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April 25, 2025 Vol. 100, No. 13 @HUStudentPubs Facebook: Harding University Student Publications
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Hume, Gaskill elected to lead SGA
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Emma Gaskill and Grayson Hume pose in front of the Heritage. Hume and Gaskill ran together for president and vice president of the Student Government Association (SGA) and were elected last week. JULIA JENKINS guest writer Finishing another school year means electing the next round of Student Government Association members. As this semester closes, students across campus have stepped up to fill these leadership positions. Junior Grayson Hume was elected student body president, sophomore Emma Gaskill was elected vice president and junior Reed Wilson was elected secretary. These students along with many others who were elected will play a special role in making a difference on Harding’s campus in the upcoming academic year. Hume, who has been in the SGA since his freshman year, explained how his previous experience in the SGA will help him during his presidency.
“I think my experiences from the previous years being in the student government will give me a unique opportunity to be able to take a few steps ahead already having an established partnership with the administration,” Hume said. “I know who to talk to and where to turn to for specific problems or ideas. I also have three presidents worth of information that I can lean into and contact if I have questions.” Hume and Gaskill’s theme for the upcoming academic year is “one step at a time.” With this theme, they are dedicated to make this campus and community better by taking it just one step at a time. Gaskill, sophomore female representative from this previous year, described how she
feels ready moving into the new year because of her leadership role from this past year. “I learned not only what to get done, but how you get things done,” Gaskill said. “I know what resources are out there and how to use them, so I’m excited to, with that experience under my belt, be able to use them in more productive and efficient ways.” Wilson, student body vice president this previous year, talked about her excitement coming into a new year with the SGA. “I really enjoyed being on the Illumination committee last year, and even though Grayson and Emma don’t have the exact same theme, they are committed to shedding light on amazing things on campus,” Wilson said. “So I hope that I can use the skills I learned and the connections I made to continue what Adele and I started last year.”
Hume described his excitement at getting to work alongside previous SGA members again in the upcoming year. “The thing I’m most excited about is that we have so many returning people to the student government that we all worked together so well we will be able to hit the ground running solving problems for the students,” Hume said. “I’m also excited to be the person that gets to help make this campus better,” Hume said. “I’m excited to serve the community in ways that I might not even know yet.”
Chapel in review: looking at the statistics of a semester ANDREW RENEAU copy editor
Welcome to The Bison’s spring 2025 chapel review. Staff catalogued the length of each daily chapel in the Benson Auditorium from Jan. 15 to April 18, excluding the three chapels that the author skipped. Staff also conducted a brief survey of students entering and exiting the cafeteria, asking questions about how they perceived chapel. Seventy students responded to the
survey, which consisted of three questions asking how long students thought chapel should be; whether they liked break-out chapels more than the regular chapel held in the Benson; and how many minutes, on average, they thought chapel lasted this semester. Of the 54 recorded chapels, 12 were at or above 30 minutes. Nine were at or below 20 minutes. The longest chapel this semester was on
March 10 and lasted 37 minutes; the shortest was 16 minutes on March 9. When asked how long they thought chapel had lasted this semester, 71.4% of students said between 21-30 minutes, and 20% answered between 31-40. According to staff data, the average end time for daily chapel was 26.1 minutes. When asked how long students thought chapel should be, 11.6% answered 0-10 minutes, 46.4% said 11-20, and 37.7% said
21-30. A free response section was given, to which one student responded that he wished chapel would last for 10,000,000 minutes. The average time for the four recorded chapels that occurred on Black and Gold days was 26.5 minutes, slightly longer than the overall average of 26.1. When asked whether they liked breakout chapel more than daily chapel, 37.8% of students answered yes while 67.2% said the opposite. A yes or no response was required,
Graphics by BEN EVANS