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Show Page 4 's ? .'V ' ', , ',' yy ' , ' Zs'f" 'tyt yyy' '''"S' '"" y' " '"yy yy' '"y The Dixie Sun 'sj y'yy''' yyyy'y yyyyy y, yyyyyy 'y'yy'yyyyy ''' Opinion By John Wadlfy Opinion Cditor Lets visit the guidance office, shall we. As we make our way towards the skeleton cafeteria, we enter what has been affectionately entitled The inescapable vortex of collegiate torture. Within this crevice, there is contained the most confusing, paper chasing Dont try to organizations on campus. squeeze into the guidance office, watch for paper cuts and fits of redundancy emanating from the financial aid office, relieve frustration by ramming your forehead into the plate glass windows of the Cashiers cubby hole, and dont let the metal security fence hit your head at the regis- trars office. In a place filled with so many perils, why on the spinning earth g 'y"y 's ' y'yyyyy t Opinion y y January y. yy'fy,y'ys. pv' yyy J 20, lr i F Editor: John Wadley icy is when an appointment is made, you dont leave the office at ten minutes after 11 a m , in front of the scheduled appointment. That just isnt a chapter in How to win friends and influence people. At what point did we lose the focus of counseling? Do we no longer cater to those with problems? I know that we have separate divisions of counselors. We have a graduation counselor, but I havent actually spoken to her yet. I was scheduled to speak to another counselor about that very same topic, but he doesnt cover that area. Needless to say, I got rescheduled. The appointment was set for January 23, 2045. That will make me about 68 yrars old. would hope Ive PD I that finished by everything then, but since cant A I k graduate without speaking to a counselor, I may still be found here writing abusive, rude, and comunfounded ments. At least Fll be able to see how many ditches the would we go there? I need guidance. I need therapy, and maybe some insight into my scholastic future. I need to make an two maintenance appointment decades in advance. department digs in the next 47 Lets face it, our counseling faciliyears. I digress. The ty is either overor is a there worked, overwhelming point here is this. conspiracy to alleviWe need more ate sanity in the We counselors that praccounselors. tice need more readily therein. Or accessible maybe its none of help the above. Maybe with scholasticaltheir sole goal is to ly related dilemfill as many spaces For many students, this is as close as they will come mas. We all dont to seeing a counselor. The Guidance office is have enough time on their daily calendar as they can with always busy with students seking assistance. to stand in a names. If any of you small office, with happen to notice the name Hakeem Jordan, far too few chairs! or Elvis Lennon, or perhaps even, Marilyn The counseling office is underit is probably a safe staffed, crowded, and seemingly ineffective. If Dixie College is truly to be an academic assumption that these are not real appointments, but simply time for the counselors to climate, the support needs to be there. do the things for themselves. I hear rolling There needs to be an outlet for the confudown that grass hill next to their office is a sion that often arises when students scurry common distraction. about trying desperately to plan the rest of At some point, there has to be some their lives. kind of rational behind the way the office is For those students who fit into this organized. This is just my opinion, but category, or any other category that would there has to be a better way to run an office. necessitate a visit to the guidance office, Ill If you have an appointment at 11 be raffling off the fake appointments Ive a.m it is usually good policy to be in the made to provide a service, save time, and to office at 11 a m. in order to attend to the save enough money to pay for the therapy that I really need appointments of the day An even better pol Monroe-Goldber- y Pi lar C DlSRTYUNPJS hi least popular ATTRACTIONS. 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