Aside from the littering aspect, I think this smoking ban is nonsense. If UND cared about health it wouldn’t force feed deep fried potatoes stuffed with cheese to every dorm student with a mandatory meal plan. And they wouldn’t serve pasta drowning in Alfredo and nachos at 1030 at night. But the arguments by this Facebook group are just so weak, it really makes me sad.
Join us in our battle against the unfair policies being imposed upon us by the University of North Dakota! Smokers have rights too.
Smoking is not a right, not in a restaurant in Grand Forks, soon not to be in a bar in Minnesota, and no longer here at UND. Just as it is not a right to drink alcohol in the dorms or hold demonstrations during getting started week, smoking on campus is not protected.
Compromises such as not smoking withing 20 feet of a doorway are acceptable, but the complete ban of smoking on campus is excessive and we need to make our opinions known!
If it was so acceptable then why did you continue to violate the University’s polices? Every building on campus has a posted sign on the window that says no smoking within 20 feet of a building entrance and yet you people are stacked up in front of Gamble on all sides, the faculty are constantly huddled right next to the back door of Twamley, and you cant drive by a dorm without masses of smokers blocking the entrances in a big smoke circle. Face it. UND tried to get you away from the buildings and out of everyone’s faces but you scoffed at them. You proved the reasonable policy ineffective, so now the next “acceptable” step is to ban smoking.
Friday October 5, 2007 we shall gather outside of the Memorial Union and breathe deeply the sweet taste of freedom! JOIN US!
And surely break the 20 foot rule. You will stand there and subject others to your smoking, while claiming you don’t, and you will break the law by tossing your disgusting buts on the ground to display what truly revolting slobs you people really are. I hope that not only are you cited for smoking, but fined for littering as well. You people turn the world into your dumpster simply because you are to lazy to throw your cigarettes away when you are done with them and its high time it came back to bite you in the ass.
So have fun with your protest, exercise your freedom now when you can change nothing, instead of protesting at the senate meeting that gave student body approval to the ban. Stand outside of the Union and prove to the administrators what a great idea this really is.