“Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.” – Anonymous

Everyone has heard of the “Girl Code” or the “Man Law.” All girls know you shouldn’t date your best friend’s ex-boyfriend. Men know that you shouldn’t pick the urinal directly to the left or right of another guy if other ones are free.

The codes and laws are common knowledge to most, things that were ingrained into their brains before birth. Somehow, there are a few people who have escaped being educated and make life difficult for the rest of us by breaking these unspoken rules. For those out of the know people, I offer you the “Wolf Law,” or common sense rules for social interaction at NCSU .

1. Stop wearing UNC shirts. If you are wearing a UNC shirt, then one of two things is wrong with you. Either you love Chapel Hell more than NCSU , or you didn’t get into UNC and feel disdainful toward your enrollment at NCSU . As for those who fall under the first category, you should transfer because we don’t want you here anymore, and you clearly don’t want to be here. For those who fall into the second category, get over it. You’re at N.C . State now, so act accordingly.

2. Stop parking badly. Everyone knows that the parking lots are already poorly designed at N.C . State, so don’t make it worse with your crooked parking, especially on West Campus with parking spaces designed solely for Mini Coopers. If you’re driving a compact car, then you should not be half in one space and half in the other. This starts off a chain reaction of horrible parking. I am seriously sick of climbing out of my passenger side door.

Sometimes poor parking makes it impossible to take the space at all, forcing you to park farther away from your dorm. This is a huge problem for students, who may be returning late and have to walk through campus in the dark to get to the safety of their dorms.

3. Do not take elevators to the second floor. Taking the elevator to the fourth floor is permissible, but anything below is unacceptable. If your foot isn’t broken, you can walk. You have to stop at every floor of D.H . Hill Library as it is, so adding the first three floors on top of that is just plain irritating. If you don’t want people to think you’re a lazy bum, there are things called stairs. Try them out sometime.

4. Do not talk in D.H . Hill Library. Don’t run through the library yelling to your friends about how much homework you have outside of the Learning Commons. If you have that much work, it should not be that hard to keep your mouth shut. Contrary to popular opinion, some students actually do study in study areas. Your voice ringing through their ears is not appreciated.

5. Don’t pay cash at the Atrium during lunch. If that means you have to put $6 on your All Campus account at a time, so be it. It’s frustrating if you’re in a line of 20 students and the guy at the register is digging through his pockets for the correct amount of change. Some students don’t have that much time in between classes to grab lunch, you don’t want to be the reason they’re late for their next class. Even if you’re a freshman, you’ve been in college too long to be that guy.

6. And another thing about lunch, if you’re in any of the dining halls, don’t make your salad one crouton at a time. It’s not about my inability to be patient with you. It’s about your inability to get food like normal humans. Who scoops one crouton at a time? It’s people like you that make me lose hope in mankind.

7. Don’t talk in dorm breezeways at night. The walls and windows are paper thin, and some people actually try to sleep at 2 a.m , despite what you may think. You don’t need to be calling your bro at 2 a.m . about getting on Halo. You should be sleeping instead of wasting time on Xbox anyway. Either hang up, stand in the stairwell, or get out of the dorms. Two words: common courtesy.

I guarantee if you follow these seven Wolf Laws, you will be well on your way to becoming a socially acceptable member of the Wolfpack . Next week, grab a copy of the Technician in order to finalize your membership as an accepted member of Wolfpack society.