Murray State wants to help us by changing our due date times but didn’t consider asking faculty or students how they felt about this.

By the winter term, the campus deadline times for assignments will be automatically set at 5 p.m. Changing the deadline time is supposed to incentivize students to go to bed at a better time rather than staying up till midnight to do an assignment. This decision comes from the recommendation of the Quality enhancement plan (QEP) and not from professors or students.

This decision comes with no consideration for how students feel. The 11:59 p.m. standard deadline is a staple in student life. Changing this deadline only hurts students and makes their lives even harder.

Many students have lives outside of going to classes and doing homework. Some have jobs going into the latter half of the day or clubs that run until the sun sets. Some students are still in class when the 5 p.m. deadline comes around.

This decision aims to improve students’ sleeping habits, but, in reality, it provides even more stress for students, who now have to change their entire schedule to fit around a deadline that is in the middle of the day. If you have an event that is around 5 p.m., instead of being able to do your homework afterward, you have to finish it beforehand which lines up with most classes.

Students won’t have time for clubs or activities held by residential colleges anymore because they are losing hours of homework time to some people in suits who say it will help them.

Students are now left with an even busier workload just because some people who haven’t been in school for more than 20 years decided to “help their sleep schedule.”

This decision could have been made at the discretion of professors or people who interact with students regularly. Most professors never had an issue with the 11:59 p.m. deadline either because they could grade the assignments another day.

Instead of that, the turn-in time for assignments was decided by people who have no idea how hard a student’s life can be.

With all the mental health changes trying to be made on campus, you would expect the University to listen to student’s needs. Instead of that, we end up with awful decisions that will make students’ lives even worse.

We at The News find this decision ridiculous and uncalled for. No one on this campus complained about the 11:59 p.m. deadline.

Rather, if a professor changed the time from anything other than 11:59 p.m., it was looked down upon by students.

If the people who made this come to their senses, please reverse this decision not just for the sake of The News, but for the sake of every student on campus.