Hi, my name is Anthony Glick, I am a student at Ohio University. Or can't you tell that by the wristband that I am wearing? I am sure by the time The Post posts this that everyone is going to be tired of reading about the "wristband policy."

I apologize, I just have to get this off my chest. When I told my friend, who is planning on visiting me for Halloween, that WE had to wear wristbands he couldn't hold in his laughter. I don't blame him, neither can I. A wristband? Are you kidding me? I have a better idea, lets all get tattoos on our foreheads with all of our vital information on it.

When I first heard about this, I gave it a chance, a short one, but a chance nonetheless. I can maybe understand making visitors wear some kind of identification, maybe. But students wearing a wristband is ludicrous.

We pay a good amount of money to live in these dorms (well, our parents do for the most part). We pay to sleep in the beds, have a roof over our heads, to use the bathroom (sometimes more for throwing up than what it should be used for), to have a place to study, and a place to create some wonderful memories of chairs flying out of third story windows. So why do we have to pay for a wristband to get into the place where we live? That is crazy!! What happened to the cute little sticker that went on the back of your I.D.?

Ohio University is a wonderful place. It is known for a beautiful campus, a good education, a diverse student body, celebrating the time change and, wouldn't ya know it?, Halloween!! Now we can be known for all of those and the fact that we have to have identification to get into our own dormitories.

I am one of the few students here who don't drink, so I am not worried about getting in trouble for the Halloween weekend. That isn't the point. The point is that the students were not consulted for this policy, or at least that is what I have been told. The other point I have already stated earlier about getting into our own dormitories.

I have to admit, I am not the smartest, nor the most intellectual person down here in Athens. But I would have to say that I represent a good part of the student body. From what I can sense, a lot of people would write the same thing.

As I sit here, I am wondering what some other school's policies might be for Halloween that we can consider for the years to come. Here they are:

n Miami: You must be wearing khaki pants and a collared shirt for admittance.

n Marshall: You must be dating your sister.

n Kent: You must be wearing a starter jacket and must be carrying a shotgun.

n Bowling Green: Well, I don't know anything about Bowling Green so I am just going to say that you have to be a moron, good enough.

n Ohio State: You must have smoked a bowl with every football player within the last 24 hours.

So the bottom line is that wristbands are asinine. But look at the bright side, at least we don't have to date our sisters.

Glick can be reached at Allman144@aol.com.

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