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

Random Roommate

My first mistake going into college was choosing to have a random roommate. When I first met my roommate I knew I was in for one long awkward year. We shook hands and he didn’t even look me in the eyes. I felt that he was almost scared of my presence. However, I let it go as I figured he was just shy and would open up eventually. As the year began I initiated conversation with him but very little progress was made. If I tried to start a conversation maybe a three word response would come from him. There was also an occasion when I would come home and we would not talk the whole day. It was like living with a complete stranger. I felt closer to my RA than I did with my roommate, as we literally knew nothing about each other. There would also be times where I wouldn’t see him for like 5 days at a time. I always wondered where he was and if he would ever come back. In the back of my mind I was honestly excited because I thought there was a chance he was changing buildings. We were complete opposites and destined to fail from the start. Many people like choosing random roommates but I am a clear example of this option going horribly wrong.
-Connor

Schilletter

Dining halls at Clemson are a complete joke. With Clemson being such a prestigious school you would think there dining hall food would at least be tolerable. Coming from up north, all I heard about was how good the food was and to be honest I was very disappointed. There are very little options for food and the majority of the time, the food is gross. I don’t consider myself a picky eater but when I eat at schilletter I feel like I am forcing food down my throat. I was eating a burger there once and I had to catch myself before I threw up on my friend. I mean honestly how hard is it to cook a burger, but yet they find a way to screw it up. The burgers taste rubbery and are very hard to consume. This of course forces me to eat off campus almost every day. I have spent literally hundreds of dollars on fast food over this year. With this, comes yelling from the parents as I am blowing through their money.
-Connor

Music Maniacs

One thing that really annoys me about living on campus, particularly in Mauldin Hall, is that everyone on my hall feels the need to blare music constantly. At any point in the day there will be around five people blaring music down the halls with their doors open to make matters worse. The worst part about this is, is that all the music is completely different. One person will be playing rap while another is jamming out to some country. I mean I am not a fan of country music and when its competing with rap, it sounds like nails on a chalk board. On top of this we have this one kid who feels the need to play blaring techno 24/7. Hearing this techno makes you feel like you’re at some underground rave with people just fist pumping everywhere. Our RA’s are pretty much nonexistent and so of course this music issue will most likely never stop.
-Connor