A little bit of this, a little bit of that

This past Sunday I made a trip to the University of Victoria in hopes of getting some work done since my computer is down and not working. I arrived at the library and logged on to the internet to realize that the discussion forums I needed to work on had just about nothing posted on them, making that a waste of time. Since I also have a statistics final this Friday I only assumed it would be best if I got busy practicing it and making my cheat sheet that our teacher has so wonderfully allowed us. To add to my successful trip I soon realized I didn’t have what I needed to work on that either. After stewing around for a few minutes attempting to have any good purpose for being there I finally gave up and walked to the bus station.

Going to the bus station I saw something that made the trip all worthwhile. An idea for a blog topic. While waiting for the bus to arrive I was standing just outside of the UVic bookstore and saw that they have a sort of newspaper stand where they have numerous papers available to the students. Some different papers I noticed were the Cinecenta paper that listed upcoming shows to be played at the on campus theatre with a bit more general information regarding on campus film news and what have you. There was also a couple newspapers tailored to students in such programs as business and general newspapers for everyone. They also had a newspaper that gets produced from their radio station that operates on campus.

I knew that a university that size would obviously have a newspaper, but to have so many based on different topics was pretty impressive. A sure fire way to get the student community involved. Then I thought about Royal Roads and how we don’t even have a newspaper or letter of any kind. I also thought about the “promises” given by the candidates running for student council president. A common promise from all of them was a newsletter/newspaper or radio station to get students involved and to ensure that students had a way to keep up to date with what was happening on campus. As of yet I have seen no progress towards any of these ideas, nor have I seen the elected president drop by the Environmental program to talk to us and see if we had any concerns or ideas. Realizing we have elected class representatives to address such things, the president is still the president and was elected to “represent” the student body. This led me to think about the RRU student community.

It seems that each cohort this year has decided to stick to their own. I wonder what we could possibly learn from simply sticking to talking and hanging out with the people we see every day in our program. I also begin to wonder why there is such a disconnect between each program and I realized that it’s because we have nothing to relate to each other. If we had even one newsletter for the school, perhaps we would be able to get students from every cohort together working, getting to know each other and meeting new friends. The possibilities are endless as we have nothing, but to gain from each other’s knowledge.

Perhaps the next step would be to bring these topics up with our student council president. To find out what he has done so far to help out the student body in general. To find out what progress he’s made towards this newsletter or if that was simply a ploy to get the position.