2008 Woodie Awards
President Meyers ignores health of all students
Issue date: 10/11/07 Section: Letters to the Editor
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Recent articles regarding the behavior of President Meyers have been nothing short of enraging! As your readers know, he is formulating an edict to make our campus smoke free citing the health benefits and recent movements of hospital campuses as support for his decision.
If President Meyers is truly concerned with the health of his students, why stop with smoking?
Has he noticed the mold in campus buildings, poor dietary choices in the cafeteria or insufficient exercise equipment in the campus gym? A commitment to health should be an all or nothing philosophy rather than an extension of one man's personal agenda.
Next, comparing Webster University to a hospital is absurd! St. John's hospital in St. Louis has been one of the leaders in establishing smoke-free environments for the sole purpose of insuring the best environment for the healing of its patients. How ensuring an adequate healing environment is applicable to a college campus is puzzling.
In response to students' pleas to designate smoking areas, Meyers responded: "It would be very expensive and given the need for classrooms, I'd rather spend money on classrooms." A very noble quote, however, after dropping $100,000 on that patch of grass, it lacks credibility at best.
As students and paying customers, we need to put our feet down on the ludicrous policies and frivolous spending of our "president." It is all too clear that his decision making is based solely on whims and lacks the careful investigation and planning that a university demands.
Jonathan Shirshekan
Junior, Biology and Mathematics
If President Meyers is truly concerned with the health of his students, why stop with smoking?
Has he noticed the mold in campus buildings, poor dietary choices in the cafeteria or insufficient exercise equipment in the campus gym? A commitment to health should be an all or nothing philosophy rather than an extension of one man's personal agenda.
Next, comparing Webster University to a hospital is absurd! St. John's hospital in St. Louis has been one of the leaders in establishing smoke-free environments for the sole purpose of insuring the best environment for the healing of its patients. How ensuring an adequate healing environment is applicable to a college campus is puzzling.
In response to students' pleas to designate smoking areas, Meyers responded: "It would be very expensive and given the need for classrooms, I'd rather spend money on classrooms." A very noble quote, however, after dropping $100,000 on that patch of grass, it lacks credibility at best.
As students and paying customers, we need to put our feet down on the ludicrous policies and frivolous spending of our "president." It is all too clear that his decision making is based solely on whims and lacks the careful investigation and planning that a university demands.
Jonathan Shirshekan
Junior, Biology and Mathematics
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