Strolling on campus, I sometimes feel sorry to find broken statues and other smashed pieces of artifacts which were once set up for good purposes. If they are ancient relics that can no longer endure the effects of weather, a romantic may linger for a while to appreciate them in highly meditative moments. Unfortunately, they are not such things; they are the results of willful human destruction. As I see the sites of destruction, I wonder what kind of person dares to destroy objects on public display. Why do people destroy? For what purpose? On second thought, it seems to me that nothing but a sheer pleasure of destruction-the opposite of a joy of creation-is responsible for such behavior.
To make the matter worse, vandals sometimes add insult to injury by leaving marks of mockery on the destroyed objects.  What makes me feel even sadder is that most people pay no attention to the broken statues or other artifacts on campus.  This indifferent attitude toward the senseless acts of destruction seems as much detrimental to our sense and sensibility as the acts of destruction themselves. We should not be as permissive to the vandalism widely committed on campus any longer.
In a way, making boisterous noises, singing loud songs, and playing rowdy games on campus are also different forms of vandalism. Unlike the cases of destruction of statues and other artifacts, these acts of virtual vandalism caught public attention only recently. An article published in the CBNU Times (the Korean edition) last semester reports on this problem. The noise pollution on and around the campus has reached a disturbing level, and it is my hope that CBNU will do something about it. The efforts to make the campus noise-free would fail if the noisemakers themselves did not change their ways.
At the beginning of the last spring semester, many faculty members and students were seriously distracted from their work by the loud noises created by students engaged in outdoor activities. The noises continued on a daily basis for more than five weeks in a row. I am not against students’ outdoor activities; they are meaningful part of college student life.  My point is that students should be sensible and responsible enough to consider the impact of their noisy, overexcited actions on those who are not part of their activities. It would be a good idea to use remote areas such as the stadium and an auditorium for their activities. Otherwise, they will disturb others on campus even if they are not as ill-intentioned as sculpture vandals. The university is a place for students to learn knowledge and skills necessary for their future careers. It is also a place to cultivate themselves as humane, considerate, and compassionate individuals, which is supposedly the most essential component of university education.