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I hate this feeling I’m going through right now. It’s like I’m uber busy and really stressed out and don’t have free time, yet I’m still not useful or productive or…idk…employed? I don’t have time to do anything, yet I’m not doing anything with my time. It’s hard to explain. I’ll stop.
Pius had Community Day today. It’s a half-ish day without classes where everyone plays games, goes to mass, bonds with their TACs (homerooms for those of you not fluent in Catholic School) and go to a town hall meeting. In this town hall meeting we spend a solid hour-and-something discussing the needs of the poor abused freshmen who get booed periodically during events such as the upcoming pep rally. How umm…traumatic for them? Don’t get me wrong. I personally don’t boo freshmen. I just don’t think it’s necessary. I know some rather cool freshmen and at Greendale the treatment of freshmen was a bit worse, which didn’t sit well with me. So I don’t boo and never have. However, I don’t make a big deal out of it or accuse other people of committing a massive social injustice because they disagree with me. Above all, I don’t feel the need to spend a sizable chunk of my day crammed into St. Vincent Palatti’s (how the hell do you spell it?) church “dealing” with the “issue.”
There were other actually issues touched upon, such as our oh so healthy union food, in particular that controversial new slushy machine. Wow. Life changing, huh?
None of this would be bothering me so much if there weren’t lots of things that Pius should be talking about as a community. How about the way we sit in the union. Freshmen over there. Senior boys back there. Latinos in one corner. Black kids in the other. Head to the very back you anime nerd, you. And you, frosh, what do you think you’re doing in that corner by the juniors?
Correct me but isn’t self segregation a little more important than freshman getting booed a totally of, what…three times a year.
And while we’re discussing our dear old union, why stop with just healthier options? Why not add some healthy vegan options? There’s a foreign concept, huh? But let’s be honest here, how many self-respecting vegans feel good about financially fueling the massive corporate slop machine that is Sodexho. The inflated Sodexho prices are just too ridiculous for me to comment on.
There was one very good point that was briefly mentioned toward the end of the town hall meeting. It’s an issue I’ve talked with Nikki about on a few occasions. Why do you need to play a sport in order to make it onto homecoming court? What about the countless students who do forum or campus ministry or art club or do dance shows or even (here’s a shocker) plays? It’s not like Pius is a school that’s sports focused. I mean, we some great sports teams, but we also have a dance program that’s probably second only to Arts. Our theatre department is awesome, as is our choir department. I mean, madrigal?!? Our band department is definitely worth noting. Plus we’ve won all sorts of visual arts awards. Shouldn’t that count for just as much as athletics?
Don’t take this rant the wrong way. I love Pius. I really really love it. There’s no school I’d rather be at. But it still has flaws that go way beyond an occasional boo and sometimes I wonder what we really do about them.
I feel like writeing a petition or something about the whole homecomeing thing. I don’t’ know…
I’m gonna go to bed before my thoughts get anymore disjointed and confusing. Plus tomorrow’s the first day of young company, which should prove interesting enough. Idk.
Pius had Community Day today. It’s a half-ish day without classes where everyone plays games, goes to mass, bonds with their TACs (homerooms for those of you not fluent in Catholic School) and go to a town hall meeting. In this town hall meeting we spend a solid hour-and-something discussing the needs of the poor abused freshmen who get booed periodically during events such as the upcoming pep rally. How umm…traumatic for them? Don’t get me wrong. I personally don’t boo freshmen. I just don’t think it’s necessary. I know some rather cool freshmen and at Greendale the treatment of freshmen was a bit worse, which didn’t sit well with me. So I don’t boo and never have. However, I don’t make a big deal out of it or accuse other people of committing a massive social injustice because they disagree with me. Above all, I don’t feel the need to spend a sizable chunk of my day crammed into St. Vincent Palatti’s (how the hell do you spell it?) church “dealing” with the “issue.”
There were other actually issues touched upon, such as our oh so healthy union food, in particular that controversial new slushy machine. Wow. Life changing, huh?
None of this would be bothering me so much if there weren’t lots of things that Pius should be talking about as a community. How about the way we sit in the union. Freshmen over there. Senior boys back there. Latinos in one corner. Black kids in the other. Head to the very back you anime nerd, you. And you, frosh, what do you think you’re doing in that corner by the juniors?
Correct me but isn’t self segregation a little more important than freshman getting booed a totally of, what…three times a year.
And while we’re discussing our dear old union, why stop with just healthier options? Why not add some healthy vegan options? There’s a foreign concept, huh? But let’s be honest here, how many self-respecting vegans feel good about financially fueling the massive corporate slop machine that is Sodexho. The inflated Sodexho prices are just too ridiculous for me to comment on.
There was one very good point that was briefly mentioned toward the end of the town hall meeting. It’s an issue I’ve talked with Nikki about on a few occasions. Why do you need to play a sport in order to make it onto homecoming court? What about the countless students who do forum or campus ministry or art club or do dance shows or even (here’s a shocker) plays? It’s not like Pius is a school that’s sports focused. I mean, we some great sports teams, but we also have a dance program that’s probably second only to Arts. Our theatre department is awesome, as is our choir department. I mean, madrigal?!? Our band department is definitely worth noting. Plus we’ve won all sorts of visual arts awards. Shouldn’t that count for just as much as athletics?
Don’t take this rant the wrong way. I love Pius. I really really love it. There’s no school I’d rather be at. But it still has flaws that go way beyond an occasional boo and sometimes I wonder what we really do about them.
I feel like writeing a petition or something about the whole homecomeing thing. I don’t’ know…
I’m gonna go to bed before my thoughts get anymore disjointed and confusing. Plus tomorrow’s the first day of young company, which should prove interesting enough. Idk.