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General Discussion / Re: The Role of Mental Health in Stuco
« on: April 28, 2014, 08:35:32 pm »
I have a few unrelated thoughts on this topic.
1. I think Stuco needs to self-impose/police a tech week curfew. There's absolutely no reason why somebody needs to spend all night working in Shanley/Louis. We need to stigmatize staying up all night to make a show happen. It doesn't need to be that way. Another version of this is no freshman past a certain hour. My basic point is getting no sleep during a tech week should not be/is not a badge of honor, and I think a culture of taking care of oneself and prioritizing health needs to come from the upperclassmen.
2. FBRs need to go. I am not on a board, but I would argue that they serve no function that could not be achieved by others. I understand the sense of "tradition" that this would eliminate, but I think that Stuco would be a far less scary place to a lot of freshmen if we did not denote a group of "cool kids" their first quarter here. Which leads to my next point...
3. StuCo's general social media presence is pretty focused on individual people and the "things" that they get. This needs to end. We create a culture of have and have nots, and make people sitting at their computer who didn't get the thing feel worthless.
1. I think Stuco needs to self-impose/police a tech week curfew. There's absolutely no reason why somebody needs to spend all night working in Shanley/Louis. We need to stigmatize staying up all night to make a show happen. It doesn't need to be that way. Another version of this is no freshman past a certain hour. My basic point is getting no sleep during a tech week should not be/is not a badge of honor, and I think a culture of taking care of oneself and prioritizing health needs to come from the upperclassmen.
2. FBRs need to go. I am not on a board, but I would argue that they serve no function that could not be achieved by others. I understand the sense of "tradition" that this would eliminate, but I think that Stuco would be a far less scary place to a lot of freshmen if we did not denote a group of "cool kids" their first quarter here. Which leads to my next point...
3. StuCo's general social media presence is pretty focused on individual people and the "things" that they get. This needs to end. We create a culture of have and have nots, and make people sitting at their computer who didn't get the thing feel worthless.