OUR VIEWS Hot or Not

HOT: Track and field

Members of the track and field team excelled at this month’s NCAA Championships. The women’s 4x100 relay team took sixth place, pushing the women’s team to a 15th place finish, unprecedented in the team’s history. Chaunte Howard won the national title in the women’s high jump, making her a four-time All-American and qualifying her for the U.S. Olympic trials in California this July.

NOT: Don’t come to Papa

Papa John’s was the first off-campus restaurant to accept BuzzCard. Now, due to conflicts with the BuzzCard Center, it no longer does, meaning that cash-strapped students won’t have BuzzCard funds to fall back on when they need a midnight pepperoni fix. It’s also disappointing news to anyone who was looking forward to expanding BuzzCard usage to other off-campus establishments.

HOT: No more school!

Well, for some of us, anyway. Students enrolled in seven-week summer sessions will be finished with classes next week, providing a nice vacation before fall semester begins in the next few months. Those of us in regular summer sessions, however, will still have five more grueling weeks to go-so hang in there.

NOT: A weighty issue

One of the most frequently-used areas of the CRC, the weight room, will be closed starting this week. Determined students can still work out at the Barbell Club in O’Keefe, but other patrons of the CRC will just have one less option for exercising indoors during one of the hottest months of the year.