2008 Woodie Awards
Hit a dog, get a prize
Club's trip full of adventures
Margaret Straling
Issue date: 2/27/03 Section: Opinion
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The Recreation Club’s trip to Big White enabled students to come home with a sense of pure satisfaction. Thanks to Dan Cleary, recreation club president, we experienced a trip that I hope goes into the UWT history books and makes a path toward future excursions.
Students had bruises, sore muscles, injuries and or hangovers as testimony of their experience. Yet everyone came back with memories to last a life time.
Some of the students had not been boarding or skiing much, if at all. The first day allowed us to warm up and regain some skills. On the second day our skills had improved. Students enjoyed endless hours cross cutting through the mountain’s never-ending runs, leaving us wondering which chairlift or run we should take next. Big White was so large our guides urged us not to venture to the other side of the mountain after 1 p.m. otherwise we might miss the return bus.
Each afternoon on the bus a prize was awarded to the person with the best snow story. Have you heard the rumors about the snowboarder that hit a dog? It is true.
Sabrina Bann, ASUWT Senator and IAS student hit a dog with her snowboard and was granted a prize. Bann can thank Joe Chynoweth of UWT Facilities for sharing the story. He shared her collision with 55 members on the bus and was also awarded a prize for his side of the story.
“Rumor abounded on the Mountain side that someone slammed into and nearly killed a poor innocent puppy. When I returned to the bus I asked Sabrina if she had heard these rumors, she became very defensive and claimed it was not her fault that the dog quit walking in front of her so she mowed it over. When I asked her what happened to the dog she stated, ‘it walked a couple of steps and collapsed,’ I don’t know how badly the poor, dear animal was hurt. However for the remainder of the weekend people from waiters to skiers to hotel patrons continued to ask if she was the woman who hit the dog with a snowboard,” said Chynoweth.
He also recalled the last time United States went to war with Canada was over a pig. “I don’t want to go to war again over a dog,” he said.
On the bus ride back to UWT students had moved out of their introverted stages and were sharing their adventure with their newly found friends. When I asked Bann what she thought the trip did for UWT, she said, “people saw how much fun it was, we had a high attendance and when you have things like that it shows you have a campus where students get involved despite the branch, commuter stigma that UWT has.” Those who went on the trip all agreed that UWT needs to have more trips like this one. The Big White trip was nothing but snowboarding, skiing and having fun with fellow UWT friends.
Students had bruises, sore muscles, injuries and or hangovers as testimony of their experience. Yet everyone came back with memories to last a life time.
Some of the students had not been boarding or skiing much, if at all. The first day allowed us to warm up and regain some skills. On the second day our skills had improved. Students enjoyed endless hours cross cutting through the mountain’s never-ending runs, leaving us wondering which chairlift or run we should take next. Big White was so large our guides urged us not to venture to the other side of the mountain after 1 p.m. otherwise we might miss the return bus.
Each afternoon on the bus a prize was awarded to the person with the best snow story. Have you heard the rumors about the snowboarder that hit a dog? It is true.
Sabrina Bann, ASUWT Senator and IAS student hit a dog with her snowboard and was granted a prize. Bann can thank Joe Chynoweth of UWT Facilities for sharing the story. He shared her collision with 55 members on the bus and was also awarded a prize for his side of the story.
“Rumor abounded on the Mountain side that someone slammed into and nearly killed a poor innocent puppy. When I returned to the bus I asked Sabrina if she had heard these rumors, she became very defensive and claimed it was not her fault that the dog quit walking in front of her so she mowed it over. When I asked her what happened to the dog she stated, ‘it walked a couple of steps and collapsed,’ I don’t know how badly the poor, dear animal was hurt. However for the remainder of the weekend people from waiters to skiers to hotel patrons continued to ask if she was the woman who hit the dog with a snowboard,” said Chynoweth.
He also recalled the last time United States went to war with Canada was over a pig. “I don’t want to go to war again over a dog,” he said.
On the bus ride back to UWT students had moved out of their introverted stages and were sharing their adventure with their newly found friends. When I asked Bann what she thought the trip did for UWT, she said, “people saw how much fun it was, we had a high attendance and when you have things like that it shows you have a campus where students get involved despite the branch, commuter stigma that UWT has.” Those who went on the trip all agreed that UWT needs to have more trips like this one. The Big White trip was nothing but snowboarding, skiing and having fun with fellow UWT friends.