Angelica Ross is a transgender woman. Before the she transitioned, she enlisted into the Navy. She was being harassed by her fellow service men and coerced into saying that she was gay. Six months after enlisting she was discharged under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. She is now a LBGT activist. (Angelica Ross n.d.)
In the last year there has been a lot of talk about LBGT people in the military. In this article I will be explaining past and current policies involving LGBT people in the military.
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
In an article by Sarah Pruitt (2018), Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) was signed into law under the Clinton Administration in 1994. There was already a ban on LBGT people prior to DADT, but this was made to be a compromise for people who did and didn’t want LGBT people in the military. This policy would allow LGBT people to serve, but they would have to stay in the closet. Service members weren’t supposed to ask, but if asked they weren’t obligated to answer.
The Repeal
In Pruitt’s article, President Obama said he was going get rid of DADT during his campaign in 2008. In 2010 the Pentagon surveyed service members on whether the repeal of DADT would have an impact. Sarah Pruitt said that 70% of service members would have a “mixed, positive, or no impact”. DADT was repealed on September 20, 2011, and the ban in homosexuality in the military was lifted.
Trump
According to the Human Rights Campaign, President Trump announced in 2017 that the military will no longer accept transgender people in a series of tweets. Many states and other government officials were against it. In January 2019 the supreme court voted in favor for the ban (5-4). On April 12, 2019 the ban went into place. The Department of Defense (DoD) says the is not a ban on transgender people, but a ban on gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is a difference between a person’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender, also significant distress or problems functioning.
Survey
I wanted to see what the general public knew about this topic, so I decided to take a survey of my Instagram followers to see how much they know about this topic. I had three questions.
To your knowledge are transgender people allowed in the military?
To your knowledge did Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (A policy made by the Clinton Administration for LGBT people in the military) help or hinder LGBT people?
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was repealed by the Obama Administration in 2011. Did this help or hinder LGBT people?
40 people took the survey.
On the first question 74% of people said that transgender people aren’t allowed in the military, and 26% of people said that transgender people are allowed in the military.
On the second question 82% of people said that DADT hindered LGBT people, and 18% send the DADT helped LGBT people.
On the third question 23% of people said the repeal of DADT hindered LGBT people and 77% said it helped LGBT people.
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Today
Now, what if you identify as transgender and want to join the military? According to the DoD, this new policy is to enhance readiness. You can join the military as your biological sex if you aren’t diagnosed with gender dysphoria. If you’re diagnosed with gender dysphoria you are disqualified from joining, unless you are stable for 36 months and join as your biological sex. If you have gone through any medical transition you’re disqualified from military service.
These policies have changed about in the past 30 year, and they will probably continue to change in the future. There are many opinions on LBGT people in the military, but it is important to be informed without bias. I hope this article was beneficial.
As a college student one learns a lot about their peers. It is not always intentional, but you can pick up easily on how others view the world based on prompts they say during class discussions, or even just overhearing conversations while eating in the cafeteria. People always have more to say in an environment without pressure. In this natural environment I have learned many different opinions, but one thing that stood out to me was the way in which fellow students would discuss politics. With the 2020 presidential election quickly approaching everyone has different views, but shockingly not everyone has the same facts or information. For this paper, I wanted to give basic information on important aspects of the election to fuel politically informed conversations. I surveyed to see just how much information the students around me know about the 2020 election.
When discussing politics, it is important to know the universal facts, so let’s start with the basics. Currently in the 2020 presidential election process, we are in the primary stage. There are two different primary election types. First, is a voting primary, in which citizens go into a booth and vote on a written ballot to narrow down all of the possible candidates for the presidential election. Once this process is done there should only be two candidates from each party remaining, then the two final candidates fight for the nomination to be the presidential candidate of their party, which gets decided at the party conventions. The party convention is a gathering of party leaders, where they decide who the final candidate will be for each party. Second, is a caucus. Caucus’ include gathering into a room for voters to be counted rather than voting in a booth, this process also helps to narrow down candidates for the nomination similar to the voting primary. The point of these primaries is for candidates to gain support from voters and delegates to gain the party nominations. Delegates are free agents appointed at the state or local level, their job is to vote for candidates in representation of the populous in the corresponding states. The number of delegates is based on the number of population per state. In the democratic party there are also superdelegates. “Superdelegates are simply ‘unpledged voters.’ Their vote represents their own choice, rather than the wishes of the voters, and these unpledged delegates can pledge their votes as they see fit.” (Chandler “What Are Superdelegates?” 9 March 2020).
Primary elections are held in all 50 states, but this wasn’t always the case. As recently as 1968 only 13 states held public primaries, and the rest of the delegates voted at the party convention. Essentially having people in places of power choose their equals, to stay in places of power. Today, the primary voting system is more inclusive to the public’s opinions. The whole purpose of the primaries now is to gather the public’s decided nominees to distribute pledged delegates accordingly. Voting primaries have been the increasingly more popular way of voting rather than the older version which would be caucusing. Although some states do still caucus, majority have moved to primary voting ballots because it is less time consuming and an easier voting process. With more accurate results from ballots it is a faster system to calculate the winners and to distribute delegates, which is why it is the favored system between caucus’ and primaries.
Caucus. A word we hear about every 4 years, but may not understand and may think we are too old to ask what it is. If you haven’t asked yet it can’t be too important right? Caucus’ are a complex voting system, so I’m going to break down the process. Instead of voters voting in a booth, they gather in a big room and supporters for each candidate get to make their case on why they think their candidate is best. From there, voters gather into groups based on which candidate they support, each group needs a certain percent of the voters participating in the caucus so they try and convince their neighbors to join their group. If a group does not have a high enough percent of voters then the group disbands and voters join other groups, until there are large majority groups. From there the decision of what number of delegates goes to each candidate gets mathematical and more complicated. Essentially, delegates get distributed throughout each voting precinct, and then those delegates get pledged based on what percent of voters in the precinct want a certain candidate. See, I told you it was complicated!
With delegates playing such an important role in the primary process, it is necessary to understand how they work. Each state gets a number of delegates equal to the number of representatives they have in congress. Which breaks down to be one delegate per house of representatives member, and two senators. These delegates “pledge” to vote for a specific candidate during the voting process, based on the popular vote. The break down of this is best explained by the National Archives, “All States, except for Maine and Nebraska have a winner-take-all policy where the State looks only at the overall winner of the state-wide popular vote. Maine and Nebraska, however, appoint individual electors based on the winner of the popular vote for each Congressional district and then 2 electors based on the winner of the overall state-wide popular vote. ” For a candidate to win the party nomination they need to win 270 delegates, which is the majority vote of the total 538.
