Students: We're not all thugs

 In every group someone always lets you down. Your football team are one game away from winning the league and your star player turns up hung-over or you have an important presentation at uni and someone forgets their USB. Whatever the situation is you can be sure something will taint it.

What is the relevance to this I hear you ask? As you all know all students have been rioting and attacking in protest to the university cuts. All students attacked Millbank and charged in and all students attacked the car that Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla were travelling in. Well according to the media anyway.

There were thousands of students in the capital last night protesting before and after the announcement that University caps will be raised to £9,000. Out of all the students there, only 34 arrests were made.

I do not condone that type of behaviour in any shape or form, in fact I think those minority of idiots are giving all of the hard working, sensible and passionate students a bad name. And it doesn’t help that the news in this country likes to concentrate on the negative things.

I’ve always been a strong believer that the media has the power to change the way the country thinks. When they portray students as being violent and horrible the public will start to think that is what they all are. A person I know changed his status on Facebook to: “The students are going wild, get jobs u lazy f**ks.” To which I replied: “I’m a student and I have a job. We aren’t all the same as the idiots that cause trouble; I’m in uni to get a good job.”

 

People seem to forget that not all students are the same. They are one of the vastest group of people. There are people who were born in England, and then there are people from France, China and all over the world. There are people studying academic subjects, people studying arts and new media and people studying other things such as law and psychology.

 

The media isn’t going to change their ways so we just have to remind ourselves and those around us that we aren’t all the same. You may never want to let down your football team on an important match, you may never forget your USB on an important day and you may not want to violently attack people at a protest.