(由 Google 翻译)如果你所做的事情是真诚的,就会表现出来。如果你所做的事情是正直的,它也会表现出来。我想在我要说的话之前说一下,我们学校是一所文科大学,也是一所圣十字大学。如果您是一位喜欢学习并重视原创思想的学生,那么圣爱德华学院是您的正确选择。在去年的迎新活动中,学校校长、教师和工作人员承诺我们作为学生将得到支持。他们希望我们成功。
这里有很多学习方式,并且得到了支持。然而,当学校说我必须为我永远不会使用的膳食计划支付 2060 美元时,我提出了问题。学校表示无能为力,因为此事由学校身份证办公室负责。尽管我提到我自己做饭,不吃肉,也不在校园里吃饭,但他们坚持要我支付该膳食计划的费用。我为此祈祷,并与我的牧师交谈。
你看,iD 卡办公室给人的印象是,他们没有看到超越他们所拥有的观点。这就是这个观点,没有其他观点。坚定、不可动摇、短视的观点。像我这样的学生,在学校做预算,做两到三份工作,利用良好的批判性思维和智慧按时毕业。他们甚至连这一点都看不到。我想起我在国内外的亲戚,他们每天甚至不花 1 美元买食物。我知道我一学期的伙食费不会花 2060 美元。我一直都是自己做饭。我是一个非常安静的学生,他会坐下来学习,但他们因为我独立思考而欺负我。我对我的教育以及将帮助我帮助自己和我的亲戚的教育的重视程度超过了这个膳食计划的费用。作为我们学校的一名高年级学生,我有责任说出真相,希望学校能够认真对待这些意见。我看到你们支持我们的教育工作,但那些不支持的人呢?
他们,少数人,并没有试图摆脱自去年以来对我们经济产生影响的错误信息和种族主义文化,而是仍然坚持这种观点。我们学校里有少数人甚至拒绝了解圣十字的含义,他们正在以影响学生的方式施加压力和他们的观点。他们在身份证办公室、安全办公室和维护办公室,有时给我这样的印象。你在这里,但你并不真正理解耶稣基督在十字架上所做的事情。参加一到两次教堂礼拜或弥撒,坐下来与神父、牧师甚至我们学校的一些工作人员交谈,以充分理解圣十字的含义。你知道,正是这所学校的某些特质吸引了学生来到这里。
这就是我的斥责方式。这里有少数人欺负像我这样的学生,因为他们是种族主义和错误信息文化的一部分。在他们眼里,世界很小,但世界却更大。别再假装了,收起你的种族主义和偏见,因为吸引像我这样的学生在这里学习了几年的价值观,这些价值观将超越任何种族主义。
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If there is sincerity in what you are doing it will show. If there is integrity in what you are doing it will also show. I want to preface what I will say by saying that our school is a liberal arts university and a Holy Cross university. If you are a student who likes to study and values original thought, then St. Edward's was the proper place for you. During our orientation last year it was promised that we would be supported as students by our school President, Faculty, and staff. They wanted us to succeed.
There are very many ways to study here and the had supported this. However, when the school said that I would have to pay $2060 for a meal plan that I would never use, I asked questions. The school said that there was nothing that they could do, because it was the school iD card office who attends to this matter. Even though I mentioned that I cook my own food, don't eat meat, or eat on campus, they insisted that I pay for that meal plan. I prayed about it, and talked with my Pastor.
You see, the impression that the iD card office gave is that they do not see beyond this view they have. It is this view and no other. The staunch, immovable, myopic type of view. Students like me who are budgeting and working through school with two to three jobs, using good critical thinking, wisdom to graduate on time. They can't see even that. I think about my relatives, here and abroad who don't even spend $1 on food a day. I know that I don't spend $2060 on meals in one semester. I have always cooked my own food. I am a very quiet student, who will sit down and study, but they picked on me because I think for myself. The value I place on my education, and education that will help me help myself, and my relatives, is more than this meal plan cost. As an upperclassmen in our school, I have a responsibility to tell the truth in hope that the school will take these views seriously. I see you supporting our educational efforts but what about the ones who don't?
Instead to trying to veer away from the culture of misinformation and racism that economically affected us since last year, they, the few, still hold to that view. The few people in our school who refuse to even see what Holy Cross means are applying pressure and their views in ways that affects students. They are in the iD card office, the safety office, and maintenance and have given me that impression at times. You are here but you don't really understand what Jesus Christ did on the cross. Attend one maybe two church services or mass, sit down and talk with the Priest, or the Pastor or even some of the staff at our school to fully understand what Holy Cross means. You know it is that there is something about the school that made students come here.
This is my way of rebuking. The few people who are here that picked on students like me did so because they are part of racism and misinformation culture. The world is tiny in their eyes, but no it is a much bigger place. Stop pretending and put away your racism and prejudice, because the values that drew students like me to study here for the fews years we are here, THOSE VALUES WILL ENDURE BEYOND ANY RACISM.