Welcome to Leonard, September!

So I am now officially the Don of Leonard Hall at Queen's University-Floor 3 East! I have 35 students, one of who moved in today for Football training.

I have to say that this is a great feeling, I have never looked forward to September so much in my life. I really hope to be an inspiration and positive role model to my residents. The residence coordinators really pumped us up this week during Don training with sensitivity workshops and a whole new vocabulary of politically-correct terms. I feel ready for anything!

I have also determined the theme of my floor decorations and that is....cereal box characters! So I am busy right now colouring these cartoons like mad. It is a fun time and I am liking how my floor is shaping up- I am a lot more creative than I give myself credit for sometimes.

Other then Don training, there is one more dilemma I am grappling with right now and that is my position on drinking, especially underage drinking. Do we turn a blind eye to maintain a good rapport with our residents? Or should we enforce the law? It is such a grey area- made more grey by my personal experience. I fell victim to the drinking culture in first year- my lack of drinking isolated me from the culture here, making residence not very fun for me. Yet here I am almost condoning it because that is "just what we do here at Queen's". What about those who enter university and need to be protected from alcohol because they don't believe in it or just don't want to be around it? Shouldn't they be considered as well?

Good grief! I have not yet even settled my own feelings about drinking, and already I have to determine how I feel about others drinking. Oh woe! the inner conflict!!

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