{"id":7256,"date":"2025-10-04T14:14:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T19:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2025-10-04T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T19:14:32","slug":"point-we-should-increase-fire-drills-counterpoint-lets-add-a-gym-requirement-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/04\/point-we-should-increase-fire-drills-counterpoint-lets-add-a-gym-requirement-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Point: We Should Increase Fire Drills\/Counterpoint: Let\u2019s Add A Gym Requirement Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Point: We Should Increase Fire Drills<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fire drills are paramount to student safety. By providing students with simulated experiences of what would occur in the event of an actual fire, fire drills instruct students in how to respond calmly and safely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without these essential drills, students would wreak havoc, sprinting around in circles while wiggling their arms in the air like cartoon characters. Dozens of students may perish. A fire dragon could spawn after enough deaths. To prevent all three of these tragedies, the University must increase the number of fire drills to ensure that the appropriate response is engraved into each student\u2019s muscle memories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, the increase of fire drills would not disturb student life. Even at midnight, it is more than likely that half of the student population is studying at the Reg while the other half is sobbing uncontrollably under their beds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Counterpoint: Let\u2019s Add A Gym Requirement Instead<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Face it. The only consequence of increasing fire drills is to force exhausted, sleep-deprived students to climb down the stairs (good luck to those on the 16th floor in Woodlawn) and stand outside in a raging blizzard for thirty minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re all college students. We\u2019re perfectly aware that the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BEEP BEEP BEEP<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the fire alarm means \u201cGET OUTSIDE YOU UTTER IMBECILE\u201d or \u201cFRED FORGOT TO ADD WATER TO THE MAC AND CHEESE AGAIN \u2013 THAT IDIOT.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So stop trying to be covert and instead be overt. Add the gym requirement. It\u2019ll do the same thing, but in a warmer environment. 25 pushups, everyone!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re all college students. We\u2019re perfectly aware that the BEEP BEEP BEEP of the fire alarm means \u201cGET OUTSIDE YOU UTTER IMBECILE\u201d or \u201cFRED FORGOT TO ADD WATER TO THE MAC AND CHEESE AGAIN \u2013 THAT IDIOT.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":7257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7258,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions\/7258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}