College Bowl Starts off Rough, But Is Sailing Along

Things couldn't have been shakier for college bowl this year. The trouble started when the team lost their adviser Rick Haught last year.

"Rick brought the whole thing to life. He was the prime mover behind it," professor Kurt Hackemer said.

Since Haught left, college bowl has been without an adviser. Graduate student Jon Radermacher, who is participating in college bowl for his fifth year, said he is working with coordinator Kristin Hoesing with Program Council to find an adviser for college bowl.

Without an adviser, Program Council was left to organize the campus tournament. Relying on another source to organize the campus event proved to be difficult and changing dates made it harder to get the word out for potential competitors.

They were also unable to get question readers and moderators who have consistently done it in previous years, including Hackemer.

"It's such a fun time. There's some razzing back and forth, especially when you've had students in a civil war course and they miss a civil war question," Hackemer said.

In years past, Radermacher said the tournament drew in eight to 12 teams of four competitors. This year they had four teams.

The top eight individual competitors from any team are chosen to participate on the regional team. Out of the eight, five participate in the regional tournament.

Because the pool was smaller from which to build a team for the regional tournament, it was difficult to pick members that would be successful at the regional level.

Only Radermacher and senior Andrea Peterson are attending regionals after going through the campus tournaments.

"It's not just the four smartest people that make the team," Hackemer said. "A good team will have a person who is good with current events, someone good with literature and those who know science and history."

But none-the-less the college bowl is still exciting and will be packed full of nothing but awesome football and crazed fans.

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