Despite our differences, we Columbia students can all agree on one thing – our love for the Tree Lighting Ceremony. But why not share the love? Why limit our happiness to only one crowded, overpopulated event? In honor of the holiday cheer and the unsurprisingly long lines at last week’s Tree Lighting Ceremony, here are three other things we thought we should put lights on (and have corresponding lighting ceremonies for). 

1. The TarpsJust like the bare, leafless trees, the tarps on the CU lawns are another inevitable event in the yearly succession of seasons. While the tarps themselves can be depressing, I personally think that a tarp lighting ceremony would provide a feasible and easy solution to bringing some holiday cheer to Columbia.

2. Alma. The obvious choice. We already have CU Glow, that one “pretty fun” NSOP event in which freshmen deck themselves out in glowsticks and nod their heads halfheartedly to club music around a similarly glowstick-donning Alma. Alma lighting ceremony would simply be the natural next step.

3. Deantini. In line with our recent commodification of meeting our deans as a selling point for events, why don’t we capitalize on this apparently successful marketing tactic by making a lighting event just for him? Deantini has holiday cheer too. Dare I say, he’s just like us!

Alma via Nowhereman86 under Creative Commons

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