The general election is in which citizens vote for one presidential candidate from the party of their choice. Each party gets to elect one candidate to be put on the ballot, or citizens can fill in their own candidate in hopes to out vote the parties and win the majority popular vote. On general election day the Electoral College also votes on who they think should be President. The electoral college is a group of representatives, who act in place of their citizens. The electoral college has a total of 538 representatives. Each state has as many votes in the electoral college as they do in congress, one for each member in the house of representatives and two senators. So with the electoral college in place does the popular vote matter? Yes, because the electoral college is there to vote on a governmental level in favor of their citizens. The electors should vote in such a way that shows how the citizens of their state has voted, though it is possible for a candidate to win the popular vote but not the electoral vote, as we saw in the 2016 election.
With all of this general information in my mind, I wanted to find out how much my fellow students knew about the general election. In March of 2020, I conducted an online survey of 18 of my fellow University of Wisconsin-Stout students to find the answer. I asked a series of multiple choice questions and short answer questions to evaluate what sections of the presidential election process they felt comfortable with, and what sequences they wanted to gain more knowledge on. My survey also included opinion based questions on what students were likely to base votes for each candidate on, to find out what issues and beliefs were most important among students when voting.
I asked students to choose one or more factors related to issues or policies that impact their decision of which candidate to vote for. The number one factor that students said would impact their voting choices was; gun rights. With health care and environmental policies not far behind (figure 1). I also asked students to pick one or more topics surrounding personal beliefs or opinions that they would prioritize when voting. The issue of abortion and reproductive rights was the topic students felt they would most likely influence their vote (figure 2). The answers to these questions show that students are taking the time to get educated on policies, so that they can successfully make their own choices when voting in the election.
Figure 1, Policies that impact voters.Figure 2, Personal beliefs that impact votes.
The next question in my survey was; ” Do you think the way you vote impacts the results of the 2020 presidential election?” 16 out of 18 students responded that they either “agree” or “strongly agree” with that question. I asked this because there is the misconception that the way citizens, especially young people, vote has no effect on the election. I was excited to analyze those positive results that show students know just how powerful their vote truly is. Because, even though the final vote is not up to the citizens, popular vote does influence how delegates get distributed. In the modern age, many young voters don’t have faith in our political system and are opting not to vote in elections. When in fact, no matter which party you choose to vote for you are helping parties with delegate distribution, and affecting the way party leaders choose nominees at the convention. It is very important to vote. Voting shows which policies and issues are of public interest in our nation, so people in places of power can make legislation based on the opinions of citizens.
In conclusion, from the primaries, to delegates, to the general election, voting is a complicated process that many may not understand. The whole purpose of the primaries is to get a understanding of the popular vote so the parties can evenly distribute delegates, and give the nomination to one candidate from each party. This leads to voting in the general election for a new President of the United States. I surveyed students to find out how much knowledge they had about the election, and which topics were most interesting to them. With this article my goal was to inform the pubic on the basic systems of the election, and to show the important impact that your vote has on the presidential election.
Imagine sitting down binge watching your favorite show on Netflix only for it to start buffering. This is exactly what could happen if your Internet Service Provider (ISP) decided you were using too much bandwidth using Netflix. Net neutrality is needed in this instance to keep customers from getting their internet throttled. Under no net neutrality your internet service provider would be legally allowed to slow your internet down if they thought you were using too much bandwidth. According to nytimes.com On June 11th 2018 Net Neutrality was repealed and internet consumers are no longer protected.
Figure 1, Cossler, Jim. “Rough Ride Ahead with End of Net Neutrality.” Business Journal Daily, 29 June 2018, businessjournaldaily.com/rough-ride-ahead-with-end-of-net-neutrality/.
What is Net Neutrality? According to publicknowledge.org “ Net neutrality is the principle that individuals should be free to access all content and applications equally, regardless of the source, without Internet Service Providers discriminating against specific online services or websites.” As of June 11th 2018, Net neutrality was repealed by the Federal Communications Commission. In turn, it raised internet service providers annual incomes by 50 billion. With Net Neutrality being repealed, internet service providers have an option of throttling your internet, charging you more for sites you access and blocking site access entirely. Internet service provider companies love to tell their customers they won’t throttle or try to mess with your internet access. Yet they don’t support net neutrality and want to have the ability to legally tinker with your internet service as mentioned above. Individual states have started to take a stance with California passing the “California Internet Consumer Protection and net neutrality act of 2018” The law was specifically aimed at saving net neutrality for residents of California. 34 other states have introduced some kind of net neutrality legislation to protect the citizens of their state from extra fees and other implications that come along with no net neutrality.
Other examples of what might eventually happen without net neutrality would be having to pay for access to individual websites and popular apps as shown in figure two. Imagine having to pay just to access Facebook to see some family photos, and on top of that paying to upload pictures and videos. According to freepress.net ISPs would also be able to block political content online for example. You can easily say that Net Neutrality is equivalent to freedom of speech but for the internet.
We conducted a survey and got people ages 18 to 20 to respond. 100% of survey participants use the internet daily but only 60% thought they would be personally affected if net neutrality is gone. The longer everyone lives without it the more likely it will be that things will change and the ISPs will start playing in their own favor. 16.7% Don’t know if they support net neutrality, and this is why we need to educate people on what net neutrality is and how it affects everyone.
All in all, if you use the internet at all or care about not having to pay extra to use internet then net neutrality applies to you. It is in everyone’s best interest to vote for it and apply it again. Everyone’s daily lives could be changed by it. No more binge watching Netflix, YouTube or downloading movies. It keeps everyone on an even playing field no matter what you do for work or what you do in your free time. To fight this everyone has to contact their local lawmakers and urge them to bring back net neutrality. Without net neutrality everyone’s daily lives will eventually change. Internet service providers will eventually become more power hungry and decide to charge you more, block sites, and not treat you as fairly with the net neutrality act in place..
A lack of competitiveness, little-to-no effort, and absolutely zero defense being played are a few of many reasons on why a drastic change needed to take place. The NBA All-Star Game was first brought about in 1951 with the idea to display the best talent in the league going up against one another. The beginning years of this tradition proved to be a success. However, as the years went by this was no longer true. This can be directly seen in the total points scored in the game in the first 10 (1951-60) and the most recent 10 (2010-19) games played. In the first 10 years the two teams combined for a total of 206.8 points per game (ppg), while in the most recent 10 games played they combined for a whopping 348.2 ppg. This differential in points scored represents the lack of effort and will to win the game, and the NBA needed to put an end to it.
