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Issue date: 4/25/05 Section: Opinions

To the smokers of Lewis University: Keep our cancer to yourselves! [Click to enlarge]

Sometimes it seems like Lewis will fine students for almost anything. Between parking, stay over break, damages, and business office fees, the money can add up pretty quick. The fines can hit a broke college student hard. With tuition constantly on the rise and the school needing to appropriately gather fees for maintenance it seems like fines are necessary to keep the school up and running.

I have an idea for a group that already gets hated on enough that no one will notice a little more: smokers. The newest fine at Lewis University should be a littering fine for those that toss their cigarettes away instead of disposing of them properly. There are so many places to toss garbage around each building entrance, where most smokers hang out. It seems so simple that those creating so much garbage should be held accountable for it, ergo; this fine should have been instituted long ago.

The grounds people at Lewis are on the front lines of dealing with the constant crap being done to this campus and cigarette clean up is on the forefront of time wasting for these people. In front of Sheil Hall alone there are 43 cigarette butts on a rough count. Turn that into $430 in fines if it were possible to catch the littering smokers and put that in a pool to try to curb rising tuition to nonsmoking students.

Unfair? Sure, but that's never bothered people before; that's a big dose of what life is. I think it's unfair to ask the people that keep this school looking clean to clean up vomit in the bathroom and urine on the carpets after a good weekend. It's unfair to make people walk through smoke every time they go into a building around campus. It is unfair for the outdoor maintenance people to simply be janitors for lazy students unable to dispose of a cigarette in one of the many facilities placed around smoking areas.

Go ahead, light your torches cancer merchants; I grow weary of the cloud of smoke that inevitably rises from every entrance I pass through. Throw a fit and make some noise, I doubt anyone will be able to hear it from tar black lungs

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