2008 Woodie Awards
Smoking on campus
ByIssue date: 12/7/07 Section: Art
Originally published: 12/7/07 at 12:12 PM CSTLast update: 12/10/07 at 4:28 PM CST
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Smoking on campus
Fall 1937
The Junior Ranger is asked by the administration to stop running cigarette ads. In exchange, the paper received funds raised by a $2 blanket fee. The fee revenue is only half of that generated by cigarette ads.
Spring 1947
Women are allowed to smoke on campus. Dean of Women Matilda G. Fuller is quoted in The Ranger: "I believe that girls should be allowed to smoke when and wherever they wish."
March 18, 1955
Cigarette ads reappear in The Ranger.
December 1961
Lit cigarettes thrown on the floor of the chemistry-geology building burn through the floor sealant.
Jan. 2, 1970
Congress bans smoking ads on TV.
Sept. 1, 1976
A ban on smoking in public places goes into effect. Certain faculty members are said to have used physical force in attempting to enforce the ban on campus.
Aug. 27, 1990
The college institutes a new nonsmoking policy. Dr. Jim Dye, chairman of the Committee for a Smoke-Free Campus, states that smoking is prohibited in any indoor space or within 10 feet of any building entrance.
Spring 2004
College Academic Council approves an incremental ban that will be effective in two years.
Spring 2004
Smoking is restricted to 11 designated areas on campus.
Fall 2005
Smoking is restricted to campus parking lots.
Fall 2007
Campus becomes smoke-free (except if you are sitting in your car).
Note: Information from this chronology was provided by English Professor Jerry McCarthy and compiled from The Ranger archives.
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Sally Brown
posted 12/08/07 @ 10:02 AM CST
Allowing smoking only in cars is self-defeating (even though it might make the PC brigade feel better about themselves). By enforcing this craziness, the smoker is passively smoking their own cigarette in addition to smoke inhaled (which is filtered). (Continued…)
Erik
posted 12/10/07 @ 10:57 AM CST
I for one hate having to hold my breath as I walk through a plum of smoke just to enter a building. You are already causing damage to your body by smoking, why not do everyone a favor and smoke in your own confines. (Continued…)
shaina
posted 1/25/08 @ 10:19 AM CST
dear the ranger,
i am doing a school assignment and i want to let you know that there should be smoking on school campus. its a free country so why cant we??
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