Please, stop being ignorant

Finally reaching my senior year of my undergraduate collegiate experience here at PVAMU, I am distraught on how to feel about the people who currently and formerly embodied this university.

We get so upset on how we are treated among other universities yet we cannot seem to realize the problems that we bring upon ourselves. It's like I'm constantly walking around thinking 'are you serious?' because these people have really gotten out of control.

Lately I've noticed too often the ignorance that happens daily at this institution.

Recently, a student talking to one of our professors told the teacher, who has a doctorate degree I might add, that she (the professor) does not know the material and that she is foolish for not giving the class a rubric for the midterm exam. The student also added that the professor is "wrong" for taking points off of her paper because it was unorganized. She said that she was never told your work had to be in order...uh really? Come on now, children, if we want to be adults and be taken seriously, let's act accordingly. We have to stop finding someone to blame all of the time because we are secretly unhappy with ourselves.

Then there is the madness surrounding the recent hazing allegations. These "future leaders" were flocking to the media to express what they believed they knew to be fact about the situation. What's humorous to me is that none of these people were there. Why embarrass yourself, your family, and your university with the ignorance?

Along with all of that, students are greatly struggling with how to act, dress, and just all around carry themselves in public. Can we do better?

We "say" that we're in college so that we can have a career, make money, network, meet life long friends, find ourselves, whatever, yet while we are here we forget that with every conclusion there is a process. We, as students, are failing during the process.

I'm all around disappointed in this entire semester because for the first time I am truly embarrassed and irritated.

My future alma mater is going down at a rate too fast for any of us to do anything about and it really is a tragedy. Prairie View is a fine institution. We have some of the best professors, some of the kindest staff, and some of the most genuine people here, but there are always those few bad apples who ruin the entire bunch. Unfortunately, the bad apples are working overtime to poison the rest of us and it's working.

Our pride is gone, our common courtesy dismissed and it is really just a sad feeling witnessing some of the things that happen daily around campus.

All I'm asking is that we all work to be better, want better, and do better, that is all.

Whitney Harris