Well St. Thomas is at it again and the administration wants sports on campus. Now before you think that I am going to completely tear this subject apart let’s look and see how successful our current sporting endeavors are going this year. First things first our own Lady Celt Volleyball, let’s see, they won some, they lost some but most importantly they brought in a whole whopping 15 fans and their parents and that was with the hot dogs. Not saying that Volleyball isn’t a head turner but at-least they have the drive and determination to have a full team unlike the heroes of our beloved Rugby team.
For those who aren’t in the know our rugby had to forfeit the majority of their games due to a lack of interest of young men who want to hurl themselves against other men. Now rumor has it that they will be back bigger and stronger than last year but that all really depends on how well they train in our wonderful gym but if they use each-other as dead-weight to bench the sky is the limit. Now not that I have come by this information first hand but I heard our intramural Baseball team actually did quite well but who would really know because most of their information seems to come by word of mouth anyway.
It seems strange that the University would head down this path once again, the last time they did it they managed to do two things. One they merely bankrupted the University and secondly they produced the Undertaker from the ever-popular WWE or is it WWF, don’t know, don’t care. But now they seem to be adding a bit of pzazz to it all, we the student body get to choose our Mascot and if you have seen what I have seen you would be asking yourself, “how hard is it again to transfer out of here?” From the Knight in shinning armor to the cliche of the four-leaf clover, and yes a four-leaf clover as a Mascot is something really fierce, I know; we the students get to decide. I say we leave our sports where they are Clubs and start funneling the money to departments that need it and not going out and soliciting our donors for a $100,000.00 wooden gym floor. If our students wanted to go to a college where sports not academics reigned supreme we would have gone to Notre Dame and cheered for the day when they get to “Beat Army!”
Let’s go win one for the Gipper!
~Madison
