Although students today do not need to carry as many things to school, Cerritos College students are still in terrible need of on-campus lockers.

Pete Moye’
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The fact that some will not use them and others might find them to be a step back in maturity is hypocritical.

Those same people are probably the ones who do not invest in their own educations and fail to buy their books to begin with.

The distance dedicated students may have to walk each day with a full load of books, laptop and other necessary items very between each situation.

So with that in mind, why not have lockers available for those students on campus and at locations convenient to each student?

Although the athletic lockers are available for almost any student on campus, the lockers may be too much of a detour and end up being more trouble then help.

Besides, who really wants to walk into a smelly locker room to fetch items everyday?

Some may say that the school does not have the funds to provide such a thing, but if students show interest and take initiative in having personal lockers, then the school will eventually comply.

Providing the school with a proposal of how the operation can be done will speed up the process.

A proposal that can make the lockers a real possibility is by just taking three steps.

One would be the process of choosing the locations of the lockers in which would be most effective for the student body.

As simple as a mass questionnaire from the school, students interested in participating, the correct and vital information can be discovered.

During that time students can name the locations in which they would want to have a locker.

The second step that would bring the lockers to the students would be issuing terms of use for each semester.

The terms will consist of the school not being responsible for any lost or stolen items along with other rules.

The final and easiest step would be actually using the lockers.

The school would have spent time and money that it does not have to provide for the students, so show appreciation and use them.