Challenges from the ASCC

I probably could have told you what happened at the ASCC senate meeting today before it happened.

A bunch of commissioners and other positions were appointed today.

Before each appointing, the senate is allowed to ask questions to make sure these candidates are right for the job.

The room was silent for the majority of these periods of time.

These students were then appointed.

I ask, where are the challenging questions?

All the information you are getting about these people coming from a piece of paper you are given or from their 30-second speeches.

The only questions that were asked were regarding GPA, how many units they are taking and school involvement.

Some senators wondered if the students up for the positions had time for student government.

These students need to be challenged before being appointed because we need to know that the best people are being put up for the jobs.

Because someone says they want to try something new doesn't mean that person is qualified or reliable enough to be in the position.

But for some of these students, that's all we know about them.

Where's the symbol?

After watching both water polo games the other day, I got to thinking.

Why doesn't the men's team sport the Falcon logo?

The players have the Falcon on their swimsuits, but you don't see that much at all in a game.

The women's players have the Falcon on their helmets, where they're noticed and look quite good.

The men's players simply have "CC" printed on theirs. Playing against ECC the other day, that could get confusing for someone.

There might be a reason for this. I'm just throwing this out there.

I think as a standard, water polo teams need their logos on their helmets, just as football teams have their logos on their helmets.

Preaching on campus

On Wednesday, there were three people that were preaching to students about God and Christianity in the amphitheater.

What I noticed in particular was a total disrespect from both worshipers and non-worshipers.

What these people were preaching is that they're right about religion and anyone who disagrees is wrong.

And there were students that weren't giving these people the respect and let them say what they wanted to say.

However, there are people on campus that don't want to hear about religion. Christians deserve respect but so do the evolutionists, atheists, agnostics and any other type of believer.

There was one student that was debating with the first speaker. They carried on their debate close enough to respectful.

But there were other students that were singing and making rude comments, interrupting them.

I think these people are doing a good thing, but need to go to a different setting than a popular student hangout spot.

They were obviously going to get more backlash than praise.

They could have easily put up posters like, "Want to be saved? Come to (insert location) at (insert date and time)."

That way, they could save those who want to be saved. Obviously, all their words on Wednesday fell on deaf ears and all they got in return was sarcastic comments.