It's like having students become the extra player on the field. Vocal and spirited students can make a huge difference at athletic events.

I met him as a result of Operation NOW, and he's a very passionate human being with a lot of energy. And he's focused and harnessed that energy on this program to everyone else's benefit.

The act itself has a lot of ambiguity and as such it has placed a tremendous burden on districts to define exactly how they're going to implement the mandates of the act.

For the last several years, the number of students in attendance has been from 800 to just under 1,000.

It has grown in two ways. Not only in the number of students that attend, but also the total number of community organizations and individuals that have become involved.

I think this is so students know where the bonds are going, what the college is doing with the money and seeing that it is not going elsewhere.