I wonder if there's a college rule about bringing your board inside? It didn't say anything in the story.
Personally, I'd be really hesitant to leave a nice longboard propped up outside while I was in the dining hall for 20 or 30 minutes eating. Sounds like a great to end up walking and cussing while wondering who lifted the board.
__________________ “I thought you were going to kill yourself?”
“I did. Went home, turned on my mom’s car in the garage.”
“What happened? You’re still here.”
“Freakin’ hybrids, man. They just don’t get the job done.”
LOL! I live a few blocks from campus. I skate there ALL THE TIME. In fact, I was just there last night. This is the one campus I see someone on a skateboard every 10 minutes easily. A lot of the kids seem to have Carvesticks or I just keep seeing the same one.
__________________ Go out, skate, and enjoy the ride.
The question I have is what side of the longboard do the bearings break in faster? I recently bought some Sin System bearings for my Evo and I want to try and break them in evenly.
Hahah my sister goes there and I built her a board that she uses to get to class. I was hoping to see it in the article (ver recognizable, no many peole have completely baby blue minis) but no dice. I'll have to mention this to her- she better not get that board stolen.
Wow, trusting peeps out there at Mudd. I almost went there, actually.
If everywhere was this honest it'd be great, but I kinda like having my board with me.
And I didn't know the campus was done by Edward Durell Stone. Interesting!
Harvey Mudd was my dream school, I thought they'd have more of a problem with unicycle parking???
Speaking of which, I occasionally run into 1 but the other day there was a pack of about 8. I was looking around for the circus tents but no dice.
BTW, I tend to see a lot of kids bring their boards in the buildings with them rather then leave them outside but then again, I'm only there between dusk and dawn.
__________________ Go out, skate, and enjoy the ride.
Stumbled on this this afternoon, taken from the College's website (Student Life). I guess that explains quite a bit?
Quote:
It’s not kid stuff.
We expect great things from our students, and that includes trusting them to behave with maturity and integrity. Our trust is so strong that we’ve put issues of academic and social integrity in the hands of our students. It’s the Honor Code, and it’s an important part of the HMC experience.
On a side note, I know someone that took a class here this past semester. Take home midterm and final. To bad I never had that when I was going to school.
HMC’s Honor Code is a matter of trust and team play. It is not a class in ethics or a set of rules dictated by the faculty. It's a way of life, created and governed by students—respected by everyone. The Honor Code is based on the simple premise that, given the chance, people will do the right thing.
The Official Standard of Conduct
The Honor Code states that students are expected to act as responsible individuals, to conduct themselves with honesty and integrity both personally and academically, and to respect the rights of others. The college considers these standards to be essential to its academic mission and its community life.
What the Honor Code Means for Our Students
The Honor Code means closed-book exams in your dorm room. It means that during lunch at Platt Campus Center you'll see unattended bikes, skateboards, unicycles, book bags containing laptop computers and other personal possessions. It means having an expensive calculator returned to you after you left it behind in the lab. And it also means 24-hour student access—via card swipes—to state-of-the-art computers, labs, studios and shops.
Why the Honor Code Works
Students come to Mudd because they're serious about getting a great education. When you come to campus, you'll find an atmosphere that encourages honesty and cooperation. Students are immersed in an environment that reduces grade competition, in which freshmen experience their first semester at Mudd with a "High Pass/Pass/No Pass" grade system. Each Mudder has made a decision to join a community whose members act with honesty and integrity.
Society might have something to learn here.
__________________ Go out, skate, and enjoy the ride.
well, they are rich kids at a private school.
loosing a skateboard is like loosing $20 to you or me.
I was on stanford campus, same thing, people leave their bikes unlock everywhere.
This is contrasted to a campus like Harvard or MIT or Brown. They're rich kids at private schools.... But everything is locked to hell because it's Boston or Providence even. If every school had a paradisal campus and amount of solitude it wouldn't be hard for more (small) schools to go by this I think.
The school size does help, too.
But also just because they're rich doesn't mean that their things aren't valued and that their ability to leave things lying around isn't somewhat reliant on all the students being good to each other.
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