“Moooo!”No, it’s not the sound of cattle being herded along the farm road; it’s the sound of smokers being herded into any one of the nine tiny boxes where we are now allowed to smoke on campus.All we need now are faculty members standing around us with electric cattle prods to make sure we stay within the lines.Ostensibly, the reason why the administration is doing this is because of all the inconsiderate smokers who walk through the halls smoking in front of classrooms and not respecting other people-but nine spots to smoke in more than 400 acres of campus is an unrealistic goal that only dooms the restrictions to failure.We need more than nine small pens on campus to smoke.They need to add at least four to five more areas. Come on; let’s move some of the existing areas out of hiding, such as the spot behind the 1900 building. Who’s going back there to smoke?As of now, I have to walk all the way around to the front of the swimming pool from the Pierce College Village to smoke.Normally I play by the rules, but when it comes to this subject, I am less than compliant.I admit that the furthest I am willing to walk is 30 feet away from any building to smoke. When I actually walk to a designated smoking area, most of the time there are non-smokers sitting in the clearly marked smoking area at the tables.Then they give me the evil eye because I’m smoking near them.If I have to conform to these rules and smoke in a designated area, non-smokers need to respect this and deal with the smoke or stay out of the smoking area.So listen up, smokers! We need to clean up our act, or the next step will be a campus-wide ban on smoking.
