What am I supposed to eat?

I’m here writing about the Furman Dinning Hall.  This is something I think most of us have the same opinion on.  The Dining Hall is not a good enough source of food for college students.  The food they put out is on occasion good, but usually terrible.  What upsets me the most is the meal options on the weekends that Furman provides.  On one occasion the only thing that was available to eat was chicken nuggets.  How am I supposed to get the nutrition much less be satisfied eating processed chicken nuggets that test like rubber?  And the worst part about it is the pden and paddock are also closed during the weekend.  It is like Furman wants to starve their students on the weekends so we have no energy to do anything.

I realize Furman is a smaller college but I would still like more food options later at night other than Einstein’s.  Why would I want an overpriced bagel at midnight?  Furman should invest in putting a restaurant on campus that is open 24/7, I realize that would be kind of costly but all waffle house stores already are open all day every day.  How hard would it be to put a diner like waffle house on campus somewhere.  I realize that it may not look the best having a restaurant building on campus, but I think Furman is too worried about how the campus appeals to outsiders than keeping the students that spend four years of their lives here happy. 

The Furman dining hall should upgrade their quality of food, and stay open longer.  I would like to go to the dining hall after eight o’clock especially when practice ends at seven or seven-thirty. I have to rush over and eat the scrapes of what is left over from dinner that day.  It is hard as an athlete to get the amount of food I need from the dining hall.  I have lost close to ten pounds coming to college because I am just not getting the nutrition or amount of food I need.          

Response to Sydney

I agree with Sydney on this issue.  To be honest knowing Sydney and her usual comments in class I thought this was going to be some outrageous feminist paper.  But thankfully I was wrong.  I didn’t really know this was a topic that was a problem in society seeing how I have never been accused of rape.  But as I looked deeper into it, this is a very prevalent problem men have.  Women usually get the advantage in these situations because men are usually thought of as pigs.  I am proud to say that I am not a pig and all men are given a terrible stereotype when it comes to sex.  Men are always the ones who are blamed for rape, sexual harassment, and sexual abuse.  Now yes men usually are the culprit, but men are raped, abused, and harassed by women.  Now probably not as much but this should be brought to the attention of society as well.  Women are not all sparkles and rainbows.  Some women can be mean cold blooded killers.  Women are just as effective at doing bad things as men are. 

Women that do bring false rape charges to court should be punished.  Accusing someone of rape is a very serious thing, that goes on a man’s record and when future jobs look at that no one wants to hire a rapist even if they weren’t convicted.  This ruins a man’s reputation.  Also the amount of cost that goes into lawyers and court fees is astronomical.  No man should have to pay for all this if they never did anything wrong. 

What I think this all comes down to is some people are desperate for attention.  Women just say they were raped to get attention and cause a scene by doing this.  And if they win the case they will get a lot of money and aid in the future.  If they don’t win nothing happens to the women, it’s a win win situation for women to accuse men of rape.  That is a sad realization that some women are taking advantage of.             

Response to Matthew

From reading this blog post it just made me think about the death penalty and if it is the right thing to do or not.  Coming from a Catholic background I am against the death penalty, you cannot justify the act of killing another human being in cold blood.  God gives us the ability to repent and forgive our sins, so no matter what we do, God will be the final person to judge us and decide whether or not we deserve to move on from this life and go to the next.  As these men are being killed on death row they are losing time God has given them to repent for what they did and accept God as their savior.  God created life and should be the only one to decide when to take it away.   

Also the death penalty is very hypocritical and not very economical beneficial to anyone.  Most of the people on death row are serial murders/rapist, but as the United States government kills more and more of these criminals they are doing the same thing these people are being punished for.  Two wrongs do not make a right, killing is bad and always will be.  Also it is not cost effective to kill a man, much time in a court room and proper steps must be taken to kill a man.  All in all killing a man is more expensive for the United States than it would be to keep him in jail for over 20 years. 

Now Matthew relates all this to what is happening with ISIS and Jordon, what I think is that neither of these people are correct for killing these men.  ISIS killed and videotaped it to create publicity for themselves, which I think is one of the worst reasons you could have for killing someone.  But because ISIS did kill these men Jordon had to respond or other countries would not respect Jordon and things would end up worse for Jordon.  I think ISIS is responsible for all of these deaths even though Jordon did kill the captured terrorist, they wouldn’t have if not provoked by ISIS to do so.