For the 12th time in 40 years, Ohio State students were granted a day off from in-person classes due to winter storm Blair. Campus was dotted with snowmen, snow angels, super epic snowball fights, and became witness to a dumpster stuck in frozen Mirror Lake. But with roads still in need of clearing and cold temperatures expected well into next week, some students feel as though we should’ve had one more day tacked onto winter break.
“I think that if we have to go back to class [Tuesday], it should be considered an impeachable offense,” said Rosalind Thorne, communications major and president of the recently formed “Coalition of Students for More Snow Days”. On Monday, the organization pressed university admins for an extra snow day.
“President Carter needs to be overthrown like Marie Antoinette if we don’t get it. VIVA LA REVOLUTION!” Ms. Thorne also went on record admitting that her car, capable of remote start, lives on campus with her at her apartment, which is conveniently located no more than a two-minute drive from any of her classes.
Other students feel as though a snow day was never needed in the first place. Graduate student Jun-Seo Kang, born and raised in famously snowy Buffalo, NY, thinks everyone is seriously overreacting.
“Y’all are being wusses, this is literally just a flurry. I thought this school was better than this.” Kang also told us how he walked to class uphill both ways in two feet of snow every day during grade school, even braving an additional foot of snow during his treks to class at SUNY Buffalo, where he completed his undergraduate degree.
When asked about his stance on this pressing issue, university president Ted Carter stands by the administration’s choice to leave students with only one snow day, writing in an email Monday evening that got buried in everyone’s inboxes:
“You are all adults and here to learn, suck it up and go to class.”
Written by Rachel Weinstein