When deciding to come to Dixie State College many people tell you that it is a party school. This image of being a party school needs to be changed. Yes I do agree that there are some parties that take place at Dixie but at what college doesn’t have parties? If you go to any college in the United States I am sure that on a Friday or Saturday night you could find a party that has alcohol and weed there. Now why does Dixie get this huge reputation for it? I believe it is because schooling is so cheap that kids that can’t afford tuition at bigger schools come here and some of those kids have done illegal things in high school and that carries over to college and gives Dixie the party reputation that it has. Before I left to come down here everyone was making assumptions about drinking and doing drugs which is totally not me but because of the reputation that the school has everyone just assumed that I was going to do those things. Now if I had said I was going to BYU or Utah not a single person would have said anything about drinking or doing drugs even though those things do happen there. My Mom worked at the U for some time and had been invited to a football game with a coworker and she said that on their walk to the stadium passing Frat houses and tailgate parties there was alcohol everywhere. Now if you said something about that to someone they would not believe it as easily as if they said that it occurred at Dixie because we have that party school reputation. This is why we need to change the image of Dixie and make it so that everyone doesn’t think that it is just a school for the partiers but it is a school just like any other school. Of course there will be the assumption of parties but at what school is there not that right?
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