I have found one way to describe the up and coming generation.
The religion building is currently under complete gutting and renovation, so we're camping out in what used to be the old College Wesleyan Church. We've also discovered why it is the old CWC--it has many quirks to it.
[The dainty should stop reading at this point.]
Anyway, I've been puzzled by the fact that I am consistently finding unflushed toilets in the men's bathroom. Admittedly, the toilet in question doesn't flush very well (thus the old CWC). You have to have a sense of duty and persistence with it, but it is possible if you're willing to give up an extra 10 seconds of living.
Someone remarked yesterday at the sink something about people being so used to self-flushing toilets that they didn't stick around to realize you actually have to manually flush these things. Doing philosophy as a hobby, this was an interesting thought. Coming generations will, as a part of their toilet paradigms, not even think that you might in some cases have to flush a toilet manually.
Frankly, I think the guilty party probably just doesn't stick with it. But it seems like a fair description of what professors are observing. The new college students are used to being waited on hand and foot. They email professors to look things up in syllabi for them and to email them the answers to study guides. One colleague of mine suggested they look at professors as "personal trainers," not even as group coaches but as one on one trainers.
Of course my parents' generation probably said similar things about my generation. Maybe they would have called us the "calculator" generation.
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"Flushing, Lord for others..
Let this my motto be."
this is getting emailed to everyone on staff with me...you may have touched the heart of some of the reasons that more and more churches are wanting to install the draft for getting volunteers.
You may be missing something. Students are becoming more eco conscience and are looking for was to save little pieces of the environment as such they are trying to save a gallon of water at a time.
Don't forget the old Rhyme "if it's yellow let it mellow if it's brown flush it down."
The first time I used a cereamic toilet in Honduras, I was given a bucket of water to flush it. I was dumbstruck. After visiting Shane Claiborne and the other locos at The Simple Way, I figured it out (http://www.thesimpleway.org/
practical/water.html).
Kurt -
Becky and I try to follow the ol' rhyme. Of course once you put this into practice as a couple (or as living with someone) you quickly come up with some qualifiers based on... well, lots of things. Sometimes it is more pleasant to save water in other ways...
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