Every week the editorial board reflects on a current issue in Our View. The position taken does not reflect the opinions of everyone on the Hilltop Views staff.

The University of Texas at Austin can keep their dead week.  We want St. Ed’s week: a week dedicated to enjoying the beauty of our majestic campus; a week dedicated to petting campus cats.

We want a week to drink Jo’s and cry about our future college debt. 

We want a week to enjoy the weather of Austin, when it, hopefully, is not hot as hell or cold as the arctic.

It would be preferable to have a week to park anywhere we like within camping parking limits (even President George Martin’s spot), with the freedom to avoid heinous ticket prices and the ability to ghost ride the whip with peers.

It would be extremely satisfying if the cafeteria would not play oldies (sorry Madonna), and instead play the latest Skrillex or Hilary Duff.

We, the people, demand to have more time to rest.

We have a dream. 

We have a dream that, one day, this university will rise up and say no immediate testing. 

We want to dream and not go to lectures. Some of us even want to study.

Schools such as Texas State University and UT have a dead week. 

As the hipster of schools, we acknowledge St. Edward’s does not want to jump on the bandwagon. 

We encourage you to think of the positives. Think of how much vinyl we can listen to during dead week.

Aside from the outrageous amount of Polaroid photos you can take and eclectic music listening you can get in, dead week can have educational value.

In fact, it fits within our liberal arts indoctrination and education, as this extra time will allow students to study more, panic less and think critically about the information they were taught during the semester.

Students who have projects and research papers due around the same time as finals may find themselves panicking. 

Instead of feeling confident about tests, students are forced to pick the subjects they have time to study and the papers they have time to do.

A dead week would mean that students have time to complete required work for all classes and rest up before a week of sweat, tears and coffee.

As the student newspaper, it only makes sense that we focused on the student perspective. But, professors could benefit as well.

Instead of forcing themselves  to stay up late to catch up on grading or making themselves available to answer smart and stupid questions alike, professors can hold office hours. 

Professors could help struggling students while not feeling pressure to get grades in order.

Professors could even use this week for downtime, becasuse they deserve it too.

We demand a festivus for the rest of us St. Edwardians. We demand St. Ed’s week.