Student-athletes at DVC are hoping to get early registration if a vote in the faculty senate meeting goes as planned.

The DVC Faculty Senate brought up the idea to give student-athletes early registration on May 10.

The Faculty Senate has yet to approve the move for student-athletes yet, but on May 17th the ASDVC board approved the move to give student-athletes early registration.

The ASDVC vote was required for the passing of the early registration move for student-athletes. Now DSS note takers will share early registration with student-athletes.

Hector Torres, a member of the DVC baseball team, said, “We need to get classes … we have to be full time students to play ball … I like the idea of having early registration.”

Joe Lewis, another baseball team member, agreed: “It would be amazing to have early registration.”

Their teammate, Alex Palsha, said, “We spend more time on campus then other students; we deserve to have early registration.”

While most student-athletes agree that early registration would be a benefit, some students who are not athletes feel it is not needed.

“It is not really fair that the student athletes would get early registration… they should go through the same process as all other students,” said sports medicine student Kevin Boyd.

Others understand why the student-athletes would like to have early registration, or need to have it.

“It’s a two-sided issue,” said sports medicine student Bryan Gima-Derrow. “Student athletes schedule their classes around practice, and they need to give us some of our time too, they can’t take classes that interfere with their sports. I don’t think its fair, but it makes sense to me.”