Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Please Mister Lester Lefton!!

I'll be the first to admit I was just as reluctant to everyone else to welcome a man by the name of Lester A. Lefton to be new President of our fine university when Carol Cartwright retired a year or two ago. Lester A. Lefton.... doesn't it just have a funny ring to it? The name sounds so noble, yet a little silly, and well, we just didn't know.

But in he came.

He made changes, good changes and we realized that it was possible for Presidents to leave their office and actually listen to the students, the people who actually make the University what it is. He even began sending out "In A Flash: Weekly Message from President Lefton," these weekly emails that some whine and call boring, but honestly? Would you rather have a President who didn't care?? That's what I thought.

And with the advent of this friendly new man running our campus came this little thing called *snow days*. If I recall correctly, we did not have a single snow day under Cartwright's reign, but so far Lester has given us 2! Yep, I vividly recall missing Nutrition last spring in hmm, I believe it was March? and then 2 weeks ago, he gave us a Tuesday off. And now, pleeeease Lester, we love you and your kind ways.... today of all days, would you pleeeeease just grant us one more snow day? I'm still getting over the flu, we have a stupid make-a-drug-commercial project going on in lab (instructor thought that one up all on her own, imagine that), 10 drug sheets due (at least mine are done, but still, that's beside the point...), annnnd you know what? I'm tired. I need a nap. And I have lots of stuff to do because students- especially nursing students are people too. We're not study-zombies, much to everyone's disbelief.

So please, Mr. Lefton... I picture you sitting by the window in your second floor office of the Library (the tallest building in the entire Portage county, I'll have you know!)... snow coming down... you are pensive... hand on your chin, finger under your mouth... thinking... thinking... thinking.... "I know I cancelled morning classes, but should I cancel afternoon classes as well?" Keep thinking, Mr. Lefton. Look hard at the snow. Doesn't it just make you feel yucky and chilly? And you can even take a snow day too - surely being our President isn't that fun.

Please Mister Lester A. Lefton, pleeeeeeeasssseeee!!

Thank you :)