ON THE RAGE ON CAMPUS – POP-CORN

Recently, a friend of mine (T-elti), posted on her 2go status this caption: “A virus is widely spreading in BUK new campus. Guess what?” I have to admit, with shame it took me a while to guess right the name of this virus. At last I got it! In my own English: “Pop-cornilisation” – the new form of socialisation on campus.

Let me register my surprise and contempt at the level this socialisation has eaten deep into the skin of most students. And I should quickly point out that my argument is not against the pop-corn itself nor its maker, but at the way students on this campus have turn the development into a thing of disgrace and shame on our  level of education.

I stand to be corrected on my suppositions here, but I remember clearly without any atom of doubt whatsoever that one of the morals imparted in us in our Health Education classes from our primary school level is “code of conduct on the road” of which eating while on the road (walking or driving) was seriously frowned at. It’s now a common frenzy to see students everywhere on campus eating pop-corn while walking. And some have taken this repugnant act to their various classes. My amazement was concealed a little when I saw guys in this act, judging from our carefree attitude; but I was stupefied beyond doubt to realise that our ladies, known for their propriety, are now a partner in this amoral act. This virulent disease is ignominious and its rate of spreading is alarming.

T-elti asked me a question which I am now asking all serious minded students: “What happened to the teachings on thou shall not eat while on the road?”  We as future leaders should be pace-setters of morality not destroyers of established morality.

I should make my standing clear to avoid misconceptions. This write-up, as some shallow minded people cannot but point out, is not an envious write-up against the maker of this said pop-corn. As a matter of fact if given the right, I’ll vote for the maker as the entrepreneur of the year. That being said however, morality shouldn’t give way for westernization in the guise of modernisation; eating on the road is a bad habit which should be frowned upon by all parties involve.

Let us join our hands together to fight this epidemic (eating on the road) before it spreads beyond our control.