(Belated) Ideas

So I had all these cool ideas for reforms that I was going to post here and debate with myself (or any comments) in order to decide which one I wanted to do. Then I mixed that paper up with some history doodles and never got around to finding it again until now. Thank you room cleaning! Some of these ideas are a little less serious than others, or aren't really good ideas for this type of project, but maybe they could be a part of a bigger idea.

First, I wanted to increase the classes offered for the Classical Studies minor. There's hardly any classes being offered, and two of them are Honors classes (which is ok for me) but I think non-Honors students would have a very hard time getting in to such a class because they would probably fill up quickly. There are a few History classes, a few English and Religion classes, and Greek. Of those, maybe 3 or so (not counting the 2 honors classes) have been offered since I've been at TCU. But....of course this reform doesn't really affect that many people, and mostly it would involve hiring more faculty or making current faculty teach more classes, or substituting Classical Studies classes for more popular ones, so in the end, I decided against this.

I thought about reforming the food service because let's face it: it kind of sucks. The "Corner Store" (what's wrong with Frog Bytes, huh?) is basically a candy and junk food store. What happened to the real food that we could get last year? And no, instant ramen does NOT count as real food. I'm thinking of the pasta boxes, like hamburger helper, or cake mixes (ok so that's still junk food), the baking supplies, the sliced deli meats, stuff you could actually live on. Not rows of chips and candy bars. This could actually have been a kind of fun reform to do, but I still ended up doing something else.

A less serious reform: tell someone at Market Square that the black floor mats they have for you to wipe your feet on don't do any good when THEY'RE OUTSIDE IN THE RAIN. Seriously. The mats are outside. Soaking wet (even after the rain's stopped) so students walk in with wet shoes and make a mess. Why aren't the mats inside?? Sure, maybe a wet mat gets more dirt off than a dry one (maybe), but dirt + water = mud. That just doesn't make any sense to me.

And then there's the reform that I actually decided on: recycling. Increasing both awareness of the importance of recycling and the amount of recycling done on campus. More details to come :)