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This past Sunday, Ohio State Student Life made the drastic decision to tell students that Mirror Lake Jump 2013 was going to be university regulated. REGULATED. This piece of news sent the entire student body into an uproar. Mirror Lake Jump has always been a tradition that the university has never gotten involved in-the jump has always been an unregulated, unsanctioned, crazy, student-led event.
The university took these requlations very seriously…they decided to put up fences surrounding Mirror Lake and  recquired each student to obtain a wristband in order to jump. The decision to enforce wearing wristbands was especially unfair to all the Ohio State fans that do not have valid BuckID’s, and therefore were not able to obtain a wristband.
These strict regulations caused chaos among the student body. Even student body president Taylor Stepp took to his twitter to tweet such things as “I have and will continue to be opposed to the Mirror Lake regulations. This is our school, don’t sanction then restrict the event #LeaveMirrorLakeAlone.”
Inevitably, the only course of action for the students to take was to rebel. There were angry tweets, petitions, etc. circulating the internet in order to stop these restrictions. However, several people came up with the ingenious idea of Mirror Lake Monday. Why attend the regulated Mirror Lake jump when you could jump the night before without the university breathing down your back?
Naturally, Ohio State students made it happen. Although there were police blocking off all the fence openings Monday night, students rioted and pushed down the fences-causing the police to back down. Several hundreds, if not thousands, of students came out that night and jumped in.
I for one was not planning on jumping Monday night. However, after seeing hundreds of students rushing from their dorms to Mirror Lake, I decided to see what all the chaos was about. A spur of the moment decision ended with me jumping into the lake, twice, that night. And I truly do not regret a thing.
If you did not have the chance to jump into the lake Monday night, I hope you jumped in Tuesday night! Because, well, why not?
MUCK FICHIGAN! And GO BUCKS!
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