Are you a Redeemer student? Have you been disc golfing a little too much lately? Does the sight of a bad score send you into a deep depression? Have you heard the word “par” one too many times?
Then Senate has a new solution for you! You’ve heard of Alcoholics Anonymous, you’ve heard of Narcotics Anonymous, and you’ve also heard of Gambling Anonymous. This club is nothing like those clubs—your disc golf problems are probably not that life-threatening. That being said, the Disc Golfers Anonymous Club serves as a safe space for those Redeemer students who are looking to move away from disc golf and towards better, more stress-free hobbies… Like fencing, or maybe spikeball. If you’re more focused on your disc golf scores than your academic progress, then Senate strongly encourages you to seek help through the Disc Golfers Anonymous Club.
The decision to ratify the new Disc Golfers Anonymous Club comes hand-in-hand with a similar Senate decision to recreate the prayer room (close to the art gallery) into a new room with a new purpose. “We decided to take the calming vibe that the prayer room emits,” said an anonymous Senate member, “and focus that on one purpose—helping disc golfers quit. What our former disc golfers really need is a zen environment, free from the whizzing of frisbees and the clanging of the metal targets.”
A typical Disc Golfers Anonymous (DGA for short) meeting includes serious confessions about the “One More Round” philosophy, a time to sacrifice any discs they might still own (the record being forty-two collected in one meeting, including a RU disc with a glow-in-the-dark Leo the Lion), and what DGA likes to call “Anything But Disc Golf”. “Anything But Disc Golf” is a time when group members are challenged to have a conversation with each other without mentioning disc golf, including scores, numbers of discs owned, best courses played, etc. The goal that admins have set for ABDG is a one-hour conversation, but the longest that the DGA club has ever done in a meeting is eight minutes with a conversation about spike ball. This, of course, ultimately led back to a discussion about disc golf, but leadership said that they were “proud they at least went over two minutes this time.” They have yet to meet their goal, but Senate is optimistic that in the 2027 academic year, there will be fewer disc golf–centred conversations on campus. The DGA meets for five hours every Tuesday night in what used to be the prayer room, now named the “Basket Case Room”.
But DGA isn’t all serious. “The goal for every member of the DGA is to essentially find a new, less annoying hobby,” says the Senate member. “We really want to rewire our members’ brains to have fun doing anything but disc golf.” Some of their more interesting events lately include bird watching, running around Luther Court, or taking a car load of former disc golfers to see the premiere of the Minecraft movie.