how taboo is taboo in the campus?

Taboos in school has never been much of an issue. For as long as there are students wanting to bend the rules as much as they could, these unaccepted acts will always be around. I even noticed that there is a perfectly effective way of getting away with breaking school rules and/or taboos. First is attitude-not totally arrogant and obnoxious but more of being in control. It's like knowing where to do what and when, like smoking, it is of course not allowed but i see a huge deal of people smoking inside the campus, they just know where to hide at a certain time. But if there's one thing you really must possess to be able to rid yourself of problems is by befriending employees of the school-the more powerful or the higher the position, the better. I'm not saying that a lot of the people that work in school let things slide, I just know that there are (let's just say) some that are probably "too friendly" to act upon such unacceptable behavior. But it's not too much of a deal, really. The rules they break and the things they do are not like the things other people do in their school-scandalous acts;I guess it's because we're more disciplined or probably few, so we're more tolerable.

"No story is worth dying for"

I went on to study Communication Arts knowing that journalism is not my goal. I do not know what will happen in the future but I will most likely opt not to enter in any "serious" media job. And that includes, writing about politics, the government, religion, or anything else that's bound to be controversial and maybe even life-threatening. I also never want to go to places wherein war is ongoing. Those jobs are crossed out in my list. And I think one of the reasons is pretty obvious, it's just that some things are not worth risking everything for. How will I be able to watch my award-winning documentary film played on my burial? And what the h*** are my family supposed to do with a medal or those plaque of appreciation whatevs? Needless to say, whatever I would get out of dying for a story is never going to replace my life that was wasted because I want to "liberate" my countrymen. But some people are selfless and brave enough to do so, maybe they're just a little more driven or that they have their own battles and beliefs to fight for. Yet even they admit that nothing is ever worth dying for, not just some story. And hearing them utter those words made me even more convinced that broadcasting/journalism is so not my thing.