Before we look at the new changes the NBA implemented into the All-Star Game, we must first take a deep look into all of the problems that both the players and us as an audience had with the All-Star Game. A universal problem the players faced was the fact that they really had no incentive to play, and many felt that risking an injury was not worth the reward of winning the exhibition game. With no incentives, comes not trying or caring to win the game, and this led to a poor display of basketball for many years, while really the initial goal of the formation of this NBA All-Star Game was to showcase the best basketball in the world. This lack of desire to win translated directly to the games not being competitive and neither side taking pride in having bragging rights for winning the game for that year. This resulted in almost no defense being played throughout the course of the game, which undoubtedly led to a 48 minutes dunk and 40-foot shot contest. After many years of these recurring problems, the NBA finally made the decision to try to put an end to them by changing the format of the All-Star Game and giving basketball fans a game they will enjoy once again.
New NBA All-Star Game Format:
Incentive: When a team wins a quarter and/or the game, the NBA will donate a specified amount of money to a community-based organization of the team captain’s choice.
For the first three quarters of the game, the score will reset at 0-0. The teams are competing to win each quarter because the winner of each quarter will get $100,000 donated to the organization they chose ($300,000 total).
For the fourth quarter, the points scored from the previous three quarters will be added up for each team, and then 24 points will be added to the team with the highest score through three quarters. Whatever that total is, is the target score. When a team reaches the target score they win the game. The fourth quarter is not timed and has an Elam Ending. The 24 points is in honor of the late Kobe Bryant. Whomever reaches the target score first gets an additional $200,000 donated to the community-based organization that they chose.
New NBA All-Star Game Format (NBA)
This new format to the NBA All-Star Game was aimed at raising the stakes of the game, as well as increase the intensity of the competition. The donations to community-based organizations was used to try to achieve both of these, while the format in itself, especially the Elam Ending, was designed to bring out the competitive nature in these superstar athletes. Given the circumstances of the death of Kobe Bryant and how he approached his life as an athlete, this also gave an inner desire to each and every player to perform well during the All-Star Game.
Survey
As a way to determine whether or not the new format of the NBA All-Star Game made a difference to the audience’s appeal of the game, I created a short 13 question survey. When conducting the survey, I focused on asked people who I knew either played or enjoy watching basketball. Had I not done this, I would have likely surveyed some people who completely don’t care or don’t know about the topic. It took me from the 24th to the 28th of February to gather all of the data that I needed, and I did this by giving an in-person, paper survey to 20 people. I carried out this survey to look into the opinions of basketball fans on the new format of the NBA All-Star Game, whether or not they thought it originally needed change, and if it still needs change.
Survey Findings
The new NBA All-Star Game format was preferred by 20 out of 20 people.
When asked what the number one thing they would change about the new format.
11-The game cannot end on a free throw
7-No changes
2- Add a four-point shot
The average score between one and five, 1 being not at all and 5 being very, when asked how exciting the old format was and how exciting the new format was.
Old format = 1.6 out of 5
New format = 4.6 out of 5
Video of the end of the 2020 NBA All-Star Game (YouTube)
Conclusion
Based on my findings, as well as data from other sources, the NBA took a big leap forward in regard to its All-Star Game. Television ratings for the NBA All-Star Game on TNT showed and 8% increase from the year before with an average of 7.3 million viewers. The Elam Ending fourth quarter is when the ratings reached their highest point with an average of 8 million viewers tuned in. My survey findings revealed that the average basketball fan enjoyed the new format more than the old and is now more likely to watch the All-Star Game in upcoming years than they were in the past. However, these fans are not completely satisfied, and would like to see minor changes to the rules in the future.
So now that we’ve gone to all of the pizza places in Menomonie, lets figure out which is the best place. Since we did two different types of reviews, we will have the best pizza place for chains and local restaurants.
Lets talk about the local restaurants first.
Lucette’s is by far the best quality out of all of restaurants we went to. The only thing is its $10 for a medium pizza that feeds one to two people, compared to Ted’s, where a little more than $10 can feed 4 people. So if you want to get pizza with a bunch of friends and want the cheaper option, Ted’s wins there. But if you want high quality pizza for you and a friend or have a special occasion, Lucette’s wins there. Both places are equally family friendly, but I would say Ted’s is a better option for going with family just because the amount of food you get is way more than Lucette’s.
So to have an official winner, I’m going to say Lucettes, because the quality to cost ratio is very high, and the atmosphere is great if you go with people, especially if you’re of age and can buy something on tap.
Now for the chains, this will be a bit more hard to dermine.
To make this a bit easier to decide, I’ll break it into two parts, the walk-able restaurants, and the non-walkable. So lets compare Toppers to Domino’s.
Toppers beats Domino’s in quality. But, Domino’s beats Toppers in cost. When we had Toppers delivered to us, they estimated 40 minutes, and ended up being 15 minutes late. For Domino’s, there average delivery time is about 30 minutes and no later. So for fast pizza, Domino’s is the best. For quality to cost ratio, Domino’s also wins because the cost of a large pizza is about $8, while at Toppers its $18 for a large specialty pizza. Even though Toppers is higher quality, its much more worth it to get a pretty good pizza for less than $10, rather than a great pizza for almost $20.
For walking distance, I think Domino’s trumps Toppers just because its a better cost for a pretty good pizza, compared to an expensive pizza. It’s also pretty close to campus, which is convenient for students.
Okay, now to determine the best place that isnt walking distance.
I’m just going to start out and say that Little Caesars is not the greatest quality. Its great if you want really cheap pizza that is better than the commons. It’s a great place if you need to get a lot of pizza for a party or a club. For Papa Murphy’s, its really good pizza, but its pretty expensive. And in my opinion, it just isn’t worth it for the price. Pizza Hut is right in the middle. $10 for a large pizza is a really good deal for college students, especially if you go there as a group. You could bring a group of 6 people and have each person pay 5 bucks and get a lot of food. And the quality is very good for its price.
So for the best non-walkable pizza place, I would have to say its Pizza Hut.
So now its between Domino’s and Pizza Hut for chains.
Both of them are really close to the same price, and very close to the same quality for the price. The only thing that really differs them is that Pizza Hut is far away, and Domino’s is close. So i’m going to say for the average college student, who has to live on campus, Domino’s is the better choice.
In conclusion, the best local restaurant is Lucette’s. They have really really great pizza and some interesting combinations that are great. Its a great place to go with one or two of your friends, and if you’re of age, a great place to have a drink. Domino’s is a great place if you want pizza fast, and cheap, at a decent quality. With their fast delivery, even if you live off campus you can get cheap pizza delivered.
