Of course, the schools that sponsor these yearly drinkathons never advertise them as such. Some call them "arts fest" or "music fest," while others disguise them as something else along those lines. Back home, Lawrence University has Celebration!. In Wonder Boys they had Word Fest. Here at the University of Minnesota they do have celebrations which come close to these festivals, but they operate under no such artistic pretenses. I mean, we have Homecoming, Winterfest, and Spring Jam, but as everyone knows, these are quite obviously only excuses for the U to officially condone drinking by the Greeks and Greek-wannabes for an entire week.

I think what I'm saying is that I need to help the University establish an academicly-inspired 3-day festival. Preferably this little shindig would take place in early to mid summer, although I could live with something in spring. Being in Minnesota, winter is right out, while fall already has too many things going on to deserve my little festival. Theoretically we could get visiting professors to present papers, but that would be little but a sideshow to the real attraction of the weekend: the drinking.

Anybody else interested in this undertaking? Anybody else want to help me help the U establish an annual weekend of drinking and debauchery? I think I could go for a beer right now.