Arguement on the Provision of Cable Television on College Campuses
There is a Problem with Having Cable Television on College Campuses Eleven o'clock on a Tuesday night, walking through the brightly lit halls, many doors wide open in a dormitory complex on the campus of Bowling Green State University, one can see that the only light that emerges from the open doors is the constantly changing illumination coming from television consoles. Passing from door to door, sounds such as sports cheers, gun shots, screams of people being slain, and moans of woman in ecstasy can be heard. Although many students have the time to watch the television, many of them don't. The televisions utter no words of mathematics or Biology. Because of this horrid "accommodation" provided by the college, the quality of students intellectually, morally, and physically has made a sudden turn for the worst. Some ignorant persons argue that cable television provides quality educational programs to students and helps them to cut lose after a hard day of studying, but the true harsh reality is that cable television, due to the vast amount of extremely worthless channels such as HBO, Cinnemax, and, of course, MTV, do nothing but discourage interpersonal relationships and association, provide a distraction, inspire sl
The physical and mental health of campus living students is also affected by the provision of cable television. The physical health of the average college student is another thing that is at risk by an excessive amount of attention paid to the television. The impact that the television has on discouraging physical activity on a college campus is another major problem that has been brought about by the coming of cable television. For example, instead of going to the recreation center and playing Marco Polo in the pool, or a good game of ping pong, students are spending there time in front of the television, eating cheesy poofs, watching their body deteriorate. Students, in the winter, should be building snowmen or seeing who can run the farthest out onto a frozen pond without the ice breaking. Students should be out riding their bikes on the interstate or riding down the steps of the bookstore on tricycles. They should be out doing athletic things like greasing a pig and trying to catch it as it runs through the residence halls. People may say that there are aerobics classes on the cable television. This is true, but the great majority of people never use them and aerobics classes are offered at the recreation center. This is not saying that all students should participate in rigourous physical activity, these statements only are used to show that the television is definitely a deterrence of physical activity of this type. The mental side effects, closely linked with the physical aspects of television watching, are also very apparent. The television warps the mind into a lower state of consciousness. It discourages complex thought processes and demotivates students from achieving their goals, weather short term or long term. There is still no real benefit to cable television unless you want to call violent and raunchy programs a benefit. oth, and install thoughts of sex and violence into the easily malleable minds of students, especially younger freshman and sophomores living on campus. Some people have views that cable television is beneficial to students. In this fictional scenario, one can see the arrival of the idea of cable television onto the campus of Bowling Green State University. The administrators while sitting around their monstrous finely polished eastern oak table in their soft reclinable chairs, smoking their illegally imported cigars, thought of what seemed to be en ingenious idea. They thought of a
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