By By Ella Glass By Ella Glass
Who says that instructors are only about the grades?? Last Friday, the College of Arts and Sciences and its student council came together to host its annual picnic in the Humanities Quad. Hundreds of students enjoyed hot dogs, chips, cookies, watermelon, and snow cones. Music by SAB executive member Cory “Spicy Ice” Young welcomed students to the various contests on the lawn. Holding true to the A & S picnic tradition, political science professor Phil Laemmle again headed up the Hi Sticker machine stationed by the Life Sciences building. It looked students were standing in line to hit the carnival attraction. Psychology major Crystal Hall commented “Dr. Laemmle is so funny; I just stood there to hear him tell jokes.” There was also a watermelon seed spitting contest, freshly popped popcorn, and a balloon artist who made anything you could imagine. To conclude activities, there was a Frisbee throwing contest, where the prize was a large fluorescent-colored umbrella that correlated with this year’s theme “The Future is Looking Bright”.
Freshman LEAD Director Samantha Barrett encourages all students to come and hang out in the council office. Barrett proudly wears this year’s new council shirt. “Hey you, our next council meeting is Tuesday, September 17th, 7pm, Davidson 112!” she yelled across the lawn to the food line. Freshman Holly Glass asked, “So what exactly does A & S council do?” Junior Communication major JP Davis replied, “In a nutshell, we host events for the student body to come together and we represent student concerns to A & S administrators.” On the academic side of things, RSOs associated with the college were on hand to educate attendees about their purposes. Among them were Psi Chi, the Psychology Honor Society, The CONNET Peer Mentor Program, International Service Learning program, and the McConnell Center for Political Leadership, which were registering people to vote and talking about the Center’s upcoming events. Notably, Secretary of Defense Condoleezza Rice will visit the University of Louisville on October 7, 2002. Becky Schneider, a sophomore finance major from Ashland, KY, commented, “I am very excited to meet her, especially after meeting Secretary of State Colin Powell last year. Her visit comes at an interesting time (referring to the national situation concerning Iraq).” Arts and sciences senator Sarah Alford told a group of students about some of the other news in the college as Alumni Council members posed for a picture with current council. “I hope that someone who missed the picnic would stop by the A & S Student Council office in Davidson 112. We hold open houses bi-monthly and would love to have them,” said Jennifer Hughes as faculty, staff and students began to clean up the Humanities Quad.
