Oh, HEY Now!

Much of the Junior class was rather miffed this past Thursday when they received an e-mail from Class President Jibran Khan that included an image of this year's "selected" Hey Day t-shirt. Why's this, you ask? Because this is the first time in recent history that the t-shirt has not been selected by a student vote.

But democracy will prevail! Supposedly, unhappy campers have joined forces and are printing an alternate T-shirt that they believe would have won had votes been cast. Two shirts!? What happened to Hey Day being all about class u-n-i-t-y? Perhaps an election would have been more fair, but if these shirts mean we now have to buy into the whole "2012" thing, then we really don't want the Junior class to graduate (plus, the Cheeto design was our favorite).

The Class Board explains why there was no vote in a follow-up email after the jump.

To clarify - the Hey Day T-shirt selection process was done this year in collaboration with members of the Office of Student Affairs and other University stakeholders. The voting process observed previously was only initiated in recent years and every year where it has taken place, the consequences were absolutely atrocious: the system had been hacked, votes were skewed, the site crashed, and various other problem made the online voting process not only a nightmare to run but provided inaccurate results. Office of Student Affairs did not want those same problems to continue this year - hence the change in the selection process.