Technician‘s Stats86 years youngTurn ons: Wolfpack red, yelling at basketball games, engineering, hot Latin nights abroadTurn offs: Smoking, people who use the term “guesstimate,” self-horn tooting

Today we are going to do something we find some repugnant. We really hate it when people toot their own horns when they are right about something, BUT we have to give it up to ourselves on our call about Campout.

Let’s go back just a couple weeks ago to the Technician editorial on Jan. 30. It reads, “The truth is that if it turns out that a Campout for the much more important Carolina game will not happen because we already had one for the Maryland game, it will be very disappointing. Campout is a tradition that so many students hold dear and to waste it because the Athletics Department was afraid no one would show on Super Bowl Sunday is a waste of one of only a few Campouts we as students are entitled to.”

We salute you athletics department and student government even more than we salute ourselves. Job well done.

One-thousand-four-hundred students braved the not-even-close-to-arctic temperatures to have fun smashing cars, watching movies, eating pizza and barbeque, and streaking as much as was humanly possible in February. Here’s to you dudes who ran around with your shirts off.

Now compared to the last campout that was, in no other better terms, a complete failure, this campout brought out the good clean fun we try to have at least once a year.

From now on, let’s try to plan our campouts using this as the model. Pick the games that are going to draw the biggest crowds so we won’t have a repeat of what will now be referred to as “The Maryland Incident,” and no we aren’t talking about that year crab cakes skyrocketed in price. Thankfully, that only lasted that one year — imitation crab is just not the same, we don’t care how you season it. Just kidding of course.

You know, 1400 students is a lot and covering almost the entire area around Dunn Avenue and the Talley courtyard is pretty good, but next year lets strive for more. Campout is one of our few traditions that draw many participants, and it is refreshing to see it grow and be so successful.

So again, great job athletics department, student government and all the students who came out.