"Get a Room," But Don't (Final Version) - for my english class

My lobby reeks of PDA (public display of affection) everyday. Freshmen making out, cuddling, and lying together on the couches, the floor, the piano bench, etc. The last time I checked, my lobby was not a bedroom. Is this appropriate behavior for a lobby? Certainly not. The freshman dormitory lobbies of Brigham Young University are places of gathering, chatting with friends, playing games, ward prayer, studying, watching TV, etc. Resident Assistants or Hall Advisors, please get them out of the lobbies!
Every student at Brigham Young University agrees to follow an honor code, implying that they understand it, including the section titled “Live a chaste and virtuous life.” This section declares, “A chaste and virtuous life encompasses many principles, including respect and self control as well as reserving sexual intimacy for marriage.”
There is a respectful manner of showing affection and there is a certain time and location for more intimate romance; procreative activity, for example.
Ask these lobby lovers if their respect and self control for each other and others is evident in these open lobbies. Most people who witness more passionate PDA than just holding hands, a peck, or hugging feel awkward and uncomfortable. Students who live in these dormitories don’t appreciate the romantic scene when they try to hang out with friends during non-visiting hours. Plus, these couples take up space in the lobby when they use a whole couch (made for three or four people seated comfortably) for themselves. Can someone please make them scoot over?
This affectionate activity should be shared in a more private setting. There are not many places for private activity on BYU’s campus, though, and I think there is a reason for that: administration does not want students in situations where they could break the laws of chastity. Now, your argument could be that it is better to have affection displayed in public by those who are not married rather than in private so chastity laws are not broken. But if there is even the slightest chance that they will tempt themselves, they should not be doing it at all. It is indeed better than “getting a room,” but if sexually arousing activity is more acceptable in private, it should only be done in private. Unmarried couples should be going on more productive dates getting to know each other better in other ways than physical. You can only learn so much about a boyfriend or girlfriend by staring at them, whispering intimate phrases, making out, etc.
You can only learn so much in school when you spend several hours lying in the lobby!
How does anyone get homework done or make it to classes? I barely have time for any leisure activities during the week days, let alone around $10,300 (total estimated cost for tuition and housing at BYU) to risk wasting. Along with going on more productive dates, these freshmen need to be more productive students. Shouldn’t this be encouraged better since this is a university, not only a Mormon hot spot for dating?
When the applications for BYU pour in only so many students receive the golden ticket of admission while others are rejected or put on a waiting list. In 2008, of those who were admitted, only 78% enrolled. This means that not everyone accepted their admissions and some of those lucky students on the waiting list had prayers answered. The others on the waiting list had to find another option.
Why do I connect this to the unproductive lovers in the lobby? They are like any other lazy person who has stolen the spot of a prospective student who could have reached greater potential if he or she had only been admitted into BYU.
There are better, more productive, and more appropriate ways of spending time together. There is a certain place and certain time for certain activities, and my lobby is not a location for “People with Distasteful Affection.” These students need to reread the honor code they signed and show more “respect for themselves and others.” The RAs and Hall Advisors need to enforce the “Live a chaste and virtuous life” section of the honor code in dormitories on campus more seriously as they do the rest of the honor code. And if anyone refuses to abide by the code they are obligated to follow, he or she should be escorted out of the lobby, or forewarned. The last time I checked, the BYU dormitory lobbies were not bedrooms.