Life takes us on a roller coaster of adventures. For 30,000 of us, our current adventures are centered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There are endless adventures to take part in; many of them are common and some a little less. We've all jumped around at Badger games, sat on the Terrace and eaten late night Ian's or Greenbush. We don’t even realize how great these moments are until they pass, but looking back, we find that it’s the most unintentional adventures that set our Wisconsin experience apart from the rest.
Three young men on this campus (Josh S., Matt K. and Nick V.) have set the bar substantially high for creating a unique Wisconsin experience. (Note: Hey Badger Herald, add this to the Bucky List.) While Saint Paul’s University Catholic Center is being rebuilt for the next 18 months, the guys kindly volunteered* to hold onto the church’s foosball table. But how could one harmlessly haul a foosball table across campus by the light of the moon without pause? I mean, you’ll have to set the table down to rest eventually, so you might as well take a nice, long game break.
*Dibs, persuasion and seniority were also key components in acquiring the foosball table
They hauled the foosball table out onto East Campus Mall and played a couple of friendly rounds; it aligned with the glow of the capitol beyond one end of the table and the luminescent reflection of Bascom Hill past the other. Then the came wild idea of continuing the game at the feet of the 16th president, because why the hell not? They then succeeded to scale Bascom hauling a 40-pound foosball table, to compete in the most epic game of table soccer in their lives, on an adventure that they had no idea was coming an hour earlier.
And so, my dear Badgers, I dare you. I dare you to create unique adventures all your own. You’ll never look back on these moments with regret, but with pride at all of the crazy shenanigans you pulled "back in the day." Make your time at Wisconsin the best adventure yet, because your final University of Wisconsin adventure of sitting on Abe’s lap is much closer than you think.