We decided to review 5 pizza chains in Menomonie. They consist of Domino’s, Pizza Hut, Little Caesars, Papa Murphy’s, and Toppers. They all do pizza very differently and we tried our best to grade them fairly.
Lets start with Domino’s Pizza,
Domino’s has been on the rise ever since their recession in 2008 and are now number one in pizza sales at $3.2 billion internationally. So, we wanted to see if they hold up to their name. Spoiler alert, yeah of course they did. Domino’s is cheap and half decent. Biggest problem for me was how greasy and dirty the pizza gets, and that its better delivered or carried out. Domino’s is also walking distance from campus, so it’s very convenient for the number of students without cars. Spencer and I walked over and split a large 3 topping pizza with pepperoni, green peppers, and sausage for $7.99 plus tax.
The crust in my opinion felt too wet, but still had that garlic and buttery taste 7/10. The sauce was also a 7 because it tasted alright but mostly went unnoticed. The cheese was also a 8 but it doesn’t really stand out. The toppings were a 9 because they where crunchy and flavorful. The service was an 8 and the atmosphere was a 8. Not really meant to eat inside but had tables and plates. The affordability was a 10 because its fast food pizza.
Pizza Hut Is known for fast pizza and fast delivery. Not so much for dinning in. My fellow taste testers and I found Pizza Hut very pleasing. They sat us down, grabbed us water and took our order efficiently. I was taken back by how good the service was. Ten minutes later, our pizza was served on a ceramic peel, or you could call it a tray or paddle. We got a large 3 topping pizza for $9.99 with bacon, pepperoni, and greed peppers. For the people who like to wipe off extra grease and sauce, fear not, Pizza Huts ratio of cheese, sauce and toppings wasn’t off-putting at all.
The crust was a 9/10 in my opinion. It was somewhat floppy, had a good thickness for hand tossed, and a satisfying crunchy at the end. The sauce was an 8 because it wasn’t drenched and tasted alright. The cheese and toppings were both a 9 because the cheese was stringy and the toppings were crunchy. The service and atmosphere where an 9/10. Everything was nice, clean, and comfortable. The waitress took our order efficiently and took well care of us. The affordability was 7 because the 3 topping deal.
I’m gonna say right off the bat that Little Caesars was not a favorite. The pizza is very cheap and very average. It’s like the sayings goes, “You get what you paid for” and “You are what you eat.” You can probably guess what I mean, the pizza sparks minimum joy. Neither of these things are a great way to describe your product. Some good things are how secure your pizza is. You got to log into your email to scan a bar code to free your pizza from the hot case. Other nice things about this chain would be that it could feed large hungry crowds for relatively cheap. Spencer and I bought large pizza split with pineapple and sausage on one half and pepperoni and green pepper on the other for $8.18. Other pizzas were large one or two toppings for $6. So, in the end it’s a good deal for two people to split.
The crust was a 5, its just there to hold everything. The sauce had alright taste, plentiful in some spots. The cheese was a 6, not very flavorful. The toppings was a 7, every other restaurant did them better in every way. The service was nice though, minimum communication. Atmosphere was an 8 because it just feels stuffy and claustrophobic. The price was a 9, you get what you pay for and was in line with Domino’s.
Papa Murphy’s was an interesting one, the place is completely take ‘n’ bake. The store was clean and had that fresh pizza ingredients smell. Papa Murphy’s is defiantly up there with the bests. Again, Spencer and I ordered a medium pepperoni and green pepper pizza. There’re certain days to order and their website has multiple deals. They have Tuesday specials and other coupon opportunities. Overall I’d say that Papa Murphy’s is the best pizza when having a casual family friends’ dinner or watching a football game with your grandpa.
The crust was thick with a good crunch and the cheese was stringy with flavor 9/10. The sauce and topping tasted great but almost too much in amount, still an 8 and 9. The total was a little unsettling at $12.67, the affordability was 5. The atmosphere was 9 because the cleanliness and smell.
I’ve never been to Toppers before this, and I can say for sure that it was worth it. For some reason I thought it was a Menomonie classic, but there are 65 stores in 12 states. Other cool things that this chain really does well with accommodating late-night business by being open till 3:00 am, and they do all three delivery methods. They have 10+ special pizzas, and because this was our last review, Spencer and I ordered a Nacho pizza. This pizza was very impressive. It had nacho cheese sauce, salsa, mozzarella, cheddar, ground beef, green onions, jalapenos, tortilla chips and tomatoes. We opted out of the black olives and the pizza was fine without it. Overall it was a little spicy and a little pricey. So next time you have family visit, have them take you out to eat at toppers.
The price for that large hand tossed was $17.99 plus tip and delivery charge. Not so college friendly now, 4/10 affordability. Another downside was the 15-minute late delivery. I’m hoping this was a fluke or something because I really want to order it again and not skip class waiting, 5/10 service. Otherwise the crust had no flop and you could taste every ingredient. It really felt like a master piece with the crunchy and soft toppings. Cheese and toppings where a 9/10 and the crust was 8. The nacho sauce was a 8 because the I almost didn’t notice it in some spots. The atmosphere was an 8 because its not completely made for dine in.
Teds pizza has been in Menominie since 1970. The gounakis family moved to the United States in 1967 from Katerini Greece. George Gounaikis bought Teds pizza in 1977 and Jim, his brother, bought it from his father in 1986. It was during these years that Jim and his brother Phil learned all there is to know about running a restaurant. Jim carries on the family tradition from his father Ted, who was allergic to the flour and could no longer work, with special recipes for the pizza dough, sauce, and spaghetti. The restaurant even offers a bit of Greek options with their Gyro sandwiches.
So now that we know a little bit about Ted’s history, lets get to the review.
When you first walk into Ted’s, you can see the open kitchen, employees making toppings and tossing dough. The atmosphere of the restaurant was very chill, and the decorations really made it feel like a family restaurant. It our first time to Ted’s, we didn’t really know what was going on or how to order. Our server was very kind and helped us get to know the deals and other things. We ordered some bread sticks to start and a pizza with sausage and bacon on one half, and pepperoni and green peppers on the other. The bread sticks came out almost instantly. They were good, but for 6 dollars they weren’t really worth it, considering they were about half the size of a normal bread stick. We went on a Friday night at 7 pm, and the store was moderately busy. However, they were taking a lot delivery orders, so that did delay us getting our food. When we got our pizza, the first thing that I thought was it looked very different compared to your basic pizzas you would get from the store or another restaurant.
