Event #4: UNC Student Organization

Last week I attended a Club Track and Field meeting. This meeting was regarding their elections for their organizations leaders and to talk a bit about the program for next year. I wanted to run for the club track team this semester, but was unable to and have been a bit out of the loop. However, I have friends that run on the team and they suggested that I come.

For the most part, most of the positions were already decided. However, for the position of president there were three candidates who spoke. One was a female and then there were two males who wanted to run for president. Their different choices in rhetoric spoke to difference audiences and gave off a different tone. The first candidate was a joke. In fact, he wasn't even there. Another member of the team spoke on his behalf. He spoke about the person barely attending workouts and how he'll probably be on the varsity team next year. The audience was meant to be those who see the group as joke, but for the audience that took the club seriously, he was not presented as the candidate for him. The next person had a rhetoric that displayed him as an intelligent and capable person. However, his audience spoke more to the long distance runners. He promised to help them out more, completely ignoring the sprinters. The third candidate gave a similar rhetoric to the last person. However, her audience was far broader. She spoke to all of the partcipants of the club team. She wanted to improve relations between distance and sprinters and to keep the team more uniform and cohesive.

This meeting added to my experience to UNC because being interested in the club, I would like to know if I were to join again that it would be in the hands of the right person. Also, it was nice to see how an organization is run. The group seemed to have a very friendly atmosphere with people who genuinely cared about the sport. To see that there is a place in which I could feel comfortable around campus and be around people who have the same interests as myself was very positive. It is nice to find a niche in any large campus, and the UNC Club Track and Field team provided an option for my niche at UNC