OUR VIEW: Too much noise can be a bad thing

Everyone knows a party just isn’t complete without some rockin’ music. The energy it creates and entertainment it provides is almost a necessity to having a good time. It’s no wonder students want to blast tunes at full volume when hosting events.

But caution should be exercised. Too much of a good thing really is too much of a good thing.

The events hosted by student groups on the TSC patio and the Quad are some of the regular occurrences that shake things up here at USU and keep students awake and involved between classes and destination points on campus. Usually these events are fundraisers for a good cause or ways to spread information about a student service. And almost always, there is food and music involved. These events should continue, but organizers and djs for these events should be sensitive to both the volume of the music as well as the lyrics of the music being played.

Most of us have been in a class, enjoying, or at least tolerating, a lecture, only to have it interrupted by a strong bass beat or the vibrations of a guitar. Some interruptions only last for a couple of hours, but events like Day on the Quad last all day, interrupting several classes. In the late summer and spring, when shutting the window for comfort reasons is just not an option, some professors near the Quad and the TSC Patio are left shouting, or even giving up altogether.

As frustrating as having a class interrupted can be, almost worse is having ears barraged by inappropriate or raunchy lyrics students have no way to escape except by fleeing to the far ends of campus. It happened yesterday and it’s happend before – we just hope it doesn’t happen again.

By no means do we hope to discourage or offend organizers of these types of events … long live the music. But we do hope that those in charge of the music, djs and visiting radio stations alike, will be sensitive to both the amount of decibals and language choice of their tunes.