Boo to the possibility of bikes, skateboards and anything else with wheels being banned on campus. Since its invention, the wheel has only helped mankind in furthering our technological advances and its no secret that bikes, blades, boards and scooters are valued forms of transportation on a college campus. However, give a longboard to an inexperienced rider and your leisurely stroll to class just might turn into a live-action game of Frogger. Except, instead of dodging traffic, you’ll be dodging someone in flip-flops and a backwards hat flying toward you at Mach 10. Want to keep your wheels? Walk them.
Bravo to three ASU football players being named to various college all-star games. Seniors Garth Gerhart, Gerell Robinson and Colin Parker have all accepted invitations to play in various games honoring their achievements on the field.
Gerhart, a center, started 35 games in his Sun Devil career and was voted a team captain by his teammates prior to the season. Gerhart will participate in the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala. Also voted a team captain, linebacker Colin Parker will attend the Casino Del Sol College All-Star Game in Tucson. Parker led the team with 75 tackles and was named to the Honorable Mention All-Pac-12 Team. After setting a career high in receiving yards and breaking the MAACO Bowl record for receiving yards, wide receiver Gerell Robinson accepted the invitation to the East-West Shrine Game in St. Petersburg, Fla. While the Sun Devils’ season did not end the way anyone hoped, the individual accomplishments of these players were simply too great to be ignored.
Boo to excessive handouts and petitions being shoved in our faces all over campus. Distributing information is perhaps the first instrumental step in the education of the masses. Regardless, even if we all really did have a minute to sign a petition against childhood obesity, global warming, third world genocide, factory farms, putting better soda machines in the MU, etc., we would be wasting essential time. Actions speak louder than signatures and if we stopped to listen to every preacher on their soapbox, nothing would ever get done, we’d never make it to class and all of us would somehow end up as subscribers to whatever Looterang is.
Bravo to the Faithful City Club for their philanthropic efforts of cleaning up Hudson and Daley Parks and for reaching out to students by providing fun ways to give back to the community while building relationships within the diverse student body of ASU.
Bravo to Carleton Moore, founding director of the Center for Meteorite Studies for being a Sun Devil since 1961. Moore’s contributions in Meteorite Studies have made him a legendary source in the field and have garnered national attention for the Harvey H. Nininger collection, which houses 1,700 different meteorites from all over the galaxy, right here in Tempe.
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