{"id":2870,"date":"2011-09-09T19:38:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T00:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2011-09-15T08:27:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:27:46","slug":"hometown-pride-or-hometown-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/2870","title":{"rendered":"Hometown pride or hometown discrimination?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By Claire DeRoin —
\n<\/strong>\u201cIf attending college in your hometown isn\u2019t still living at home with your parents, I don\u2019t know what is.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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<\/em>Statements like this can occasionally be heard around campus, usually tossed around by students from areas outside of the Sioux City metropolitan area. There seems to be a stigma attached to attending college in one\u2019s hometown. Locals attending Morningside often experience negative attitudes and derogatory comments for their decision to stay near home. Contrary to popular belief, not every Sioux City native goes home every week. Sioux City locals have the same opportunity for independence as every other student.<\/p>\n

Jen Jauron and Steph Peters from Morningside\u2019s Admissions Office offered up a few statistics on the subject. Ten percent of this year\u2019s freshman class is from Sioux City or South Sioux City, Nebraska. If the nearby towns of Sgt. Bluff, LeMars, Hinton, and Lawton are added in, the number jumps to 18 percent.<\/p>\n

Jauron, a Sgt. Bluff native, is a Morningside alum as well as admissions counselor. She originally planned on attending Augustana College in Sioux Falls but switched to Morningside at the last minute. As a local, she understands attending college near home. \u201cWhy would you not go to a school just because it\u2019s in your backyard?\u201d she laughs. \u201cIf it\u2019s the best school for you, it\u2019s the best school for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steph Peters, also an admissions counselor, agrees. \u201cSome people do want to stay near home, some people don\u2019t want to. Students know that if they have a good school here, why not take advantage of it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Although not from the Sioux City area, Peters has come to understand these touchy subjects.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou get out of college what you put in to it.\u201d Students from Sioux City don\u2019t always go home as often as out-of-towners perceive, she continues. She gave a few examples of students from the area that only went home on vacations and holidays.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just hard to stereotype,\u201d Peters says.<\/p>\n

There are other students on campus who feel the scrutiny from out-of-towners.<\/p>\n

Jordyn Lapierre, a junior elementary education major from Sioux City, knows the ridicule that non-locals give to Sioux City natives. \u201cI have gotten grief for going to college in my hometown, but I look at the positives. I love being from Sioux City and knowing my way around the town.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danielle Dahlkoetter is a junior psychology major. \u201cI can see the benefits of going to college in your hometown: close to home, free laundry, easy to keep up with family and friends,\u201d she says. She has none of these luxuries, as her hometown is Grant, Nebraska. Dahlkoetter has a seven hour drive from her home to campus. Does she regret it? Not one bit. \u201cI feel much more independent and sure of myself because I am out of my element here and doing well.\u00a0 If I hadn’t taken the chance of going to college so far away from everything familiar to me, I wouldn’t have been able to see what I am really capable of on my own.\u201d<\/p>\n

So is going to college in one\u2019s hometown ever the right choice? Does living near one\u2019s family stifle their chance at independence? As with every decision, negatives come with the positives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe negative of being so close to home [is] that it is easier for my parents to check up on me and know what I am doing,\u201d Jordyn says.<\/p>\n


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