doing homework, they spend their time destroying their intellect looking at a square box not even remembering what happened two minutes beforehand. A BGSU student, Keith Piper, also known as “Viper,” with notes in hand, staring at the television falling into a “television trance,” managed to groggily slur this peculiar comment before trailing off into television delirium, “My intention is to do my homework but the TV distracts me. I never even look down at my notes. The TV is a drug. It is an addiction. My addiction. It beckons me. It controls me. I can’t turn it off. I am its servant…” The rest of the statement was to unintelligible to be put into a quote form. This was yet another victim of the “television fixation,” not completely the fault of cable television, but the combination, along with the propensity of many college students to fall into these mindless television trances, is definitely part of the problem. These two variables make for a bad outcome. Can we let this imminent problem of television fixation, brought about by cable, bestow unyielding damage to the minds of more innocent young campus residents. Something needs to be done fast, or will others face the same fate of poor Keith Piper? God rest his mind and physical health. The physical and mental health of campus living students is also affected by the provision of cable television. The physical health of the average college student is another thing that is at risk by an excessive amount of attention paid to the television. The impact that the television has on discouraging physical activity on a college campus is another major problem that has been brought about by the coming of cable television. For example, instead of going to the recreation center and playing Marco Polo in the pool, or a good game of ping pong, students are spending there time in front of the television, eating cheesy poo...
