Mackenzie Hughes ‘25
Staff Writer
In the spirit of Easter, several Holy Cross organizations have orchestrated campus-wide Easter Eggs hunts. Dining Services kicked it off by planting origami figures in spots like Lower Kimball, the Stein Quad, and Cafe Babel. The Residence Hall Association similarly hosted another hunt to celebrate Duck Day on April 3rd. You’d think Res Life has bigger fish to fry, like laundry rooms flooding and whatnot, but I’m so happy they could find the time to scatter rubber duckies on campus and tease students with prizes. Why does Holy Cross want us to go hunting so badly? Is this a wild goose chase tactic to distract us from the tuition increase? If the school is really passionate about this hunting activity, I suggest stashing homework vouchers redeemable for one assignment skip. In any case, we’ve seen two Easter Egg-style hunts in the past month, which is two more than we’ve had any other month in the school’s history. Carrying on with this new tradition, the Knitting Club is putting together a hunt of their own next week. They will hide spools of yarn out and about, and if you collect them all, you’ll have enough to knit yourself a sweater! This is a genius marketing strategy to promote an otherwise unknown club on campus. Looking ahead to May, the Cheese Society will be conducting a hunt as well. This soon-to-be RSO plans on hiding samples of cheese in hopefully refrigerated and out-the-sun locations on campus. There is a strict deadline for the hunt of course, lest we ignore the Blue Cheese incident of ‘05 where graduation was ruined because someone left behind an old sandwich that stunk up the room. If students are successful, they could put a charcuterie board together themselves. I’m not sure why Holy Cross has chosen Easter Egg hunts as its preferred method of student activity, but as long as the GrubHub gift cards keep coming I find no issue with them.
Copy edited by Colette Potter
Image courtesy of the New York Times.
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