A good campus not only provides adequate space for its students for their learning process. An academic environment is necessary to stimulate their development and decent college experience. However, tensions instead would ruin everything. No room for students to rest for a while to relax and – in certain places – having fun will only make them uncomfortable being in the campus. And FISIPOL UGM does not want that to happen. In UGM’s FISIPOL Campus, there are facilities for students to study, hold a discussion, or simply to mingle. For reading books and focusing on finishing one’s thesis, students can stit comfortably in Digilib for houts. If students want to work on college assignments while holding a discussion and eating, students can do it freely in Digilib Café or Fisipmart. For holding organizational meetings or group work, the West Hall (Selasar Barat), or the BC Hall can be utilized. Meanwhile, for those who likes to have discussions and mingle with friends, the chairs along SanSiro Park are ready to accommodate.
SanSiro Park is the place of consolation by students to release tensions and boredom from classroom activities. There, students can relax for a while and talk with one another, discuss, and even enjoy a cigarette. The last activity is appropriate and proper to be done in SanSiro remembering that SanSiro has a wide and open space.
However, the place on the south side of SanSiro, students asre asked to not smoke. That place is Fisipoint that is located in the Yongma Building.
Fisipoint is comprised of two floors. It is the place for almost every member of the academic community of FISIPOL UGM to take a moment to rest and eat in the middle of academic activities. Because of it, that place becomes an inappropriate place to smoke, with a simple reason that is simple and easily understood: almost all visitors come to Fisipoint to eat, not to smoke, or to inhale the smoke of others’ cigarette.
To understand all of it, let us imagine something for a little. How would someone feel when one wants to have a lunch break in peace, while one’s surroundings are full of cigarette smoke while one is not a smoker? Not everyone can stand this situation, or even to eat while inhaling cigarette smoke, right?
After all, the usage of the “political language” of we request you to not smoke or this area is smoking free on the signs on the table along Fisipoint are evidence of effeors to respect smokers. The campus have chosen to not use the phrase “No Smoking” that has a limiting impression.
Through the aforementioned respect and appreciation, it is not difficult at all for smokers to move a bit toward the north side (closer to SanSiro) and then they can light their cigarettes up. If things such as those are acknowledged, and thus made into habit, everyone can feel comfort regardless of whether they smoke.
Is it difficult to self-restrain ourselves to not smoke and obey the rules for a place that had given us comfort and many facilities to do many things – such as studying, self-improve, even to have fun? Everyone of course would stutter to find a strong reason to answer “yes”