Lake Sumter State College is a school that upholds
professionalism, along with friendly staff members that treats the student body
with respect and understanding. However, in the past semester, the faculty and
students have begun to wonder if the school is getting too professional. The
administration staff is beginning to make strict rules regarding student
activities and the college as a whole. One of the new rules involves pizza
delivery vehicles to show their car insurance when they deliver pizzas for student
events.
South Lake’s SGA officer Norah Emily stated, “My take on
this whole situation, I think that administration is trying to look out for us,
however I believe they are being a bit excessive with their decisions and final
calls on things. It feels as though they are making decisions based on a fantasy
world where we (SGA and the student body) have gotten hurt in the past; when
our Reality World, none of us have gotten hurt and the majority of us are all
safe adult students who know how to take care of ourselves and can hang out at
event s and not get hurt. Administration is, in a sense, being overprotective
parents and trying to make us live in a bubble wrap world. Instead of taking
everything away like we did something bad; why don’t they just negotiate with
us and come up with a compromise that we can both agree on?”