NO GAMING
Games (Chess, Checkers,
Cards, Dice, Dominoes,
etc.) are not allowed
within the Cafeteria or
Campus Boundaries.
Anyone violating this
regulation may be subject
to removal and
prosecution and the game
may be confiscated.
Look familiar? This sign is posted at the north and south entrances into BC’s cafeteria. I can understand prohibiting dice and cards, as they are usually associated with gambling-I don’t agree, but I understand. Chess? Checkers? Seriously! I’m tempted to start a chess club on campus just so I can receive a formal letter from BC security and administration telling me it is prohibited to play the game on campus. Does BC’s administration realize how ridiculous that is? I often see improvements on campus that attempt to pull us away from the ‘high school with ashtrays’ feel, and make BC seem more like a real college. We allow smoking but no checkers. Second-hand smoke has been shown to cause cancer! I think I’d rather suffer the evils of checkers than the thousands of carcinogens in cigarette smoke. How many other colleges and universities ban checkers and chess? Our own AmeriCorps program teaches chess to first and second graders, but we’re not allowed to play such a horrific game at BC. Students elsewhere in California think that this policy is pretty funny. BC is becoming a very impressive institute of higher education, but this silly policy really makes it hard to take this institution seriously.
Marc L Miller
BC Student
545-45-5673