CGS v. The Rest of the University…It Needs to Stop

Brothers and Sisters! I call upon you put down your pens and pads in both your defense and slander of the College of General Studies. The fighting over whether the workload in one school is harder than another has to stop. The quarreling over the intelligence of the student body of one college as compared to another on campus needs to desist. This name-calling and childish behavior must be brought to a standstill. These issues, that both sides are trying to argue, are not going to be solved by either side trying to one up each other with new put downs or statistics. Instead this conversation, which it should be instead of the argument that it has turned into, need to shift its focus away from insults and on to something more positive. People need to focus on the facts that while ALL students start college with various strengths and weaknesses and when they come to this university that people have different approaches to dealing with academics. Everyone who comes to Boston University, no matter what school or college he or she is enrolled in, all come to this institution with the same exact goal: to obtain an outstanding education. Whether that leads people down the path of starting their first two years of their higher education in the College of General Studies or has them spending four-years in one college at BU should not matter. We should not be trying to lump people into a category because of the path they take to obtain a degree. Rather, time should be sent on trying to get to know that person as a human being and not as a stereotype. As educated people it should be our mission to try to foster understanding amongst everyone instead of bickering with each other over something as trivial as the three-letter acronym that is associated with their education.

Nathan Fein Boston University ’06 CGS ’04, SED ’06 Phone Number: 617-967-7117 Email: nhfein@bu.edu

As a CGS alum, and more importantly a Boston University student, i think this fighting needs to stop.