LETTER: Maybe students don’t want lecture hour

To the editor:

    Like many students here at Utah State, I work part time in order to stay in school.  My busy schedule depends on my ability to smash classes into as few weekdays as possible so I can keep my job.  This is a difficult feat as it is and now we’re losing some of the best class time of the day to a common hour for guest lecturers that will likely go un-utilized by the vast majority. 

    I don’t know about you, but when I get out of my morning lecture classes, the last thing I want to do is go listen to another lecture.  This is a complete waste of a valuable scheduling block and is a shining vision of a university detached from the mind-set of its student body. 

    Maybe this is rude of me but perhaps the reasoning behind the poor attendance for guest lecturers currently is that not that many people care.  I spend a great deal of time on campus and never have I been walking to class and heard the words “man, that lecture at lunch yesterday on deficit spending was KILLER!”

 Our lives as college students     are extremely stressful so why not schedule an event that lets us blow off some steam and relax?  The Red Jump Suit Apparatus concert last fall was amazing and the turnout was huge.  If the university is looking for increased student presence at events then that’s the type of thing they should be spending our money on, not lectures in the middle of the day that adversely affect our scheduling.

Jared Ballard