It was an XL thin crust pizza (16 inches) cut into squares. When we first bit into it we noticed that crust was really thin, but not too thin. And it was a bit crunchy. The sauce was pretty good, and the toppings were great. One thing we noticed is that it was hard to see and taste the pepperoni. And when you would bit into it, sometimes all the cheese and toppings would pull off. Personally that’s a bit annoying, so that was one thing I didn’t like about the pizza. Ted’s is a great place to go with a group of friends or your family. Its got a great family friendly atmosphere, and the pizza splits well between people. We had 4 people total when we went there, and with one XL pizza we all left stuffed. Its also great for multiple people because its a bit more on the expensive side, $18 after the $3 off discount they have on Friday, so everyone can pitch in to cover the cost. Here is what we rated Ted’s on our rubric
We rated crust an 8 because its decent crunch and not floppy. Sauce was an 8 because it was home-made and not drenched. Cheese was an 8 because it was stringy and stretchy. Toppings were an 8 because there was a lot of them and they were flavorful. Service a 9 because our server was really kind to us for the first time. Affordability an 8 because its not the cheapest if you don’t go on a Friday night, and it would be a bit more expensive to go as one or two people. Atmosphere an 8 because its really chill and is really family friendly.
Next lets move on to Lucettes,
Lucette’s is a brewing company that started in 2008 in Menomine Wisconsin. It took them 2 years to pour their first pint, and they started making kegs before they made pints. As they kept going in their business, they decided to open the Wood-fire Eatery, a place where you can enjoy a pint and a slice.
When we walked into Lucette’s, we weren’t sure if it was a fancier place or your typical family restaurant. When you walk in through the door, you can see the bar, kitchen, brewing tanks, and the wood fired oven. Behind the tables is an open area where they do their brewing. We sat down and our very nice waiter got us our drinks and ordered our food.
So Luke and I ordered the “Sweet honey love” which is your basic pepperoni pizza, except it had a bit of honey drizzled on it. When you look at this pizza, you think it looks a bit different from your typical pizzas. When you pick it up, you notice its very floppy, so folding your pizza here is a good idea. When you take your first bite, you can instantly notice the wood fired taste, the smokey taste. The cheese on it wasn’t like your typical pizza either, it was little circles of mozzarella hand cut and place strategically around the pizza, but it wasn’t covering the entire pizza. Their sauce was also homemade, which was very noticeable. One thing to note about Lucette’s, is that it’s a bit far from campus, so unless you have a car it wouldn’t be easy to get there. This is not a place to go if you like leftover pizza and leaving stuffed. One pizza can feed one or two people. Its more of a casual dinner or lunch type of place. When we got the bill, we expected the cost to be high because of the quality, but it was only $10. Lucette’s is a great place to go if you want great pizza, but not a lot of pizza. You would also enjoy your time more and get more value out of going if you were of drinking age, since they have a lot of things on tap.
We rated crust a 10 because it was crunchy and had a smokey flavor. It was floppy, but that wasn’t enough to make it lose a point. We rated sauce a 9 because it was very little sauce and strong flavor, allowing other things to be on the pizza. Cheese was a 9 because they had fresh mozzarella chunks on it. Toppings was a 10 because they were unique, tasty, and there was a lot of them. Service was a 9 because they were kind and helpful when we had questions. 8 on affordability because to get a lot of food it would be a bit expensive, so it was a decent price for the amount. Atmosphere an 8 because its a really chill place to go hang out with friends and see the brewery.
Imagine, you are in some of the states most pristine waterways. It is a beautiful sunny day and you are casting into a pool of water directly under some rapids in the river. All of a sudden, you feel a tug on your rod. You pull back, set the hook, and boom you have a fish on. As you reel the fish in you can’t help but notice the beauty in what you are doing. You land your trout and celebrate with a picture before returning to it to the water. I believe trout fishing is one of the most enjoyable things you can do in the outdoors because you never know what you will catch and it’s a great way to get outside.
Dunn County and the surrounding areas have some of the best trout streams in the state of Wisconsin. With over 13,000 miles of trout streams in the state, no matter where you are, with any luck you will be catching fish. These streams hold a variety of trout, the most common being brook trout, Brown trout and Rainbow trout.
Brooke Trout (Pinterest.com) Brown Trout (Hatchmag.com) Rainbow Trout (kraa.org)
There are two main ways to fish when you are fishing for trout, fly fishing and spinning reel fishing. The main difference between these two is the way they are cased. Spinning reel fishing or traditional fishing is what most people think of when they think of fishing. Spinning reels allow you to fish much smaller streams and creeks where fly fishing would not be practical. On the other hand, when fly fishing, the weight of the line is used to carry the hook through the air. This is achieved by using a heavier and thicker line called fly line. The Fly line will float in the water and is connected to a leader. This leader end of your fly line is then connected to a lure called a fly. The main advantage of fly fishing is you will be able to cast very small lures much farther than you would be able to traditional fishing. However, fly fishing takes much more skill and time to master.
fly fishing rod (soutdoors.com) spinning reel and rod (Bassfishermansguide.com)
In Wisconsin there are two different seasons for trout fishing, Early Inland Trout Season and General Inland Trout Season. Early trout takes place from the first Saturday in January to Friday preceding the first Saturday in May. Early trout season is strictly catch and release season only. It is recommended that you use barbless hooks to not cause as much damage to the fishes’ mouth. General Inland Trout season takes place from the first Saturday in May to October 15th. During this season you can keep fish to eat. Daily bag limits and size restrictions vary from location to location so you will want to check the regulations before keeping fish.
To get started in your own adventure of trout fishing you will need some gear. The first and most important piece of equipment is a rod. Whether that be a spinning rod or fly rod. The second necessary thing you will need is a license. The state of Wisconsin requires you to have a normal fishing license and a trout stamp. These can be purchased at your local bait stores or places such a s Fleet Farm. The next thing you will need is bait and lures. If you are spinning reel fishing you can use a bobber and some worms, or you can go for something artificial like a Rooster Tail lure. For fly fishing you have the option to use dry fly’s, wet fly’s, poppers and streamers. To store all your tackle, you will need a good tackle box or bag. One optional piece equipment is as a pair of waders or high waterproof boots. This will make you much more mobile because you will be able to walk up the stream or river and cross when necessary.
