Do you think living in Phoenix Metropolitan is perfect? Hell no…. Don’t you have many complaints about your life? Don’t you feel like to complain?
Why not cry out rather than swallow what worries us Phoenix Metropolitan-dwellers? Why not contribute your frustration with professors, students, administrators, legislators, traffic jam, taxes etc. towards a powerful and pleasurable public complaint?
Students of JUS 394 at ASU invite you to collectively complain!!
Here are few complaints from the class, all students…(ASU professors, don’t you want to complain about your students???)
Lightrail doesn’t run enough, doesn’t go shopping, or to the airport.
ASU needs more parking. It should be free.
Tuition hikes
The whole freeway closes too often…
Lakes have no beach life, and we don’t have an ocean.
It takes forever for professors to email back…
Budget cut on education
The state cares more about prison than education
Yes, whoever you are, whatever you do, and whatever you feel, you’re welcome to complain!!!
The ASU Complaints Choir will consist of singers young and old, experienced or just curious. We will all sing together, so nobody needs to feel exposed. There are no special skills required. Check this blog later for final lyrics and melody, once we’re done in transforming all complaints into the song.
…for the most fun public complaining event in Phoenix Metropolitan….
Come join JUS 394 Cyber Politics COMPLAINT CHOIR
When: APRIL 30TH, 2009
Where: STUDENT SERVICE LAWN of ASU Tempe
Time: 12:15-12:45
… and don’t forget, get your complaints in the lyrics…. post them here in the comment box!!! thanks.
yours,
prof + t.a. + students of JUS394 Cyberpolitics
the chatterbox — students who talk during my lecture
the sleepyhead — students who fall asleep during my lecture
students who walk away, leaving the class 10 minutes before it ends
furlough days
salary cut
tenure requirement!
Even the neighborhoods that aren’t cookie cutter now look the same as they become paved over with nuvo-hipster condos
1) Oh, Phoenix. A city where you must search for culture in row upon row of strip malls, apartment buildings and houses that are differentiated by subtle shades of the same industrial beige color.
2) Downtown Phoenix is DEAD after 8PM…even on a weekend.
3) I hate car-centered cities because:
Bars closing at 2 AM +
Bus or public transport ending at 12AM +
college town
= ridiculous rates of DUI offenses and tent city residents.
4) Undergraduate student papers turned in with http://www.wikipedia.org as the SOLE citation for an academic paper…seriously folks?!
5) The IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) paper. Papers with nothing but opinion and NO evidence of research to support it.
5) Along with the chatterbox & sleepyheads (there are at least 4 spots on campus where caffeine is readily available thanks to our fabulous campus/ business partnerships) I will add two more types:
5a)The amateur DJ: students who continue to wear their iPod headphones in class while I’m talking.
5b) The Compulsive Texters. Do you really think we don’t notice when you’ve got one hand under your desk and there’s a suspicious glow emanating from under your seat, particularly when you sit in the front row?
6) The ever-increasing surveillance state – traffic and red light cameras anyone?
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How about people who ride elevators to go up or down one floor? I know some people need to ride elevators, but there are plenty of people who are just lazy.
How about people who wait at the crosswalk without pushing the button to make the light change?
People who think they have the right of way turning left when I am facing them and turning right (5th and Mill anyone?). A cop did this too me so I cut her off and glared.
Fixed gear bike trendoids.
Razor scooters.
Rollerblading daredevils.
People who don’t wash their hands after they go to the bathroom. Yuk.
Not giving an honorary doctorate to a genuine American hero, President Barak Obama.
Light rail too slow
Buses too cold
Bike lanes in the streets?! That’s scary!
Agree about rollerbladers annd razor scooters, and what about loud motorcyles?
No one has said anything about the summer weather!
The most frustrating technology – Mobile phones! This and Mexico have to be the only countries that pay such a ridiculous fee for cellular phone service. Not to mention all the extra hidden fees you have in any bill statement!
And credit history? why can’t I just pay cash? why do I want to slave myself to credit payments? Insane!
I am tired of all the road construction around the university. It seems like they finish one project, then tear them up again. Leave the Friggin roads alone!
Speaking of roads, I can’t stand it when bicyclists don’t follow the traffic laws. 9 out of 10 times when I see a bicyclist, they are riding the wrong way on the street, running stop signs or red lights, and generally not paying attention to the pedestrians or the other vehicle traffic around them. Just once I would like to see traffic enforcement ticket some of these clowns.
I hate the cost of getting a higher education, too. I am $95,000 in debt and counting. I should not be treated like a cash pinata that the state gets to whack every year. The price of higher education should be freezed at whatever year a student enters the University. Nobody seems to have merit based scholarships or fellowships available anymore. Now were going to get another double digit increase in the cost of education in Arizona? People are going to drop out or not even consider college as an option if this broken system doesn’t get fixed…fast (I know I am).
I don’t like the heat either. I guess I shouldn’t have moved here, huh?
Greetings from Hong Kong!
Our Universities are a bunch of cooperate bureaucratic redundancy.
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Ya know, my personal favorite is the first year undergraduate students at ASU who act like they control the city- and drive like it too. Yet, little do they know, most of what is being taught at ASU and being passed off as “College Level Knowledge” is, alas, taught in many other states on the tenth grade level. I sat in on the ASU Masters in Education with Certification course for a semester and fell asleep at least five times on one occasion because most of what was taught on the Master’s Level is knowledge that I had encountered during my third year of High School.
Another one of my favorites is the fact that, when I chose to attend ASU ( hindsight now reeals this to be a gross error in judgement), submitted 25 documents proving in state residency for the past 3 years are “insufficient documentation” to prove in state residency, but a driver’s license is “more than enough” to decline it (in spite of the fact that it’s an Arizona driver’s license converted one day too early! Where’s the sense in THAT?). I also love their refusal to grant veterans status to me despite the fact that I provided them with my entire service record- A total of 500 pages in length, including 3 deployments, five promotions, numerous enlistee performance reports, etc etc- but because I wasn’t in the Arizona National Guard (I was Active Duty Air Force, stationed in Saudi Arabia for three years), no veterans preference was awarded. I had to request the assistance of both my commanding General and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. And even then, it took ASU 28 weeks to adjust my account.
I LOVE ASU! Especially when the dolts in charge of that pathetic junior-high-school-carbon-copy charge former students for “services rendered” more than five months after they withdraw. I also love it when they refuse to provide documentation proving such debt even exists (like, ya know, dawg, promissory notes, cancelled checks, anything with like, a viable signature and stuff).
I also love it when a letter to the financial aid office, the office of the provost, the office of the college president, a notice of grievance sent to STATE SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN and even to the office of student affairs regarding the matter in question does not cause ANY REACTION AT ALL- but a letter to the Better Business Bureau causes one of the student employees to give me a call and (HA HAAAAAA! Good Lord! ASU workers must be the least intelligent creatures on the planet!) utter into her headset WHILE MY VOICEMAIL IS RECORDING, “I’ll make this sorry sap change his story in a heartbeat-er, hello, this is ***** with ASU, call the office of student affairs. goodbye.”
Now, mind you, I have a BA in Communications from a private Christian College (which charges and gives fifty times more of a high quality education than ASU EVER will) along with a Masters from Yale, so I’m not exactly a “sorry sap”. I evidently have more education and common sense oozing out of my various bodily orifices on an hourly basis than this empty-headed ditz will ever encounter in her entire lifetime.
Trust me, my friends. DO NOT ALLOW THE MORONIC ASU administration to waste your money.
Attend a reputable college- ASU is the intellectual “Goodwill, inc” of education: cheap, filthy and out of date.