standing around talking. Which wouldn’t bother me, talk all you want I don’t care. It’s when they won’t even acknowledge that I’m there asking them if they’re in line or not. It’s not even a bathroom thing that’s just a mean girl thing. Please, for the love of all that is pure and holy, just flush the toilet after you’re done using it. Sometimes, you’ll walk in and every toilet has yet to be flushed. Is it because they just don’t want to look at it or deal with it? Now the rest of us are stuck with it. Things would just be easier if people were more considerate of each other.
Columnist
Emily Fehrman Emily Fehrman is a Pretty Prairie sophomore studying Journalism