(nyunews.com)

When I lived in the Quad during my freshman year, the two most irritating wake-up calls were the Penn Band marching past my window before football games and the Spring Fling 9 a.m. sound checks.

But the RAs in NYU’s Weinstein Hall have one-upped any dorm distractions at Penn. They turned the building’s windows into a giant Connect Four board as the final round of NYU’s “Dorm Wars,” a month-long series of competitions held in each freshman dorm.

If I were a Weinstein resident, I would feel like NYU freshman Michael Bliss, who told the University’s Washington Square News, “It was definitely not good that they came and woke me up just to hang up things in my window.”

However, inconveniences aside, I have to admit that this is incredibly cool. We don’t have freshman-only halls here at Penn, but that’s no reason we can’t come up with some more creative ways to make life on campus a little more fun and keep us all united. After all, College Houses and classes are rarely united. The only time the entire campus comes together is Spring Fling.

As Weinstein RA and NYU junior Jorge Hernandez put it, the game “[brought] us together as a community just by seeing all the people out here watching.”

Sounds good to me. We need activities like this for our College House system and our comunity–as long as they start after noon, of course.

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