LETTER: Howl fits criteria for ‘tradition’

To the editor:

The Finals Week Howl is once again in the news. The local media has become involved in the issue, as well as the staff of this newspaper (April 16th’s OurView dismissing the Finals Week Howl as a mere sponteneous distraction), and it seems that everyone now has an opinion about the howling.

Whether you are for or against the act is not the important thing. Whether or not ASUSU is for or against it is not the important thing, either. Sanctioning the Finals Week Howl is like giving us the go-ahead to breathe; it’s going to happen. This is college, where zany, unorthodox ideas materialize. Why not have a little fun while we’re at it, and make something lasting for the students who come after us? Along with riding the bull naked, kissing sloppily on the A, and painting giant footprints all over campus, we can leave something just as ridiculous, but with our names on it. And writers of OurView, I don’t see how the definition of tradition doesn’t fit: … tra·di·tion -noun 1. the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, esp. by word of mouth or by practice. You had it right in the first defining sentence of your article. Howl on!

Christopher Young