We needed a holiday. A little rest and relaxation to keep us sane. So a Boston University professor started his own–National Workplace Napping Day fell on the day after daylight savings to compensate for the lost hour.
We at the ol’ Free Press have decided to make up our own school holidays to take a much needed break from our commitments and to give students an excuse to act up.
Boston University could start up the school year with Dart Through Traffic Day on September 19. Freshmen would zigzag in and out of vehicles flying up and down the campus. The next day would be Comm. Ave. Survival Day for all those people who lived to tell the tale of their run-ins with poor Boston drivers.
We have Football Team Appreciation Day on October 24 — a sad, sad day in 1997 — when BU would provide free football replica jerseys and a box of Kleenex to every undergraduate who never experienced the joy, the bliss, the rapture that was a Terrier gridiron battle. Oh, the good ol’ days.
Wear Your Pajamas to Class Day could be right after the November break. Before adjusting to classes again and before stressing over the end-of-the-semester, students would get to experience the exhilarating feeling of rolling out of bed and rolling into class without even a second thought the people sitting around them.
April 20 could be Search for Grass Day when students would scour the school looking for this coveted addition to campus. But, inevitably, some students would become confused by this obvious double entendre, and instead of heading for the BU Beach may head for the nearest …
Yeah, moving on to our personal favorite–a year-long festival of sorts known simply as Chancellor for a Day. Using a complicated, state-of-the-art lottery system (unlike the 47-year-old computer BU uses for the housing lottery) to assign random BU freshmen each a day of their very own to shadow Chancellor John Silber in the hopes they may absorb his knowledge and street smarts to one day become a chancellor of his high esteem.
Some days, we just can’t wait for.
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