Dear Editor,
I read with both amusement and a touch of sadness about the forthcoming destruction of Frank Clement Hall.
One of my brothers and I lived there as well as in some other ETSU dorms during the early 1970s. Actually, I am surprised that the residence halls are still standing given all that has goneon in them over the years.
While I now look back on my ETSU dormitory experiences with some amusement, back then, it really wasn’t funny. The men’sdorms were not very comfortable and it was nearly impossible to sleep due to loud neighbors.
I hope that the university will both encourage as well as require students to be better behaved in the dormitories in the future.
I also hope that future dormitories will be much better built and far more comfortable than the old ones.
While there is a temptation for college students to “raise hell,” students now and in the future would be well advised to focus on learning and getting good grades as well as to learn behavioral skills which will help them in the corporate and public service worlds as well as in the communities where they will live (where neighbors and the police take a very negative view of noisy hell-raisers).
Nobody will care if you had little fun in college, but they will care, in a very negative way, if you got low grades and don’t know how to behave yourself properly.
Yeah, now it can be amusing to remember what went on in the old days, in ETSU dorms, however, I hope that the end of the old dorms will mark the beginning of a new and better era for students at ETSU.
E. Marshall Buckles

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