Warning Signs in Sanata Dharma

I usually hear that Sanata Dharma University wants to be a green campus. How can it be a green

campus? We still have some problems. One of the problems that can make the campus dirty is smoking in the campus area. Smoking makes the environment dirty. I found in the article (www.saveourbeach.com) that said cigarette filter would go in 1-5 years. Smoking also can kill people, because it can cause lung cancer and TBC. Angger and I made an interview with the cleaning services, Mr. Toto. He said; “Some students do care with the classroom, whereas others do not care; we have found some cigerette filters in the classroom” (interview in September, 19th 2013). How can Sanata Dharma be a green campus when students keep on smoking in the campus area and throwing the ciggarette filters in the classroom? I think the best way to stop the smoking in the campus area is that the campus and students should create more signs to remind smokers who smoke in the campus area. Creating some warning signs stops smoking in the area campus, because the warning signs will create society punishments, campus punishments, and self- punishments.

Warning signs stop smoking, because they will create the society punishments. When there are many warning signs, especially in the student hall, rumah jamur, and the classroom, students and teachers will be more aware about the problem. When all of the people in Sanata Dharma are aware with the warnings, there will be some good habits. They will support and care about the problem. They will make social punishments for smokers who smoke in the campus area, for example: they will reprimend, gossip and scold the smokers; I think the actions will make the smokers shy. Indonesia is a communal society; that’s why the society has big power to control an individual. I think that the power of society punishment in the Sanata Dharma will stop smokers.

Warning signs stop smoking, because they will show the campus punishment. If only students care about the problem, smoking will never stop. I think the campus should care by making some serious punishments for the smokers. If the campus only keeps calm, the problem will be bigger. Students who still study in the campus must feel the authority of the campus; it will help to stop smoking. The campus should learn from Singapore. When the government makes some serious punishments for the people who do littering and do smoking in public places, the country become a clean and good country.

Warning signs stop smoking, because they will make self-punishments. I just found 5 warning “no smoking” around the campus. They are on the walls, but I think the position of the signs is not very central. The important area, such as student hall, pgsd hall, and classroom, don’t get the signs. When there are many signs, especially in the central spots, the signs will remind the smokers. The smokers will begin aware. The signs will help smokers growing the self awareness. They will feel shy, if they do smoking at the campus. If they cannot start to care to other by no smoking, the signs will help and remind the smokers to make a good habit.

The opposite opinion say that we cannot condemn smokers, because smoking is a human right. Let us see this comment.

“Smoking is a human right” (Mahmud MD, translated from:

http: //news.detik.com/read/2012/04/18/124638/1895222/10/ruang-khusus-merokok-ketua-mk-merokok-hak-asasi-setiap-orang).

I think the smoking is not a human right when smokers do it in the campus area. Our campus wants to be a green campus. There are many people who want to study well and to live long. The fact that students smoke, even in the classroom, have to make us worried. We have to stop smoking by making more warning signs. To stop smoking and to make the campus green, the campus and the students have to make the signs now, because the signs will make a society punishment, a campus punishment, and a self-punishment.

Do you get what I mean by “we need more signs”? Smoking will still be our problem in the campus if we do not make the signs. The campus will never be a green campus, because the smoker will use the cigarettes to poison the people and to make the environment dirty. The cigarette filters also are a problem. They are gone after 1 to 5 years. If the students want to be healthy, we have to stop smoking. We need to be healthy to study well, don’t we? Finally, I say that let’s make more signs and stop smoking,