The Graphic editorial staff would like to take a moment to recognize the accomplishments of many individuals on campus who are making this university a better place to be as well as point out some areas where we could use a little improvement.
The staff is proud to be a part of a No. 47 nationally ranked university and want to give credit where credit is due. At the same time, we’d like to move up to No. 46. So, in the spirit of constructive criticism, here’s our list of cheers and jeers over the last month:
• Cheers to the Student Government Association for producing something beneficial to the students and surrounding community of Pepperdine with the recent Dashboard Confessional concert. As we have seen in the past with the Caedmon’s Call and Jars of Clay concerts, these types of events are largely successful with high attendance.
The packed Firestone Fieldhouse demonstrated the popularity of the bands selected, and allowing local bands to perform with a professional group is not only beneficial to the bands, but draws in more students who might not have known Dashboard Confessional prior to the event.
Although the acoustics of the Fieldhouse are not typically conducive to live music, the arrangement for this particular concert showed that it is possible to host a rockin’ concert in a basketball gym.
The crowd sang along in a musical bonding session with the Emo-idol Chris Carrabba, leader of Dashboard Confessional and the performance was awesome despite Carrabba’s illness.
• Cheers to Aria Decline and Black Molly on fantastic performances and cheers to Ocean’s 37 Concert Chair Jimmy Hutcheson for making the concert possible.
• Cheers to the new trash cans on campus. Without the old square lids you can finally fit to-go Caf containters and other trash into the cans.
• Cheers to the new open parking spaces up on the Drescher Graduate Campus. It’s not a complete solution to the parking jam on campus, but it’s a great start. Maybe we can get valet service next.
• Jeers to all the deer on campus. After four deer attacked a McDonald’s in Washington a couple of weeks ago, Bambi and her followers no longer seem as friendly and the ending to that movie not nearly as sad.
• Jeers to Web mail constantly being down. College students are too dependent on e-mail as a source of communication for it to be so inconsistent. How are we supposed to be in the know if we don’t have constant access to the multiple e-mails from Public Relations and News, the SGA and the Career Center each week? Jeers also to the unnecessary use of urgent markings and exclamation points in some of these e-mails.
• Cheers to some of the great Thursday night films SGA has brought to campus, such as last week’s “Signs.” It’s great to see free movies before we can even rent them at Blockbuster.
• Cheers to the several new clubs on campus, such as Up ‘Til Dawn whose sole purpose is philanthropy. Cheers also to the hard work of the Pepperdine Volunteer Center in organizing such extensive opportunities to serve over Spring Break this year. Other events such as the Santa Monica Pier “Day of the Child” this Sunday and next week’s “Hunger and Homelessness Week” are further establishing Pepperdine as a university that edifies students for lives of service.
• Cheers to all the Pepperdine sports teams who are kicking keisters and taking names all over the West Coast Conference, such as women’s soccer, women’s volleyball, men’s water polo and women’s golf.
• Cheers too to the No. 8 nationally ranked Debate Team and other individuals such as opera sopranos senior Jessica Tivens and 1996 alumna Jessica Riviera, both who finished as top winners at the Western Regional Finals of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, who are all well representing Waves in their respective fields.
November 07, 2002