Over the past few months the Brock University Centre for the Arts has been looking into the possibility of moving their facilities to downtown St. Catharines. Despite the logistical nightmare that could come with having a facility downtown, the idea has gained a lot of support with the right people; namely the ones who can make it a reality.
Over the next few weeks we will be hearing a lot about the "hot button" issues that the BUSU executive candidates will be talking about. The Universal Bus Pass, the Code of Conduct, even the flat fee tuition structure, but the number one topic which trumps all of those, and is much harder to fix, is student apathy.
In public we cringe at the thought of pornography. We turn our noses up to this supposed perverse form of entertainment and present ourselves as being somehow above the low lifes and creeps who view that stuff. Unfortunately for our mythologized public image, it is more likely than not that we have at some time viewed pornography.
In theory, the Olympic games are meant to be about the athletes rather than politics. However, there is a long history of the politicization of the games primarily through the use of boycotts. The 1936 Olympics held in Nazi Germany is probably the earliest example of an Olympics where the ethics of participation became very controversial.
Re: Code of Conduct It is reasonable to assume that when students are on the university's property, they should conduct themselves within a decorum defined by the institution. We consent to its guidance upon our shoulder. When we leave the halls of the literati and re-enter the community, we take knowledge with us to assist us in the formation of our own morality.
