2008 Woodie Awards
The new student center would be done by now…
...If Michael were a Monarch
Michael Tate
Issue date: 8/31/07 Section: Opinion
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I am tired of waiting for the new student center to be completed. I want my new gym that, I have heard, will provide me with the opportunity of playing late-night basketball. I want the chance to go over to the gym and shoot around for a few minutes in between classes. Since there are so many athletic teams on campus, that never seems to be a possibility, especially in late winter. At that time of year, it is apparently too cold for the baseball players to practice outside, and both the basketball and track teams are in the middle of their seasons. Plus, football players who are returning for the following season have to get in their daily workouts. Let us not forget the cheer & dance team, too.
I refer to the gym as "my" gym and student activities center because it will be mine; it will belong to all of us on campus. I think that we are all ready for the new student center to be completed, everyone from the Pfeiffer girls who want weights to stop rumbling their dorm rooms, to the athletes who cannot wait for a beautiful new training facility, to President Kerstetter himself. I have been ready to see the darn thing completed since I was first being recruited/deciding to come here.
In speaking of myself, I now make note of how I have been watching the construction. I lived very near to the construction site during the past two summers and checked the progress almost daily. I work for a professor on the 4th floor of the science hall, and take advantage of this low-flying bird's eye view to see what is new with the top of the buildings. I attended the groundbreaking ceremony last summer. I interviewed the president about it last year and wrote an article for the Advance. I cannot say that my reasons for wanting to see the new student center completed are as solid as those of the athletes who will be able to use the new facility for practice, but I am nonetheless growing impatient, loathingly and ravenously impatient. The construction seems to be taking so long that I just feel like rubbing a lamp and wishing for it to be over since I am so exhausted from all of this waiting and watching.
I refer to the gym as "my" gym and student activities center because it will be mine; it will belong to all of us on campus. I think that we are all ready for the new student center to be completed, everyone from the Pfeiffer girls who want weights to stop rumbling their dorm rooms, to the athletes who cannot wait for a beautiful new training facility, to President Kerstetter himself. I have been ready to see the darn thing completed since I was first being recruited/deciding to come here.
In speaking of myself, I now make note of how I have been watching the construction. I lived very near to the construction site during the past two summers and checked the progress almost daily. I work for a professor on the 4th floor of the science hall, and take advantage of this low-flying bird's eye view to see what is new with the top of the buildings. I attended the groundbreaking ceremony last summer. I interviewed the president about it last year and wrote an article for the Advance. I cannot say that my reasons for wanting to see the new student center completed are as solid as those of the athletes who will be able to use the new facility for practice, but I am nonetheless growing impatient, loathingly and ravenously impatient. The construction seems to be taking so long that I just feel like rubbing a lamp and wishing for it to be over since I am so exhausted from all of this waiting and watching.
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