It’s time for another appearance of the Dowdometer, where we gauge how GUSA President Pat Dowd is living up to expectations. He’s a pumpkin today in honor of his fall giveaway. Despite being a happy pumpkin, Pat is still floating under the red expectations bar, just like last time!
First of all, the much-vaunted pumpkin party fell apart. While it was sweet seeing him cut a monster pumpkin in John Carroll’s lap, GUSA Grassroots members soon left their posts and a swarm of students made off with the pumpkins.
As of 4:35 GUSA’s pagan celebration had fallen apart and people were just taking pumpkins. I don’t know if that’s GUSA-sanctioned or the wisdom of crowds, but it doesn’t bode well for tomorrow’s Dowdometer.
If you’ve just come into several of GUSA’s pumpkins, you have some options besides cutting them:
Drop your pumpkin off a tall building. Obviously, make sure no one’s around, and clean up the mess afterward. But imagine the explosion. For extra Halloween fun, make it the MSB building.
Scoop out the seeds and cook them. They’re delicious, and you can combine this with dropping them off a building.
Cover your pumpkin in a white sheet and roll it down a hill. It will look like a small ghost.
GUSA president Pat Dowd and his friends/foot soldiers in GUSA Grassroots are setting up pumpkin carving tables on Healy Lawn today. They’re providing the pumpkins, so you only have to bring your Thomas Friedman blueprints and enthusiasm. At night they’ll light up the pumpkins, and one source tells me the winning pumpkin will end up in John Carroll’s lap.
It’s all to promote GUSA Summer Fellows (what else?), but free stuff is always welcome. Plus, this is the perfect reason to break out the Dowdometer.
Vox Populi is the staff blog of the Georgetown Voice, a weekly newsmagazine at Georgetown University. Opinions expressed in posts are those of their author alone unless otherwise stated.
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