Wake up ISU: Veishea is not a student-run festival.

I can’t begin to count the number of articles, editorials, and letters to the editor that have appeared in the Daily this year complaining about Veishea.

Yet most of these still say “student-run festival.”

If Veishea were student-run, there probably wouldn’t be as many complaints about it.

Maybe I should count myself lucky to be a freshman and to have never been to a true student-run Veishea.

I have nothing to compare to, and therefore, nothing to really gripe about.

But if everything I hear people saying about how Veishea has gone downhill in the past few years is true, I can’t promise that I will participate.

I can honestly say that I haven’t heard a positive thing about Veishea from any student since I started attending here in the fall.

The fact remains that Veishea is not student-run.

It is administration-run, and it appears it always will be. I think someone should slap ISU with a wrongful advertising lawsuit if they continue to market Veishea as student-run.

Perhaps a more appropriate advertisement for prospective students would be “Come to ISU, home of Veishea.

The festival where we tell you when to party, where to party, how to party, and with whom you party.”

So complain about Veishea if you wish, but don’t say that it’s student-run.

This raises another question, too. We can’t boast about football and we can’t boast about Veishea, so what do we boast about now?

The fact that the ISU Daily has hosted the longest running Christian vs. non-Christian debate of any university around the world?

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Ryan Walrod

Freshman

Performing arts