“The university was recently given the national award of Campus of the Year. Some students might wonder what the university could possibly have done to get this award. After all, on the weekends there are relatively few students on campus. The university is almost literally a ghost town.”
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The university was recently given the national award of Campus of the Year. Some students might wonder what the university could possibly have done to get this award.

After all, on the weekends there are relatively few students on campus. The university is almost literally a ghost town.

The award acknowledges the university’s Residence Hall Program Board and the Zips Programming Network for their wide variety of campus planning and activities.

Both programs do more than is recognized to organize events on campus.

ZPN promotes activities such as Homecoming, Family Weekend, Adult and Commuter Programs, Greek Events and co-sponsorships with other organizations.

RHBP promotes such activities as Welcome Weekend, the Emerging Leaders program, Hall Fest, Sibs Weekend, Residence Life Cinema, as well as the 9:09 p.m. Entertainment Series.

Both organizations support the Rock the Roo Lunchtime Concert Series, Roo Talk Speaker Series and Rock the Roo After Dark Stage Door Series at E.J. Thomas Hall, and the 7:17 p.m. Coffeehouse Series.

While the campus may have been named Campus of the Year, that doesn’t mean that the university should leave things as they are. There are many things that could be done to make the university campus better still.

More events could be organized to include the entire student population or the university as a whole.

More green spaces and the overall environment of campus would probably make the campus a little better too.

Coming up at the end of this month, another event on campus will be SpringFest. More events like this would be beneficial to campus and make the campus better.

This is fourth time UA has received the Campus of the Year award. It has previously won the award in 2006, 2003 and 2000.

Such awards are probably more than enough to justify tuition increases and a boost to President Proenza’s salary, right?

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