Since the Veishea committee is still in the preliminary planning stages for Veishea 1996, the Daily editorial board felt that it may be a good time to offer a suggestion than may change the face of the celebration as we now know it. If the Veishea committee acts quickly, the change could be successfully implemented by April.

As most students know Veishea is an acronym for the original seven colleges at Iowa State. But as the university has grown over the past several years, the names of the colleges have changed, and several new colleges have been created. The acronym has lost its meaning. Just try to figure it out: The “V” is easy — Veterinary Medicine. So is the “E,” which stands for either Engineering or Education. But once you get to the “I” most students are stumped.

Our suggestion is simple: Create a new acronym and change the name of our annual spring celebration. ISU’s current list of colleges are as follows: agriculture, business, design, education, engineering, family and consumer science, liberal arts and sciences, veterinary medicine and the graduate college.

After hours of intense debate, we have come up with VEFEGLASBAD (pronounced vef-‚-glas-bad). Now granted, it doesn’t quite have the rhyme that Veishea does, but it will update the celebration’s commitment to education.

And getting students to chant “Vefeglasbad! Vefeglasbad!” instead of “Veishea! Veishea!” may be difficult as well, but isn’t that what proper marketing is all about? And those riots we had a few years back? Well, no one would associate Vefeglasbad with them.