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BU OpinionsOpinion

Matters of Opinion

by Aynae Simmons
Communication • 2021

We asked Bluefield College students to share what’s on their mind. What do they enjoy about BC? What do they think needs improvement? What are they happy about? What are their concerns? Below is a compilation of their “matters of opinion.”

  • Savannah Dame, Sports Management

    “Within the past three years I have been at Bluefield College, I have seen them change a budget for a sports team at the snap of their fingers. I know football has the biggest budget because of the number of players, but that doesn’t mean we get the luxury of what other teams have. After completing laundry from practice and games, I have to step into the locker rooms and put it back into their lockers. The lockers are extremely molded. Breathing in mold is not healthy for anyone. I am actually allergic to the strand of mold that is in the locker rooms. I can’t be in the locker rooms for more than five minutes without breaking into hives.”

  • Von Perry, Cybersecurity

    “Classes are weak. I feel like my high school was harder than this.”

  • Chelsea Ford, Sports Management

    “I like the Sims Center because it’s just a good environment to be there. I’m there every day. I like seeing people work hard, and Coach (Rodney) Kasey, he’s the man.”

  • Omega Webb, Undecided

    “The football locker rooms are old and moldy, and they need to get renovated.”

  • Kristin Storer, Criminal Justice

    “I feel like campus security is not here to protect us, but to give us tickets.”

  • Farah Schweers, Forensic Science

    “It’s really boring. Like we don’t have anything on campus. Like even the chairs outside (are) something, and we don’t have (them) anymore or anything.”

  • Madison Brewster, Accounting

    “I think they should color coordinate the parking spots to the dorms.”

  • Maclaine Kirkley, Business Management

    “The cafeteria is still really bad.”

  • Tessa Saiia, Special Education

    “There’s a huge disconnect when it comes to communication, not only between faculty and students but between faculty and other faculty and staff on campus.”

  • Benjamin Mays, History

    “I wish the criteria (for admission) was a little bit stronger, because a lot of times we bring in students that are not equipped for college. There’s no essay you have to write, and you can do not too hot on the SAT or ACT and still make it in. So sometimes I feel that we bring in students that we’re setting up for failure, and they’re going into debt and paying a lot of money without really knowing what college entails. I think you can look at their track record in high school and if they have a 1.7 GPA and we bring them in on academic probation, then is that really the right thing to do?”

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