Seats
Seats! Seats! Seats!
Have you ever experienced or witnessed the unpleasant situation where you walk into a classroom, or the library, or the canteen, only to find that most of the desks have already been occupied by books, bags, or other personal belongings, while the “owners” are not present? This kind of improper behavior can easily be found in almost all the Chinese schools, particularly in universities.
To tackle this stubborn illness, we ought to sort out some of the major reasons and take specified actions to deal with them.
When the number of seats is insufficient enough to meet the need of the students, desk-occupation emerges, thus leading to the aforementioned immoral scene.
Let’s take Guixiangyuan for example. There are 150tables on the second floor, providing 600 seats, but it serves 6000 to 9000 students every day. There are 4 main teaching buildings and several dormitory buildings in the west part of our school, but there are only 2 canteens there. In rush hours, students squeeze into the canteens and tend to occupy seats as long as they see one. As we can see, occupying seats is a very serious problem in Guixiangyuan (especially on the second floor). Students are afraid of having no place of learning or eating. However, using personal belongings to occupy seats may exacerbate the scarcity of facilities. And when the seats are occupied by a few students, the rest will have a strong feeling of injustice.
To solve this tough problem, both university authorities and students should do their best to solve the problem. The school should put in more money to build more reading rooms and canteens so that everyone is able to have a seat.
Another way to get rid of seat-occupation is to educate the students not to occupy seats in public places. Only in this way can we see some real progress. Learning is a process to shape one’s morality, not to lower one’s behaviors. Thus those rude social illnesses such as occupying seats should not be seen among the
Have you ever experienced or witnessed the unpleasant situation where you walk into a classroom, or the library, or the canteen, only to find that most of the desks have already been occupied by books, bags, or other personal belongings, while the “owners” are not present? This kind of improper behavior can easily be found in almost all the Chinese schools, particularly in universities.
To tackle this stubborn illness, we ought to sort out some of the major reasons and take specified actions to deal with them.
When the number of seats is insufficient enough to meet the need of the students, desk-occupation emerges, thus leading to the aforementioned immoral scene.
Let’s take Guixiangyuan for example. There are 150tables on the second floor, providing 600 seats, but it serves 6000 to 9000 students every day. There are 4 main teaching buildings and several dormitory buildings in the west part of our school, but there are only 2 canteens there. In rush hours, students squeeze into the canteens and tend to occupy seats as long as they see one. As we can see, occupying seats is a very serious problem in Guixiangyuan (especially on the second floor). Students are afraid of having no place of learning or eating. However, using personal belongings to occupy seats may exacerbate the scarcity of facilities. And when the seats are occupied by a few students, the rest will have a strong feeling of injustice.
To solve this tough problem, both university authorities and students should do their best to solve the problem. The school should put in more money to build more reading rooms and canteens so that everyone is able to have a seat.
Another way to get rid of seat-occupation is to educate the students not to occupy seats in public places. Only in this way can we see some real progress. Learning is a process to shape one’s morality, not to lower one’s behaviors. Thus those rude social illnesses such as occupying seats should not be seen among the