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Скъпо дневниче*, Since this is my first entry, I decided not to go off at the SG like a bull, despite their waving a red. Instead, I will plunge into some not-so-rosy characteristics of our student body. EXPOSITION: Last Wednesday, the Investment Club organized a lecture by Economics Professor Jeffrey Nilsen on the current financial crisis. An admirable event, it was an indication that AUBG is not entirely out of touch with what’s happening in the world. The Investment Club’s timeliness was rewarded by an audience of more than seventy people, half of which took chairs from other rooms, as NB room 204 was not spacious enough. So far so good, but what happened when the presentation was over? Everybody rushed out of the classroom, not a single student returning their chair. So there I stood in the empty space, contemplating a room with about thirty extra chairs, thinking of the other rooms with missing chairs. What’s wrong with that, surely someone is thinking. Several things. RISING ACTION: Not taking our chairs back where they belong, we create work for other people. We prove we are irresponsible, inattentive, perhaps even selfish. We create a potential problem - a possible disruption in the classroom process on Thursday. We have taken something out, and have put it where it does not belong. CLIMAX: We have involved ourselves in an equation, and have left it unbalanced. We have not considered the consequences of our action, or alternatively, lack of action. AUBGers came on Wednesday to learn about the financial crisis. We perhaps learned the causes, but failed to understand and apply our knowledge. Just as faulty laws of finance left an unbalanced equation between government regulations and freer markets and ultimately caused the crisis, AUBGers left behind a much simpler equation - an equation of chairs. FALLING ACTION: Perhaps it could seem a far-fetched, fallacious induction, but such simple behavior can explain many things. What we did is analogical to leaving our dishes on the table in the canteen after eating. The thing is, we do not leave our dishes on the table, but not because we understand why that is wrong. We do it because the canteen staff will get angry, or because we might look poorly in the eyes of others. But on the inside, we are still selfish, and we leave our chairs in room 204 because it is not an as well-established norm not to do so, and we will not get yelled at. The lack of principle we displayed on Wednesday, we might display in our future leader careers – quick profit, and then bail out, to the detriment of others. We might start piling up bales of Sofia trash without a recycling factory, only to find out that we do not have a place to store them later because we were looking for a short-term solution, an immediate profit, leaving behind an unbalanced equation. We might overbuild our seacoast, or allow it to be overbuilt, only to find out that we don’t have any tourism later because we were looking for a immediate profit, leaving an unbalanced equation. And many similar not-so-cheerful doings. RESOLUTION: So what follows? We, the future leaders that will graduate with honors from our university, lack basic virtues. We do not understand the basic principle of being responsible for our actions. Sad. HOMEWORK: Derive pro-environmental arguments from the above text. _____________________________________________________________ *(from Bulgarian) - Dear Diary
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