Never Play Music Again

A few school days ago, Man About College was notified about the case of a young man being wrongfully accused. Apparently, this was that certain member of authority's; let's call the individual "B", way of dealing with the problem of too much noise in a certain area.

Bright and early in the school morning, the lower six students were as usual assembled in their area of "idle talk". And even begin to think about going to the library until nine o'clock (such an excellent opening hour especially considering first period starts at 8:30) sometime even later; we all know how 'generous' Vincentian time can be.

Loud music was playing, also the norm now as us young people are living in an age where information, including music can fit in your pocket or on your phone, a stark contrast to the "phone booths" that you got a workout carrying around, and that only our parents could afford. B decided to pick this morning to have a sudden outburst of rebellion against the tech-aided noise and angrily demanded the reverent crowd of students.

Who was playing that music?

A scene reminiscent of Father Bear asking who ate his porridge, only with a little less despair and a little more Shrek. The accused said truthfully. I'm not sure, some one over on that side. Fath...., "B" went inside, without a word. Not long after, the young man who had spoken up with honest was ordered to get inside the office. After vain attempts to justify that he was not playing the music, B, seeing no need to be politely to "lowly students", ejected the boy from the office, like an old fashioned CD-ROM drive refusing to read a DVD.

The boy later lamented that this would be a mark on his transcript, prosecuted for speaking up and telling the truth. Man About College is skeptical about whether this was an effective way to deal with the music issue in the school, especially since the real perpetrator walked away unscathed

by the way have you been reading College Rocks Fashion?

~ Man About College