For
With their obnoxious, egotistical personalities and reckless driving (although hardly worse than the South Carolina residents), New Jersey students are overpopulating Clemson and taking away its “southern charm.” That is why it is time for Clemson admissions to ban New Jersey residents from continuing their plague across campus.
Students from the Garden State already make up over half of the out-of-state students on campus; they feel the need to migrate south because their state lacks the one-of-a-kind warmth that Clemson offers to all of its students. In the future, if New Jersey students continue to get accepted, Clemson’s countrywide reputation will be ruined because of their behavior, so it is imperative that these students should not be accepted this upcoming year.
“I am honestly so tired of hearing that people are from New Jersey. Every other person I meet says they are from that cursed state, and I am completely in support of Clemson banning their admission. We need more state representation from, quite frankly, anywhere else in this country, so it is the right move on their part,” said Phillip Buster, a junior political science major from Spartanburg, South Carolina. “If they keep coming to Clemson, they are just going to keep taking over the south like the cockroaches that come out every summer.”
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Most students, whether in-state or out-of-state, look at New Jersey students as pests that are taking over campus, but why does that give Clemson admissions the right to ban them from coming in? Whether Clemson likes it or not, without New Jersey students, then the population might as well be cut nearly in half.
With 64.7% of the out-of-state student population being from New Jersey, where is Clemson going to get the funding for the next football season without each student’s roughly $50,000 tuition fee per year? That is exactly why Clemson needs to keep accepting Garden State students, because their contribution to funding and ~cultural differences~ help make Clemson a more well-rounded place, even if the proportions of students are off.
“I am really against banning New Jersey students because they are necessary to keep this school running, how can we function without them? With our old, asbestos-filled buildings and lack of funding for everything except football, we can’t afford that situation to get any worse,” said Carson Elliot, a senior accounting major from Richmond, Virginia. “Bring on the New Jersey students, since they are willing to pay to come here, even if they come in huge amounts.”