BY ZARI DEMESME // Hood College’s small campus has a lot of events that go on throughout the entire school year. The “D” in hood stands for democracy, but a survey says that to some stu-dents, it doesn’t “feel” like a democracy because “its feels as though we can’t get any-thing we ask for,” said a sophomore. According to some of the current seniors who would like to remain nameless at this time, they said during their freshman year there was a dance/party almost every month and that they were sad to see things like that slowly, but surely stop happening.

Although Hood does have plenty of monthly events, I have heard all around cam-pus that students want more dances or night time events on the weekends because they get bored. Maya Jacksona junior, said that dances every month seems like a lot, but it would be fun for the students and would help relive some stress. She also said that instead of just having Whitaker Wednesdays, have like Whitaker Weekends (meaning wednesday through friday). Angela Moore ,also a junior, said maybe having a suggestion box for the Campus Activities Board might help with fun ways to keep students busy on the weekends. She also said, “I appreciate the movie nights that CAB hosts on the weekends. They are fun nights where my friends and I can just have like a girls night out without leaving the campus and spending money.”

More students had suggestions for events on campus and they came to a consensus of having a suggestion box for CAB so that the students can voice their opinion for ac-tivities on the weekends. Having a lot to say and not knowing who to approach about it without getting shut down is hard. Don Miller, who is in charge of CAB, said that “hav-ing suggestion boxes never work successfully.” But he would like to hear suggestions face to face to talk about them so that the suggester can fully explain their vision. But before the most effective way to get as far as having a one on one with Don you must first send him an email in order to set up a time to meet; sometimes he’s a little hard to get a hold of if there are currently a lot of campus activities currently going on or approaching.

It may seem as though we as student don’t have any type of input when it comes to campus activities, but we do have some say when it comes to music selections and the choice of movies that are to be played friday and saturday nights. If there isn’t enough student input for a change, then nothing that is being suggested will be considered for the future events. As the saying goes: “If you didn’t get up and go vote in the election do not b*tch and moan how about how much you dislike your congressman because you could have made a difference but you didn’t”