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Editor's Note
4:00 am Jan 22 - by Tommy Trafton – buzz Editor-in-Chief
And … the University is back in action. All of the kids are back walking around Green Street stuffing their T.I.S. bags with a collection of $200, 500 paged, three pound textbooks. Fleets of MTD buses repopulate the roads while jaywalking tickets are handed out like candy and protesters and club presidents dress up in costumes wandering around the quad getting people to play their outrageous games.
How come I never noticed how strange this town is until school is back in session? The campus is a carnival that we seem to slowly become oblivious to as the semester goes on and the studying piles up. The quad is a large circus stage with its audience trapped in the classrooms of Lincoln Hall and the English Building.
Maybe that’s why break was such a nice change of pace. Everything in CU seemed quieter, cozier and just plain sane. Sometimes it’s easy for students and professors to get so caught up in the academic festivities of test taking and e-mailing that they take for granted what the town has to offer outside of future opportunities elsewhere. There is a sense of permanence here and while the building of Mike ‘n Molly’s at 105 N. Market Street isn’t quite 200 years old, there is definitely a history that makes CU stand for itself outside of the school.
It was apparent over break, but now school is back in session and things will be hectic again. I guess that’s what you have to expect of a college town. Green Street is either a ghost town or a zoo. At least the businesses stay open past 5 again.
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