The Glass Menagerie

I decided to do the creative option for the rough drafts. I had no idea how it was going to turn out because I have not spent much time around plays. And, for me to portray a character in a play was another level for me. My group consisted of athletes, who I know some and feel a little comfortable around because if I'm going to make a fool of myself then I might as well do around people I like. One I got rid of the last butterflies floating around in my stomach. I felt a relief while shooting the video and I really tried to get into my character,"JIm". I thought we all did a good job, obviously we wanted to approach a more comical atmosphere. I have to give credit and thank my group for all of their contributions.

weather

I know this can seem, like a B.S. blog post, however I think I can make this somewhat interesting since I am very frustrated with the weather. I find it very hard to believe that it can rain this much in the fall. Most people would not believe me if I told them that I witnessed 14 straight days of rain. I left the city twice during that fortnight, and it felt that the rain was personally following me. Mother Nature might have a grudge against me at the moment, because I'm losing it dealing with all the rain at the moment. I just can't take it anymore, can I please have one week of sunshine please.

Legislation

I am a Political Science major, which means much of my schooling has to deal with politics. Ultimately, I want to go to Law School and start a career as a lawyer. I currently hold a position on "S.A.A.C.", which stands for Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Basically we talk about on how we can provide for the athletes of our school and the conference better. A few days ago we had to go over what seemed like a bible size packet dealing with legislation for all the different sports. It could have been the longest two hours of my life, because we go over new rules each year and whatever we vote on never returns in our favor. Now it has become a pointless waste of time for the coaches and athletes. Hopefully my future in politics will not be as pointless.

Street Car Named Desire

I recently went to the Hatiloo theater were I watched a performance for the play "A Street Car named Desire". It was interesting to say the least, I thought the concept of how they viewed the play and the path they chose to perform it was good. However, at times I felt untouched by the actors as if what they were saying was not quite reaching me. It seemed that I was not apart of the audience that they were trying to reach, which is fine because they had a full house with few people around my age. I just could not get rid of the feeling that there should be some deep connection with myself and the actors on stage. After it was all said and done, I basically left the play disappointed. It had nothing to do with the acting, but more with who they were directing there passion to if that makes any sense.

The City.

The other night i was watching television and flipping through the channels when I came across the mayoral debate. I decided to tune in and watch and see what each candidate has to offer for the city. When I continued to watch, I noticed that the candidates went away for talking about the real issues and spent more time talking about the bad things about each other. That is what I think politics have come to, they are all about who can dirty up the other persons image. Which I think is the worse because they forget to think how we feel, and what we want for the city. The people should not vote for the person with the cleanest record. They should believe in the person that can get the most done.

Compliance

In athletic sports, athletes have to deal with the compliance department that determines the wrongs and rights for athletes. However, at this university they only tell us about the wrongs that we are doing. They make it hard to hard to be an athlete in school and one trying to enter the school. I do not think it is like this at every university, but it is crap here. Everyday, they tell my sport another thing that we cannot do because their scared of the NCAA after all the Basketball problems. Well, guess what we are not the basketball team and we should not be punished because of their mistakes. They should treat every sport differently in order to better provide for each individual sport.

Student-athletes

At the University of Memphis, we are big on sports and have many athletes. Now some sports provide revenue for the university, those being basketball and football. There are 16 other sports that do not provide any revenue for the school, so their expenses are split from the school budget. Woman's sports receive more benefit because of Title IX, and the male sports struggle to barely break-even. What I'm trying to get at is why are those sports that bring back so much for the university are not compensated in some way. I think they should be congratulated for doing so much for the campus and they should stand above the rest.