Video Games, War Heroes, and Smoking -- Oh My!

By Jocelyn Geboy in News on May 16, 2006 5:30PM

In another stunning display of his leadership skills, the Rod signed another bill to ensure the welfare and safety of our children yesterday. Well, our college-age children. When he's not keeping them safe from wacked out video games and making sure we all don't fall victim to fake war heroes, he's going to make sure they're not getting the cancer, either.

It seems that the Illinois legislature is cranking out the bills lately, and the latest is aimed at colleges in the state. It is now illegal to smoke inside any college dormitory, private or publicly owned. This bill also affects sororities and fraternities if they are owned by the college. We were hoping they were going to get on something more important, but hey. Why start big?

Again, we're nonplussed. We can see the reasoning for not wanting there to be smoking in dorms. Fire hazards, general well-being of students, overall cleanliness issues. But isn't this something colleges themselves can regulate? Shouldn't every college administration and the board of trustees be able to handle this quite nicely on their own?

Chicagoist thinks if they're going to start making laws about what goes on inside of dormitories, they should regulate your roommate coming home in the middle of the night all wasted with some guy who told her he was a war hero and asking you to spend the night somewhere else. That seems more useful. All in all, this just gets a big WTF? from us.

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