Now that you have your gear you will need to know where and how to fish. To start, you will want to work your way upstream until you come across an area where trout will be holding. This consist of things such as slow-moving pools, structure such as rocks or logs and steep or undercut banks. Trout usually feed by sitting in slow moving water and waiting for their meal to float down the river before striking. You will want to work your way up the river casting upstream and working your bait back downstream.
fishing a slow moving pool (plannetware.com)
I interviewed a close friend of mine and fellow UW-Stout student Myles Fish to see what his take was on this wonderful sport. Myles says that he enjoys trout fishing because it gets him out into nature and away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Myles prefers to use spinning reels and rods because of the simplicity. When I asked Myles what his favorite all around bait to use was, he stated “A 1/16-ounce red Rooster Tail is my go-to for fishing local rivers”. I also asked him what local waterway was his favorite to fish. He told me that he enjoys fishing the Rush River in Ellsworth Wisconsin because that is where he has had the most luck. Myles also stated he likes to fish the early trout season more than that main season because he sees it as more of a challenge.
Myles with a brown trout
Overall, Trout fishing is a very enjoyable thing to do. With all kinds of options for places to fish in the state and a relatively cheap starting cost, it is a great sport to get into. Good Luck and tight lines!
Everyone loves pizza, but which pizza is the best? How do you determine if its the best? The cost? Taste? Luke and I went to 7 different pizza places in Menomonie and tried all of their pizza and graded them with a rubric we created. The restaurants we tried were Domino’s, Lucettes, Pizza hut, Papa Murphy’s, Little Ceasers, Toppers and Teds.
We graded the pizza and rated it based off of the rubric, plus other things like how long it took to get the food, cost to quality ratio, and whether its a place for a group of people or a pair.
Some of students biggest questions when it comes to student organizations are do I need background knowledge, is this club right for me, am I going to benefit from attending? Although these ultimately decide if a student is going to join a club or not, students should consider that more and more employers are hiring students on what they can do, not so much on how well they did in class (Hegedus). Joining a student organization shows employers that students have learned about more than just what is in a classroom. Do students really care about this? Hopefully we can change some minds by showing what the Baja club is all about, and by the end of this we will see how joining this or any student organization helps with resume building, devolving life experience and building communication skills.
The general purpose of this project was to inform students of the benefits of joining a student organization. The more specific purpose is to show the UW Stout Baja student organization and how people can learn valuable life skills by joining them or any student organization. Below is the podcast and transcript. In it, the members of the Baja organization explain about the club, what the club has accomplished, when they meet, and why people should join.
Stout Baja Podcast – by author
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Colin: See someone just needs to record this and we’d have a reality show before we know it
Josh: This is the content I subscribed for
Josh: All right so welcome to this podcast for English 102 about a, the SAE Baja student organization, is it okay if I call it that, I’m not going to get kicked out, alright so why don’t we start, you guys introduce yourself.
AJ: I am AJ Hoft I’m the lead driver and the human resources department of the Baja team.
Jason: I’m Jason Richardson I am the lead designer.
Colin: I am Colin Mittelstaedt and I am the President of SAE Baja.
Josh: what are your guys’ grades, like a.
AJ: I’m a sophomore.
Jason: I’m a senior.
Colin: I’m a junior.
Josh: All right, would you guys like mind giving a quick description of what the podcast, sorry, what the organization is, like in general.
Colin: I guess a brief overview is we design, build, and test a small off-road vehicle, so throughout the course of the Year Jason here oversees our design team, so go through and completely design a car from scratch, from there we move into actually manufacturing and Fabricating, said car, from the ground up, and then once we have a completed car we then take it out to test, whether that’s at our own test facility or around the country at different events.
Figure 1 – Building the Baja car
Josh: All right, do any of you guys know like when the organization actually started at all?
Jason: I think it was around the year 2000, is when the club officially started that’s as far back of records as we have, and that’s basically because our own event is 20 years old.
Josh: And then how long have you guys been in the club for?
AJ: I started last year.
Jason: It’ll be my, I think this is my third year.
Colin: I think so, I think this is my third year and you came in a semester after me so, after backwoods, so like 3 years, something like that.
Jason: Well like a month after you.
Josh: All right so what are like your guys’ roles of the club and what are like other roles in the club.
AJ: Well personally I help oversee manufacturing as well as deal with a lot of people management, I’m also in addition to being the lead driver myself, I assist in managing the other drivers and helping them come up with strategies and stuff
Jason: My main roll is the lead designer so I oversee the entire design team, we were lucky to get more of a design team this year which helped a lot because we struggled with a couple rules, but then I also drive, so technically I’m under AJ but at the same time I’m over AJ in some aspects, so it’s, we kind of fight a little bit.
Colin: I mean I kind of oversee everything what’s going on, I got my hand in just about every single part that goes on around here, yeah I mean everything from management to paper work, I’m the main point of contact for the school to the club, as well as I also manufacture and fabricate stuff as well, so I’m all over the place.
AJ: As far as a other roles for the club go, we have an entire media Department that basically creates all our graphic design and video and that kind of stuff, as well as we have manufacturers, people that assemble stuff, work on stuff, as well as design and management
Figure 2 – Clutch cover with the team logo
Jason: And a lot of people mix between different things, like a lot of our design team goes out now and is helping out with manufacturing making sure the car is running right, making sure the new car is going good.
Josh: So like helping out where they’re needed and stuff, I know you guys were saying you have your own event but what other events are there I mean including your own if you’d mind elaborating a little bit on what your guys is event is?
Colin: I mean so throughout the years, so typically will start off with midnight Mayhem which is it down in Louisville Kentucky so we’ll go down there that one’s typically end of September early October from there we go to late October into possibly November for our own event Backwoods Baja which is hosted like 20 minutes from here in Eau Gallie from there we go till middle of February we have blizzard, then we go up to Michigan Teck and we compete at Holton to race up on the snow there, and then from there we go till typically around April sometime is our Nationals event and that one is all over the place, this year is Arizona and we’ve been to Tennessee, Maryland, kind of all over the place
Figure 3 – The Baja car at Midnight Mayhem
Jason: I think in the past we’ve gone to Rochester New York; I think they’ve gone to Kansas and I think Madison hosted one time, that’s probably like 10 years ago.
Josh: And those are kind of like the main ones, and so like Baja backwoods is your event?
Colin: Yeah Backwoods we host.
Josh: So, is it run by you guys is it is it funded by you guys?
Colin: Yeah, we did all the promoting for it, we did all the organization behind it, contacting other teams, getting other team setup and running it’s all done by us.
Backwoods Baja 2017 – Tyler Huettenrauch
AJ: Essentially we do everything, even very high level, like we do everything from the organization, getting notice of the other teams all the way down to like we were the people in the pits tecking people, pushing people out of the mud with four wheelers that kind of stuff, as well as race design and that kind of stuff, track design, track work.
Josh: So you were saying you get other people to come, obviously to your event like, like where does this group sit, this organization Baja sit like over Wisconsin, like is there other schools that have similar to this when you go to Nationals, what other teams are there?
