Central Lets the Students Down

Did any body else find it negligent and uncalled for that the students of Central had to take their finals on Friday?

With every meteorologist calling for a massive amount of snow on Friday that would make the drives home for the students and many others treacherous, Central a commuter school for the most part decided that we students should still have our scheduled exams.

The school decided it was in the “best interest” of the students to take their finals, rather than be able to pack up and early drive home to beat the weather that was soon to encompass the state.

Why did we have to take our exams when the governor sent the state employees home because it would have been unsafe for them to drive home at the time they normally would have had to leave from work, while almost every school district in the state was closed for the day? The smart decision would have been to postpone the exams to keep the students from having to drive home in the snow. Central though decided that we students should take our exams.

What options could the school have come up with rather than make the students take their finals on Friday.

Option 1: The school could have moved finals back until Saturday, Monday, or until after the winter break.

Option 2: If they really wanted to have us take our finals the school should have let us stay in our dorms until Saturday morning instead of kicking us out by 3 o’clock on Friday.

This may be a trivial issue to many of you who were either out of school already and were safely home, but for those of us who had the unfortunate adventure of having to brave the highways to get home from school this was not a fun experience.

President Miller and the rest of the school should be ashamed of themselves for making the students take exams when the weather was so bad outside or was just getting bad when we had to make our trips home, when there were two very solid options at the schools disposal.

I will close this by saying shame on you President Miller and Central Connecticut State University; you guys decided that the exams scheduled for Friday were more important than those of students who pay a good amount of money to attend your university. Professor Matthew Warshauer was right in suggesting the faculty senate propose a vote of no confidence in you last year. I now feel the same; I have no confidence in you or the school to protect the students.