Bravo to the Walk Your Wheels campaign and the award to Tempe for being a bicycle-friendly community. USG hopes to get the campaign off to a successful start and get students to walk their bikes, longboards, scooters, etc. on campus. They will enter students who walk their “wheels” on campus into drawings to win football tickets, Sun Dollars, and an iPad among other things. It is also awesome that Tempe was recognized for being a hospitable towards bikers. Not only is it good exercise, but it is also a “green” way of transportation.
Boo to “Tosh.0’s” episode that Daniel Tosh filmed at ASU. From ravaging through dorms with a black light looking for bodily fluid to a nude Santa Claus laying out in the sun, the episode was an embarrassment to ASU. Perhaps the only fun parts were when ASU students were involved. Tosh’s paradigm on ASU is clearly out of step with reality. While we thought it would be cool to have a celebrity film a popular show at our campus, it turned out we were wrong.
Bravo to ASU’s progress on its goal to be carbon neutral. The University is now able to generate 10 megawatts of solar energy. The energy is split up between 46 solar generating systems and can power 2,500 average Arizona homes. The 10 megawatts reduce the University’s carbon footprint by five to 10 percent and covers 20 percent of the peak energy usage. This shows the world, unlike the awful “Tosh.0” episode, that ASU is pioneering in the green energy field. At this pace, ASU may be carbon neutral by 2025.
Boo/Bravo to Gov. Rick Perry’s newest campaign advertisement. We give it a half-boo and a half-bravo. The bravo is due to the simple fact that the campaign commercial is slick. Love or hate the man, you feel patriotic after watching it. He casts President Barack Obama as “President Zero” with zero created jobs in August and zero hope. Rick Perry then casts himself as the man who rides in on a stallion and saves America. But we boo it because it is so well done that people may vote for him just because of the ad. We urge voters to cast their vote based on the issues, not awesome campaign commercials.
Bravo to the reopening of the Climbmax Climbing Gym. The gym, which closed for two days because of complications in lease agreements, reopened Friday of last week. We are glad that the local business opened its doors again. That means more jobs and more places to go rock climbing. The Phoenix climbing community, which is rather large, is ecstatic. The gym had a large following.
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