Busy season for campus recreation

It's the busy season for campus recreation. Currently, there are three sports leagues going on with many mini-tournaments coming up. www.fau.edu/campusrec has details on sign up.

The five-on-five indoor soccer league was changed to a five-on-five outdoor modified soccer league this season. The renovation of The Burrow forced the changed. With this modifieid soccer league, more goals are being scored because there is no goalie. The soccer season is currently in round two of the playoffs.

The sand volleyball league has less participants than expected. Four fraternities and four mixed men's and women's teams are in their second week of regular season play and will begin the playoffs next week. The teams play on the sand volleyball court at the housing BBQ pits. This draws more attention to the program and to the activities they host.

Finally, the softball league just started and is by far the most looked forwarded to league of the school year. Even those students that aren't athletically inclined can go out on the diamond and screw around. There are about 10 teams signed up for intramural softball.

Mini-tournaments coming up include a seven-on-seven, one day, flag football tournament, a dodge ball tournament is scheduled for Thursday and an ultimate frisbee tournament is coming up in a week.

Other events on campus this week is a freshman graduation program sponsored by The Board. This is something that has never happened. It is aimed to help retain freshman and encourage them to finish the semester strong.

Coyote Jack's will host the Jewish Student Union's date auction on Tuesday night. Yours truly will be auctioned off. I don't expect any high bidders for a date with me - it's just mini-golf and Moe's.

Baseball and softball both have home games this week as well. Check www.fausports.com for information on game time and schedules.

On a personal note: this is the last blog I will be writing as a student at FAU. Hopefully I will continue to contribute as an alum. In my opinion, this would give an interesting perspective of how the university looks to recent alum who don't live in the area anymore.

Thanks for the memories FAU.

What the campaign SHOULD have been about on campus

Congratulations to Tony Texeira and Abe Cohen for winning the student government election this week.

Also - congratulations to Sigma Phi Epsilon for winning Greek Week for the fraternities for the fifth straight year and congratulations to Theta Phi Alpha for winning Greek Week for the sororities.

Now that the election is over...

Tony and Abe: Members of the two biggest fraternities on campus. That means they will have support at their events (their brothers and their friends in the Greek community). However, it also means that they might not be 100 percent dedicated to their job in student government. I think Abe is a born leader and is really good at taking an event or an idea and running with it. Tony is good at sticking to his guns and facing adversity.

Jared and Rocky: Jared's fraternity won comeback organization of the year and finished third in Greek Week. Rocky dropped his fraternity letters about two or three years ago - about the same time he got heavily involved in SG. I think Jared is truly dedicated to improving this university and supporting the ideas of students. He was involved with the student spirit groups this year and help to create the Crazy Cooney's and the Rowdy Rex's. Rocky...well, he has been involved with the "regime" for the last few years. Ya know, the "regime" that bought $200,000 worth of couches for the UC, raised their own pay 25 percent and took a nice "leadership trip" to Key West for over $10,000.

Here's one thing that the candidates forgot: free stuff and spirit.

Candidates were right to say they would support Greek Housing, the fitness center, etc. If you didn't support those things, you would be committing political suicide. What they forgot to advocate was for free stuff. T-shirts, food, etc. That's what students care about. Generally, they don't care about what you did last year. Generally, they are concerned about the future of the university and new buildings going up. They want t-shirts. They want free food. They want more money for their clubs.

What someones campaign platform should have been was: You pay $10 in A & S fees per credit hour. We'll make sure you get that money back. We'll give you free food events once a week in the Breezeway. We'll give you cups that you can go to the cafeteria in the Breezeway and have refills on for only 50 cents instead of paying almost $2.00 for a large soda everyday. We'll give you a Starbucks mug to refill your coffee everyday for a reduced price. We'll give you t-shirts that you can wear around the university to receive discounts at the cafeteria and bookstore.

That's what students want. They want something NOW. Most students won't want to support new buildings that they won't even see construction begin on, let alone open before they transfer or graduate. They want things NOW.