Special Treatment Feb 20, 2004 08:49:48 PM
Ok, it was early this morning between classes, i was sitting at my desk reading the college newspaper waiting for the teacher to arrive. Things were going pretty good this morning, i had just kicked a quiz's rear, and i was feeling great. Then, like a drunken bi-polar psychotic, i had a complete attitude reversal. Something about the artical i was reading just triggered something in me. like i had a ''get pissed off button'' that was accidently placed in the lobby of an over crowded dorm lobby and some drunken kids were hitting it rapidly and violently as the decreped elevator slowly decended the shafts. Any way, as you may or may not know, our star football player, Marcus Vick, is in some legal trouble for underage drinking and contributing to the delinquence of a minor. But thats not what pissed me off, what pisses me off is the actions the shcool is going to take toward him.
think back to high school, you ever notice how if a crime is commited by a jock, they usually get off pretty easy no matter how serious the charge? i mean i can think of several kids right now who were caught multiple times for drugs, alcohol, or destruction of private property who were given nothing more than a formal slap on the wriste. Now if the exact same crime was commited (or not commited...hmmm....shane...) by anyone else, they would slap them with criminal charges, probation, suspension, and who knows what other sadistic things they could think up.
Well up to now, i thought this was all just corruption in the higher branches. the sole product of favory versus pejudice. According to them though, it was mearly our imaginations, everyone is treated the same.
turns out this isnt always the case every where. Apparently, at this fine school, it is actually a documented ordanince, that Athletes are exempt from normal judical action. thats right, if your a jock you are BETTER than everyone!! how freakin fair is that. if you play a sport, and know nothing of the world around you because your too busy pumping iron and eating your steroids for breakfast, you are above the law.
here is the actual litterature: ''Corrective Action Plan of Virginia Tech no. 45.3: Athletes are not automatically suspended for misdemeanor charges''. after further research of this, i found that athletes are allowed an appeal hearing infront of a counsil of their choosing, yeah like their not going to pick their coaches and trainers. anyone else is imediately EXPELLED for a minimum of one semester. holy crap!! how is that fair!? well wait, i better think about this again.....Sooooo.......i would get kicked out.....and he gets yelled at.......hmmmm.....yeah, my bad, thats perfectly fair.
and the final thought:
Now granted im sure these athletes have done alot more for the university than i have, and loosing them as aposed to me would be like loosing an asset, or enrolled celebrity, but am i wrong to think for even one second that he shouldn't get off as easy as me? am i wrong to think that becasue he's an untouchable he shouldn't be rewarded for inapropriate misconduct? I should hope not, hes a role model to alot of kids still in high school, as are a lot of other celebrities, what message are we giving these kids by cutting slack to various groups of individuals? that its ok to break the law if your a recognized person? Im sorry, but if i commit the same crime as someone so much as even slightly famous, we should recieve the exact same punishment. a crime is a crime.
Now i have nothing against Vick, infact i ran into him a couple of times at frat parties and he was a pretty cool guy, what i want to get accross in this entry is that favorablility for certain groups is not only intollerable, its morally wrong, hell its even against the very bi-laws that founded this great land, ''All men are created equal''. Now I know this kind of prejudice happens all the time, but how is it even close to being ok for VT to add this addendom to their corrective action plan? if you do this sort of thing, don't you normally lie about it, or deny it or something? because in my opinion, you certainly dont publish it! to me, this is just a blatent display of income being more important than morality. you just lost points in my book, VT! but you know what? what ever.
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