Jason: So, well when we, so last time I checked on the registration for Nationals in a Arizona there were probably 7 teams from Mexico as well as India, and then there were South American teams, I think they were also an Israeli team, but for locally the only Baja clubs around us are all, would be UW Milwaukee, Madison, and Platteville, oh yeah and Marquette.
Josh: That’s crazy so like when you go to Nationals how is that set up, like how many people are there?
Colin: So it’s a hundred teams a hundred cars, each team has a single car it’s a multi-day event, so we’ll start out with stuff as simple as just getting the car through tech making sure it’s up to the rules all that kind of stuff as well as the first couple days we have sales presentations as well as design presentations, so presenting to the judges about why we chose to do certain things stuff like that, then we move on later in the week we’ll get into Dynamic events, so testing specific aspects of the car whether that be maneuverability or suspension and traction which is basically like rock crawling, to stuff like Hill Climbs, sled pulls, all that, kind of testing certain areas of the car and then on the last day we do a four hour endurance event or race.
Figure 4 – The Baja car at Nationals
Josh: Very cool, so like you were saying with Backwoods you guys run all that, how is that and the organization in general funded?
Colin: A lot of it’s through sponsors, outside sponsors, companies, we also get a portion of funding through SSA which is the student government here.
Josh: Is that for the club or is that for Backwoods or both?
Colin: Backwoods is underneath the club so, backwards is funded through the club, they’re not separate entities.
AJ: And Backwoods is actually a money-making device for us as well.
Colin: We use it as a fundraiser or fundraising event for the club.
Josh: Very cool, so to kind of sum up, what kind of people are you looking for now or like on a regular basis?
AJ: Honestly what we’re looking for is just motivated people, we have a role for just about anybody it doesn’t have to be an engineer, like we said, we have an art Department, we have plenty of business stuff, we obviously are mostly Engineers because there is a lot of design and a lot of work going on, but what we’re really looking for is people that’ll show up, and work, and be a benefit to the team, and then hopefully we can also teach some stuff along the way, it’s honestly a really good Resume Builder for anybody.
Figure 5 – The Baja team repairing the car
Jason: And even if like they’re a business or an art major or something like that, even if it’s like they want to work with their hands or something like that, that’s perfect, that’s a critical part of what we do, to be able to work with your hands and actually make parts.
Josh: That’s actually why I wanted to join. Anyway, you guys kind of answered like background knowledge that’s required, because I know a lot of it is working on stuff, like you said with your hands and mechanics and I know there’s also, with computer stuff, is there any knowledge you need for that, like the CAD design?
Jason: We don’t require it, actually at the beginning of the year we will help teach people how to use SolidWorks or any sort of CAD, FEA analysis, basically any software.
AJ: Yeah and that also extends to outside the software stuff, like in general you really don’t need a skill set as long as you come in and you’re particularly motivated, where we have a wide enough skill set, especially at the higher level of the club, that we can teach you just about anything you need to know for what we’re doing, it’s just whether or not you’re willing to listen and work basically, some good life skills.
Jason: I think the really cool part is that we kind of treat each other like family as well, and that if someone has a question about a homework assignment or something like that or they don’t get something we’re basically all tutoring each other on whatever thing that we specialize in or what we’re passionate in.
Colin: I think the biggest thing is attitude, as long as you bring a positive attitude to the club we are more than willing to bring you into the family and teach you what you need to know, what you need, anything like that, you just need a positive attitude or we don’t want you around.
Josh: And I was going to say like for some reasons like why to join I know there’s a study done by Dr. Knight at the University of Arizona and he and a student did a research of why students join student organizations and why they don’t join, and one of the most popular ones was leadership skills, the next one was resume, like you said build your resume, another one, to grow professionally and work with your hands, get better, and then the last one was friends, people said they join because of friends, and reasons not to join was they said because of time, they didn’t have enough time because of either school work or work was kind of the two main reasons, did you guys have that, do you deal with that I mean?
Figure 6 – Provided by Author Data From – Dr. James Knight and Christine M. Hegedus
AJ: Yeah we deal with that quite significantly, especially when were up in the higher management levels, the Club is a large time commitment for us so it can definitely get challenging with time management but along the same vein not everybody has to do what we’re doing like you can be a member of the club and you can just show up to the two-hour of meetings per week.
Jason: Yeah and that’s basically how I started in the club was I just kind of showed up to the meetings and just sat at my computer and just started designing stuff.
Colin: That’s kind of how most people start because that’s how I started too, that’s just come to the meetings that was it, and as you grow with the club then you learn more you know more, and the invested time commitment becomes more and more, you know, up in the exec board and stuff like that takes, I spend a lot of time on Baja outside of meetings.
Jason: All three of us are lab techs.
Colin: Yeah as well as, most of the higher-ups in Baja are some sort of lab tech for one of the professors here at campus, whether it’s welding or machine or controls or you know fluids or anything like that.
Josh: Right, and on top of class and stuff, and speaking of like you were saying the best thing to do is come to meetings that’s the best place to start, when do you have meetings, when are your meet times?
AJ: So, we are Tuesday and Thursday, we start at 6:30 pm I’m usually are done by like 8:30-9 sometimes we’ll go later depending on the pressing issues and that kind of stuff.
Josh: And where is that.
Colin: Jarvis 160 Tech wing classroom.
AJ: And then our shop is next door down the hall.
Josh: And then my last question was kind of how long do you guys meet, is that normally like 2 hours do you go longer or shorter?
AJ: Yeah typically we go don’t go any shorter but depending on the workload like the nights before a race we can be here quite late but.
Jason: And we everyone doesn’t have to stay the whole time like we have a lot of members that come at 6:30 and leave at 7:30 because they have a lot of homework to do, or to be honest a lot of them like to go out drinking because Thursday nights, but yeah like you don’t have to stay the whole time
Colin: It’s not by the start time, it’s the end time that is kind of dictated by what you’re specifically doing that night, stuff like that, and so we don’t really have a set end time of like everyone leaves at, you know, this time it just kind of, you do what you need to do for the day and when you get done you’re free to go.
AJ: And that being the club is really independent, we’re not a club that just sits in a circle and talks the entire time, you come in for the first 15 minutes, you kind of get told what’s happening that night and you go do what you’re going to do, you help with where you can, and then if you have to do homework or you have to do something you’re more than welcome to do homework in the classroom and that kind of stuff too and just being part of it, but we also understand if you have to leave and go study.
Josh: Yeah that’s awesome thank you guys, to kind of finish off what is your favorite event or like specific event or day, just to kind of end off?
