On Wednesday evening at about 10:30 p.m. at Towers residence halls, a group of students began yelling out their windows back and forth between buildings. This might not seem unusual, but the yelling and screaming soon turned into an assembly in the Towers’ courtyard that kept getting bigger and bigger. In no time at all, the assembly grew large enough to attract the attention of Student Security, DPS and even the Ames Police. Why? They were not doing anything wrong.

What was the assembly for? The reasons seemed to vary throughout the now large gathering. The crowd of students chanted against a dry Veishea, against rate increases for university housing and even against the presence of law enforcement, but the reason that I got most from students for being in the courtyard was that they didn’t want to miss out on all of the fun. I feel all the students gathered in the courtyard because they had a bad case of spring fever.

With the music (from people’s windows), the large group of restless students and the lack of alcohol, I think that Towers residents may have gotten a small taste of what’s in store for dry Veishea this year.

Joe Gross

Sophomore

Agriculture education