Cops

 There is a huge problem in my eyes with the police force here at Clemson. I feel that there are way too many of them and they are too strict in general.  Now don’t get me wrong I know they are keeping the peace but they need to tone down their ticket happy mentality. Last semester I was driving 44 mph in a 40 and I was pulled over. Like are you kidding me?, I thought he was joking when walked up to me. He then proceeded to lecture me for over ten minutes on the importance of driving safe. On another occasion I was pulled over one night while I was pledge driving. When the cop approached me, he instantly had an attitude and was convinced that I had been drinking. I told him that I was sober driving and I haven't had a sip of alcohol that night. He didn’t believe me and decided that I needed to perform a sobriety test. It was late I was clearly tired and this really ticked me off. The Clemson police also have been doing random dorm room checks lately. This has become very annoying as they knock on your doors and check up on you. It feels like they are trying to get you anyway that they can. 
-Connor 

Terrible Food

Everyone’s main fear with starting college is the dreadful “freshman fifteen.”  It is general knowledge that all college freshmen gain fifteen pounds the first year of food just from eating more and the unhealthy food that they eat.  But since I’ve been at Clemson, I’ve actually lost weight!  The dining halls have such terrible food, I don’t see how anyone can eat too much food from there.  All of the food is very unhealthy, but it tastes so bad I usually just don’t eat.  And since the dining halls close so early, if you get hungry after dark, there isn’t really anywhere to go eat.  Clemson has to change the dining hall food or I’m going to starve to death before I graduate!

-Dylan Burton

Crazy Roommate

My roommate is a complete psychopath.  I’m afraid to go to sleep at night with him in the same room.  When I applied for rooming at Clemson, I just did random roommate assignments because I didn’t know anyone else that went here.  That was a huge mistake.  My roommate gets arrested every other weekend for ridiculous stuff, and I’m pretty sure he deals drugs out of our dorm.  He is the sketchiest person I’ve ever been around.  I’m just counting the days to the end of the semester so I can move out and never see his face again!

-Dylan Burton

Redfern Robber

For the last few weeks of school, I have been terrified to walk outside at night.  A while back, a crazed maniac brutally robbed our campus pharmacy, and since that day, I feel unsafe when I’m alone.  The “Redfern Robber” has terrorized our entire campus and has made us realize that we are never safe, no matter where we are.  It is a reality check to everyone that a psycho could rob them and steal all their drugs from them when they’re just minding their own business, walking to class.  I for one cannot even imagine how scary it would be for a guy in sunglasses and a hoodie to take all  my drugs from me.  Clemson must do something to make it safer for their students.

-Dylan Burton

Study Room

Study Room....Enter at your own risk.

Living in Byrnes this year has been a blast but its no the best place to try and study. It always sucks when you are trying to study in your dorm room and can't because you are too busy trying to catch the lady bugs that are flying around and landing on you. There is always the study room though... if its not locked most of the time. The study room is always randomly locked for some reason or someone is in there and has it locked because they are in there with a girlfreind "studying". However, there are some times when the study room is open and is a great place to study, until people on the hall realize it is open and decide that would be a great place to hang out and talk while pretending to study. If you are trying to do well in college it is not recomended that you study in Byrnes because you will not get much done if anything.

-John Mark

Freshman Parking

Now that freshmen have to park out at the Kite Hill parking lot, Clemson makes a lot of money off parking tickets. I did not get one ticket first semester, but now that I have to park a mile away from where I live I have received five tickets this semester. I also have many friends who have recieve multiple parking tickets this semester. It is such a pain to walk a mile just to get your car.  Once you have it out you really dont feel like putting it back until you absolutely have to. The reason I have five tickets this semester is because I have had my car out a few hours before you are allowed to park in green spots and have not felt like parking it just to get it out in a few hours. So, I take a risk and hope I don't get a ticket for parking in a green spot for a few hours. It is also stupid that you cannot park in the horseshoe and sheep barn green spots until after 7:30 everyday which has led to most of my tickets. Clemson parking services are stealing students money and something needs to change.

-John Mark

No Ceilings

The school year is just about over and I am ready to be through with dorm life. It has been a great year and dorm life is not all bad but there are just some things about dorm life that I am ready to leave in the past. The thing that bothers me the most about living in a dorm is people making a mess of the place and not cleaning up after themselves. Every weekend Byrnes gets trashed and is a mess for the whole weekend until the cleaning people come in. People will spill there beer or throw up in the hallway or the evlevator and not bother to clean it up so everyone else has to put up with it all weekend. There are also people who like to knock out the ceiling tiles in the elevator rooms and leave the tiles everywhere. There is always trash all over the bathroom and in the stairwells that just makes a mess. I am ready to get out of this dump and move into an apartment.
-John Mark