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It was around 9A.M. on a Tuesday as students began to flutter towards two large flat screen TVs at the entrance of the Bernhard Center. Some with coffee, others bursting with strange pre-10A.M. energy that only belongs to freshmen or people with an Adderall prescription. Few could divert their attention away from the glowing monitors for more than a quick second. One could argue we were like moths, but moths usually have a flame or a jittery light bulb; all we were staring at was a countdown clock. It could have been a bomb for all we knew. It seems one either had no idea what Operation Historic Moment was by the time it happened, or you had already heard enough of it days before it was set to occur. It had a truly bizarre sense of promoting itself: guys in gold body suits (think greenman, but gold like it was from a gay bar’s promo wardrobe) carried ten feet long poles with signs telling of Operation Historic Moment looming in the future like an asteroid hitting campus. Other than that, it seems promotions were relatively subtle. Yes, there was press on the commotion but there wasn’t any big fuss on Western’s homepage or GoWMU, just an email list one could sign up for on Operation Historic Moment’s webpage. Obviously this would be a historic moment, but now it was like it was going to be an exclusive VIP historic moment. You had to know a guy who knew a guy to get in on this dank history. As the timer on the flat screen neared its historic conclusion, the amount of people swelled to nearly 100 inside the now-small lobby of the Bernhard center. This was the only tangible location one could go to watch it other than streaming it live from OHM’s website, so a sense of superiority filled the air, like we were there for it man! This is our Woodstock bro! Then the timer stopped and everyone blankly stared at the monitor as nothing happened. The screen stayed blank for a few minutes, and then the webcast of Dunn shot on for a second, and then crashed again. “Hit F5!” someone yelled, but nothingness continued to fill the void white screen as people began to shuffle out in small flocks.
Eddie Tours wrote this
A student would have to give no shits about Western if they have not heard by now, but WMU clearly had a historic donation announced on that day. $100 million dollars donated for any purpose is amazing, let alone for a university that stands in the shadow of two, dare I say, more historic Michigan universities. It also goes without saying that a private medical school will add nothing but prestige to WMU in the future, and for those with degrees from the university. One realization couldn’t be escaped though: why was everyone so damn smug about this? Around 9:45 or so in the Bernhard Center, word had leaked about the donation amongst those who stuck around. Reactions ranged from “Well, I’m already a student here so who cares?” to “I woke up this early for this?” We all know that school spirit is as fictional as an honest reality show, but is it impossible to be slightly happy for something that doesn’t involve you? Students alone can’t be crucified here: the title “Operation Historic Moment” implied that the university had done something historic. After all, it was an “Operation,” with a capital “O,” but that Operation was performed by the person donating, not the school. Not to view this awesome gift through a pessimistic filter, but the donator did all of the heavy lifting in this act, WMU just caught the bag of cash. It’s like having your parents buy you the 7th largest mansion as a wedding gift and turning to your wife with hysterics yelping “We did it! WE DID IT SYLVIA! Let’s make some KIDS!” The legacy of this donation will surely obscure any silly event used to promote it. As stated prior, no amount of snobbery will prevent this from meaning great things for the future of this up-and-coming university, but it should serve as a lesson in humility. There’s a time to be prideful and there’s definitely a time to be a belligerent braggart. Not to say that the students or faculty were 100% either of these in the early hours of March 22nd, but attitudes were shown that will hopefully not go down in the history of the moment.