Dear Editor,
So now the great minds on the SUNY Board of Trustees has (without student input, as usual) taken the piddling 9% of dorm space for smokers away. Hooray for the mission of tolerance that is so obviously a part of the state system of higher education.
Now students won’t smoke in their own rooms, just as they don’t drink, use drugs, cook or burn candles there. And they’ll learn the important lesson that real life goes on underground, just like it did in the good old USSR.
Oh, and there’ll be one more thing residential staff can use to write students up and fine them for. A win-win situation all around.
Sincerely,
Chris Sorochin Class of ’83 (when we didn’t have to hide behind closed doors)
