Hello again readers; I’m sorry that it has been a while since my last post-you have to understand, my life is practicing medicine and napping when I can. Not much in between. As for this post, I have found myself with a short block while riding back home on the afternoon train because my car pool had an appointment after work today.
Anyhow, I was brushing up on the current events section in my local news section and I saw there’s some type of scandal going down at Ryerson (for those of you who don’t know, Ryerson is a University located in Toronto). My understanding of the whole situation is that the student government of the school kind of blew the trust of the school by mishandling some money resulting in the school basically breaking ties with the student government.
Essentially the student government broke the trust of the school by allowing a credit card for the association to blow up a bill of 250k which came from funds payed by students.
So this led to the school calling it quits with the organization and taking back control of it for the time being. They did however offer the possibility making an agreement to work together with another newly created student government if the student just so wished to create a new one.
I believe there is a great amount wrong with the ethics of kids and young adults these days. They believe it is okay to steal because they see it glorified online like it is normal and such. There is no accountability for the actions that young people take nowadays. These students got to rack up a 250 thousand dollar credit bill, but not a single mention of disciplinary action? That seems a little absurd to me.
It seems as though people are just allowed to do whatever they want and MAYBE get a slap on the wrist. Then theres professions like the one I am pursuing in which one accident or mistake can be your career down the toilet.
No matter the case, it is still interesting to see the reaction of the school to say they would allow for another student government to be formed in the future, instead of just keeping the control of the situation to themselves because the students had basically broken the trust they had. In most situations that would be the case–i.e if one person on a team breaks a rule everyone gets punished. But I guess there is more leniency than the normal standard response.
Times have changed is the appropriate response I’m guessing. I try to allow my mind to be as open to change and possibilities as I can, but some things like this just don’t seem logical. Maybe I am overreacting and it really isn’t that big of a change.
Well I should get going my train is going to be pulling into the station soon and I should collect myself so I can get off quickly and get home.
I hope you all enjoyed a bit of my mind being put down on the screen for you all to read.
Until next time..
William Martin. 