Zonker Harris Day -- in peril

Apparently the reslife team at Wesleyan is threatening to cut funding for Zonker Harris Day if the name isn't changed.

ResLife looked at a wikipedia page outlining Zonker Harris (a character from Doonesbury) and his past drug use, and decided that giving ResLife funding for this would be a bad idea if the name were to stay the same. This really didn't go over all that well, especially considering that Zonker Harris Day is mentioned in dozens of college search guides, and because the character hasn't done drugs in probably fifteen years (in fact, the first time i realized what a huge drug reference Zonker used to be was a strip where he laments the fact that his plants don't talk back to him anymore, to which one of the plants replies "it was the drugs, man.") Psychedelic drug use is no longer associated with the name of the festival. The event named Zonker Harris Day is already synonymous with assorted drug shenanigans, and a name change won't do anything to change that.

"Psychedelic drug use is no longer associated with the name of the festival" -- what -- what school do YOU go to?

This may not actually reflect accurate information...and let's hope not.

We should do something about it!