AJ: Previously, like the last two weeks was actually my favorite, we went up to Michigan and ran the blizzard Baja race and we’re actually able to finish first with our lead competition car that me and Jason are a part of the drive team on, and then as well as our slower car which is actually 10 years old we managed to pull off a third, out of 30 + cars and other colleges.
Jason: It’s more like 50 cars but yeah.
AJ: It’s hard to count them when they’re all behind you. [laughter]
The Blizzard Baja car 2020
Jason: Granted we did have to stop so you probably had to turn off the motor so you probably could have counted them all, but who would want to do that ever. [laughter] Mine would actually be I think it was fall of 2018 when we went to Louisville, Kentucky for the first time like Colin and I went and just two other guys on the team went with us and we rolled up by the small-school there, we just had a car, a 24 foot enclosed trailer, we were freaking sleeping in the trailer keeping the car parked outside, like a really cheap dirt track racer basically, and we actually won the event and it was like really, really fun to do that and we actually were so tired after, we brought all this alcohol with us because we were expecting to be partying it up and we were just tired after both nights and we were like we had one drink I think after we won and we are like yep we’re done, we’re exhausted we got to sleep in and then we were late.
Colin: I mean there were only four of us, so there was four of us to do everything that was driving, that was all the pit crew stuff, that was strategy, that was, you know, everything, maintaining the car there’s only four so we all were quite exhausted by the end of that.
Jason: Yeah and the drive there was not exactly the most fun.
Colin: I don’t know that I have a singular favorite moment, I mean, throughout my entire time at the club kind of been a rollercoaster, there’s definitely been really high, highs, you know, winning competitions and stuff like that, there’s also been some lows, it’s not always just, you know, parties and flowers and everything else, you know, there is at the end of the day we have to do work, we got to build a car, but I mean it’s just the experience, you know, I met Jason and I met AJ here through Baja.
Josh: What a bummer. [laughter]
Colin: We are most likely going to be friends for life. I mean 2 friends + more, you know, that will be with me for the rest of my life and had I not joined Baja and not done what I’ve done in Baja I might not have met them and not, you know, had this experience and had this ability to do what we do and I don’t know.
Jason: Yeah I kind of feel the same way too because like I know I joined Baja because I didn’t make the golf team my sophomore year, and I was bored off my mind for a month, so I was just like and I’ll go see what it’s like and what not, check it out, and I was just like, there were some things that the club wasn’t doing for car prep and right before a race and I’m like I think I need to stick around just so I that way I can do this myself.
AJ: Yep, I mean like I joined because I walked up on the first meeting and I manage to find another guy who drove dirt track race cars, you know, I showed up for the first meeting and.
Jason: He’s been giving me crap ever since.
AJ: Who would have known that you’d ended up racing 10hp Baja cars with your family and your best friends, not to get too sappy.
Figure 7 – Baja Team at Midnight Mayhem
Jason: We’ve definitely had our lows.
Colin: I mean, yeah it’s not.
Jason: I know my first national trip was definitely a low for me as a designer but.
Colin: It’s part of running a race team, not everything goes your way not everything works the way you expected it to, and sometimes you have catastrophic failures and it sucks, it’s, I’m not going to lie to you, I’m not going to sugarcoat it, it sucks, but you know at the end of the day eventually you get through it and we turn a car that went to Nationals and couldn’t even finish two years in a row, to now we won two competitions with that same car so.
Jason: So, we just don’t have any luck at the competition that we actually want to do well at. [laughter]
AJ: And honestly I think that’s a good life teaching in general, like in college in general you get to fail pretty safely, like there’s no, like at the end of the day college is hard but there is no consequences, and then you get thrown into the real world where there’s consequences and you don’t know where to go, this is a good place to learn what Consequences are because it’s not as bad as failing in the real world it’s like, you go out, let’s say he designed something wrong when he’s working on a fire truck or whatever, somebody dies, you get lawsuits that kind of the stuff, he failed something here, we lose a race, we’re all pissed at each other.
Jason: he’s pissed at me when the car brakes. [laughter]
Colin: There’ll probably be some shouting, they’ll be arguing.
AJ: So, there’s more consequences than just like failing a test but it’s, it’s a good learning.
Josh: Specially now, I would say just for me, I didn’t, I wasn’t going to join because I was like oh I’m a freshman, you know, what am I going to do there, what good is that and I didn’t really have any skill-set, I still don’t but I talked to Colin and he was, basically what he said, it’s not really about your skill-set and there’s so much you can learn here there’s so much you can gain and I mean I only been here for a little bit and I’ve learned so much and like you said it’s very important life skills and so might as well start, start now right.
AJ: I hope that we can provide that as well as hard skills and that kind of stuff too, like if you can come in here not knowing how to run an angle grinder and you can leave running an angle grinder without hurting yourself, you’ve learned a life skill.
Jason: Yeah and the cool part about how we run our meetings to is basically the first 15 minutes is like what’s happening and then kind of sending people on their merry way to see, to do their tasks, that’s kind of how your jobs going to be out of college it’s going to be your boss going to you and being like hey, go do this, you go do it and then if you’re done with it an hour early we don’t care you got it done.
Josh: Ill right that’s all I have for you guys thanks for a, thanks for coming on answering some questions hopefully we did answer some students questions, you know, want to join in if not this club hopefully they find a club because like I was saying with this study it definitely is worthwhile.
AJ: All I have to say is if you’re interested from what you herd here, stop by at one of the meetings, look us up and reach out.
Colin: Or reach out to one of us, will take care of you.
Jason: Or just reach out to any club just go don’t be afraid to talk to someone about it like I emailed the president of the club at the time and was like hey, can I stop by one day and just kind of see what the meetings are like, yeah sure, so I just stopped by.
Colin: Reach out, that’s all it takes one email, one text, one phone call whatever it is or just even showing up to a meeting, you know, when you find the time go ahead show up, you know, I’m sure they’ll be more than happy to show you around like we have no problem showing people around, we did have one actually come in earlier tonight.
Jason: I think he’s still working actually to, he was in the shop, I know, doing some angle grinding.
AJ: So, if you’re going to do that just come in and ask for, probably ask for Colin or AJ and we’ll show you around, and get you taken care of.
Jason: Because he’s the HR. [laugher]
AJ: Yeah, I am HR, I’m supposed to direct that kind of stuff.
Josh: All right, well sounds good, that’s all I got, if you guys have any remarks or anything?
AJ: I don’t got anything.
Josh: [smacks table] Join the club, alright.
Jason: Thank you
Josh: Thank you guys, now I have to write that transcript [laughter]
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