The Sandspur

Issue date: 4/8/05 Section: Arts & Entertainment

Media Credit: Lara Bueso

One week down, still no Fox Day. While we all know it's just around the corner, we don't know when exactly it will arrive. Students all over campus claim they can figure out just what day Fox Day will fall on, yet President Duncan is really the only one who knows, if he even does at this point.

So what exactly is the secret formula for figuring out when this elusive day will arrive? Is the formula that there isn't a formula? Or is Fox Day being carefully plotted right now? Let's see what you thought.

So why exactly wasn't Fox Day this week? Each day this week, there was a different event scheduled in preparation for President Duncan's inauguration, which takes place tomorrow, Saturday the ninth, and President Duncan didn't want to announce Fox Day until he was officially President of Rollins.

How about next week? The week of the eleventh through the fifteenth seems to be the hot spot for student predictions. Sophomore Susan Frantz thinks it will be Monday, the eleventh, because "the President may want a nice, three-day weekend after his inauguration." Rumors have been running rampant that the thirteenth will be the lucky day because, apparently, the school ordered buses to bring us all to the beach. Again, this is just the rumor. According to Nicole Counsell, Fox Day will fall on Friday the fifteenth because "He'll want to make a good impression on us by giving us a three day weekend before we start buckling down for exam preparation." Not a bad thought Nicole!

The next week, the eighteenth through the twenty-second, though thought to be less likely, still holds some possibilities. If it does fall on this week, the big pick is Wednesday the twentieth, smack in the middle of the week. Why? Shivali Patel chose this day because "while it makes us wait a long time, it will be sure to break up the work for the week on a Wednesday. And besides, it's my room number!" It's not a science, just a prediction.

Students and professors alike are all in agreement that the last week is out of the question. "Too close to exams!" they all say. So will President Duncan prove us right, or will he really make us wait that long?

In the end, everyone has their opinions and reasoning, but does anyone really know? So go ahead students: make predictions, start a pool, bet lunch on it, and see how you do. Whatever happens, Fox Day never fails to bring good times and great memories with friends. So even if you guess wrong, don't mope for too long; head to the beach and get wrapped up in the excitement.

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