Ethical uses for classrooms questioned
Angelina Gennis '10
Issue date: 10/29/08 Section: Commentary
According to an email digest students received on October 21, Chris Hoyler '09 will hold an "official" film screening of a Flaming Lips DVD on the 27th in Knapton Lecture. He is doing so to promote Warner Brothers Records, which he labels a "sponser" of the event.
Does anyone else see this as an unethical use of the privileges students are given by the administration to use academic rooms for extracurricular functions? The processes of sending mass emails and of reserving academic rooms are, as of yet, very easy and trustworthy systems in which the school assumes we are using our resources for the benefit of the Wheaton community. Promoting a DVD because you are a representative of an outside company that is souly interested in capitalizing on a target audience within a private institution does not benefit our community, but in fact opens it to unwelcomed marketing, tainting what was once a haven for undiluted learning.
I object to Mr. Hoyler's methods of advertisement; firstly, to his use of the school's mass emailing lists as a billboard, and secondly, to his exploitation of our academic buildings as a marketplace for corporate benefit. As an abuse of our privileges this is in flagrant disregard of the Honor Code, as I interpret it.
Does anyone else see this as an unethical use of the privileges students are given by the administration to use academic rooms for extracurricular functions? The processes of sending mass emails and of reserving academic rooms are, as of yet, very easy and trustworthy systems in which the school assumes we are using our resources for the benefit of the Wheaton community. Promoting a DVD because you are a representative of an outside company that is souly interested in capitalizing on a target audience within a private institution does not benefit our community, but in fact opens it to unwelcomed marketing, tainting what was once a haven for undiluted learning.
I object to Mr. Hoyler's methods of advertisement; firstly, to his use of the school's mass emailing lists as a billboard, and secondly, to his exploitation of our academic buildings as a marketplace for corporate benefit. As an abuse of our privileges this is in flagrant disregard of the Honor Code, as I interpret it.
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