How do you like them apples?

DONNA ROBLES Staff Drobles.roundupnews@gmail.com

The Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society awarded the recipients of the Golden Apple Award during the Faculty Appreciation Banquet on May 11, 2016 in the Great Hall.

One professor from each department received the award, and one outstanding professor received the Golden Apple Award to represent the whole faculty.

“Our professors do everything they can so they prepare us for the next level. This event, it’s usually a fundraiser for AGS. Regardless of how you feel about the internet here, regardless of how you feel about the bathrooms or the construction, when it comes to classroom setting, some of the best experiences that we have here on this campus have been the direct result of the people that in their classrooms and deliver their lesson plan,” Joe Hernandez, 28, an international development studies major, and president of Alpha Gamma Sigma honor society, said in his opening speech.

According to Hernandez, the appreciation day started as a fundraising event to raise scholarships for the AGS honor society wherein students will pay a dollar if they want to nominate for their favorite professor. However, for this year, they decided to it somewhat different. No dollars needed to show appreciation for the professors.

“This year, since the first time I’ve been here, instead of fundraiser, we tabled out there for a week. We gave students candy in exchange to come and vote because you never know when somebody’s going to drop a 20 for professors,” Hernandez said.

Lunches were served to the professors as they came in groups on different times from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., and every seven minutes, a Golden Apple recipient from each department was announced.

“This banquet is for them. We want to show them that we