Written by: Alex Mueller, Staff Writer
For a second time, Poly students clashed in important debates, individually enunciating their perspectives on highly pertinent subjects and collectively representing Poly’s opinions. However, this time, Poly Spotlight added a winter theme for the holiday season.
Debating between the peaceful yet often harsh precipitation of either frigid snow or wet rain, a majority of Polyites (55%) argued snow is superior, contrasting a dissenting 45% who, embracing Riverside’s limited snowfall, prefer the wetness of rain. According to one respondent, snow represents “where Santa lives” and therefore “is cool,” yet another respondent cites Riverside’s lack of snowfall to support their ‘pro-rain’ stance.
Overwhelmingly, Poly students at a value of 80% to 20%, underscored their preference for the warming sensation of hot chocolate over the sweet richness of eggnog.
Every December, grocery stores, clothing shops, and radios routinely play Christmas music to celebrate the holiday season. While three-fourths of Polyites tolerate this musical trend, a dissident minority perceives Christmas music as inescapable, with the trend seemingly stretching beyond humanly tolerable limits.
Judging the two signature spices of both the Holidays and Halloween, Polyites generally voted for the rich, Christmas-associated spice of cinnamon, preferring its Holiday flavoring over the Halloween-associated pumpkin spice which maintains only 38% of the vote.
Contesting the winter sports of Skiing and snowboarding, a staunch 66% of Polyites prefer snowboarding, with one supporter emphatically believing snowboarding shall “always be better than skiing.” However, 34% contradict this assertion, believing in the supremacy of skiing.