You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Live Free!

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Choosing the best living environment is an integral part of students' academic success and financial stability throughout college. Where one lives often dictates the people with whom he or she associates, extracurricular activities, time spent on school work, and consequently one’s GPA in school. Any decision made in regards to housing can be seen as containing both positive and negative factors; however, after diligent research and studying the facts, even just the idea of requiring anyone to live on-campus is absolutely absurd. While living on campus certainly has several aspects that could be looked upon favorably by some such as having a close proximity to various locations on campus, being forced to live in on-campus housing by a first-year live-on requirement stifles a student’s ability to study and learn and replaces it with social obligations to go out and hang out with their roommates and friends. Fortunately, there’s a solution to this growing problem. By being permitted to live off-campus students are provided the ability to live their own lives and to grow as individuals, all the while learning important lessons pertaining to life in college, academically and socially, as well as life after college. Therefore, on this note, I move to abolish the first-year live-on requirement set forth by Georgia Southern University.
Before jumping into the advantages of dropping this costly and ineffective requirement, it is important to look at why people would be opposed to the abolition. First, many would argue and say that living off-campus during freshman year of college is irresponsible in that the young men and women affected by the decision are too immature to be able to handle the responsibilities and the freedom that come a...

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