Marla Jo Fisher of the OC Register reports (2 more O.C. colleges ban smoking) that Santa Ana College and Santiago Canyon College (in Orange) have now joined two other OC community colleges—namely, Fullerton and Golden West—in banning smoking on campus, except for parking lots.
Santa Ana College has gone further, banning the use of any tobacco products. The school has adopted the designation “Tobacco-free campus.”
Marla notes that, when, some time ago, Fullerton College banned smoking and eliminated ashtrays, trash-can fires started breaking out all over campus like pimples on a teen-aged face.
At the February meeting of the SOCCCD board of trustees, a student addressed the board, urging support for making Saddleback College “Tobacco-free.”
Trustees stared at the kid like carps.
No doubt efforts to drag our colleges into the Twenty-First Century will continue, inspiring Trustee Tom Fuentes (at some future point) to intone that Socialism and Humanism, among other dark things, continue to menace "our Land," tempting our "good" young people into lives of gayness, vegetarianism, and unfettered teetotalitarianism.
Amen.
See also
• Abortion protestors today at Santiago Canyon College
• Chancellor Mathur blames his loutishness on hormones
