With VEISHEA not being an official event anymore due to last year’s not-so-fateful night, it’s left a lot of students wondering what the plan is, if there is one.

With various Facebook pages and events being made throughout the course of the year claiming to be the official continuation of the unofficial tradition, everyone is first wondering when the unofficial week of debauchery will even take place. One page first claimed in August that it would continue the spring tradition with “Weishea 2015,” but gave no tentative date. Then as the fall semester came to a close, a new page popped up called “Freeishea Ames,” laying claim that the festivities will ensue the week of April 6-10. I’m sure there are countless others that I’m missing, but the point is that there’s little coordination.

The celebration, starting out as a celebration of the original colleges and Iowa State’s community progress, slowly turned into a notorious week of drunken escapades and students nationwide flocking to Ames. Sounds a lot like most celebrations or holidays, but I particularly have Saint Patrick’s Day in mind.

As many of you know, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus celebrates “Unofficial Saint Patrick’s Day,” or “Unofficial.” The tradition began in the 90s when St. Patrick’s Day began to consistently fall during Spring Break and students didn’t like that. So local bar owners made up their own event and it has now grown to something of a national spectacle. Will this happen here in Ames? I find it very likely.

Although there is much confusion about what week to hold it, I still do not doubt college students’ ability to create beautiful chaos wherever they desire. Some students have tweeted, “You might as well declare the whole month of April ‘VEISHEA month.'” Although I do feel that students would love that and would do it if it were possible, I do not, however, think that will happen. Between heightened police control and college students’ inability to visit Ames every weekend for a month, I doubt Ames residents have to worry about that. I do, however, think that there are students who can pull off some spectacular things, should they choose.

Student groups and small companies have put together concerts and paint bashes this past year and for countless years prior, and with the help of social media, they can really create an “Unofficial VEISHEA” that goes toe-to-toe with University of Iowa’s.

Last spring we saw the Government of the Student Body and other members of the Iowa State and Ames community come together to try and salvage the original traditions of VEISHEA, and let’s hope that enthusiasm and passion carries over to this spring as well because it’s important to remember where you came from.

It’s tough to predict what will happen this coming April, since college students really are unpredictable, but I do have a strong feeling that VEISHEA won’t die quietly. I mean, come on, we’re Cyclones. We never go down without a fight.