Excerpts from student handbook

Hi everyone take out your student handbook and you'll find how stupid some of the rules are. In fact, majority of the rules. If you already lost it, good for you. It's not good to keep junk in your house. But at least RJC bothers to give us handbooks, unlike bloody RI who's darn lazy every year and tells us to go to the website to check rules. Now that's really crap.

So now, let us direct you to the debatable parts of the handbook. Please have a look at the Code of Conduct. Which somehow doesn't make sense because I never heard of conducting codes. Electricity, yea, magnetism, maybe, but codes..? Hell no.

Page 6 controversy
Look carefully at "Absence from Assembly" and "Leaving College during Curriculum Hours". How is it that Assembly starts at 0745 h yet college hours are from 0740 h to 1700 h? What are college hours anyway? That is very poorly defined as "college hours" can mean anything from hours that you should be in the college to hours where it feels very collegy. Rubbish isn't it.

And so what if I leave the college at 7:40am sharp, then come back and turn up for assembly before 7:45am? (Example: If I drop my waterbottle out of the school compounds at 7:40am sharp and I go to pick it up.) Do I still have to get a permission slip signed by my CT, the VP, etc.? Sounds like a hell lot of trouble to me. And not worth it so next time hold on to your bottles when you come in.

Page 7 on Appearance
Attire means the college uniform worn by students. Not my damn hair!!

Check this out too, "belts, if worn, must be uniformly black, white or brown in colour". Uniform to what? Your friends? So if one day you come in a white belt while your friend comes in a black one, prepare to get white slips. By the way, I'm sure people would wear white belts. It just seems wrong.

Page 8 on Hair
"Female students with shoulder length hair or longer must tie it up neatly." Okay sounds acceptable.

"Only green, black, white, dark brown and dark blue hair accessories may be used." What the heck?! That is so biased, man. The handbook obviously favours MR, HH and BB, for they do not care about the lovely house colours of BW (yellow) and MT (red). The rule should seriously be reviewed so female students can now show their allegiance to their respective houses.

Page 9 on Proper Attire
Look carefully at the boy's hair and you tell me if it's hair kept neat. Please, his head looks like a bird's nest! His shirt is also tucked out at the sides. If that's called exemplary then we are all GOD-LIKE!! And those students who really are sticklers about rules will be BEYOND GOD-LIKE!!!!!

Okay enough about Code of Conduct. I'll review the rest another day because we shouldn't focus too much on one area in a day. I'll let you digest the silliness of the first four pages, then the rest we'll settle it later. It's late too, so let me direct you to another stupid rule before I go.

Turn to page 17, still under Code of Conduct but it's more library rules. Refer to rule 13.

"Students should not have their jackets on when leaving the SFL."

Directly quoted. Now may I ask what is the sense in implementing that rule? I feel especially insulted by it as 13 was my register number last year and I don't think I deserve to have my number tainted with such a lame and senseless rule. The stupid idiot who wrote this must really be rather jacked (read: jackt) for not allowing people with jackets to walk out of the SFL. Damn, if I had a jacket I'd try breaking that rule. After all this rule is even more stupid than the certified-unacceptable octet rule.

And you bet, breaking this rule would be much easier than breaking covalent bonds.

Whatever man.. all you have to know is to exercise discretion when you read the rules. Don't be in a hurry to take in everything. The person who made up all this is also human (and a very stupid one at that), so mistakes will be all over the place. I'll be back to continue the review tomorrow.

Meanwhile it's back to Chemistry.