While other universities (and New York) might be lighting massive Christmas trees in anticipation for this holiday season, there is a surprising lack of spirit and decor around Bucknell’s campus. Whatever you’re celebrating this December, whether it be Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or any other special holiday for you and your family, it deserves to have a place on campus. Thanksgiving was gifted with celebration in the shape of Cafsgiving, and the December holiday season deserves the same. 

If you are looking for some quaint holiday sights, downtown Lewisburg, adorned with lights, is a wonderful sight to see. Lewisburg after dark is quite the sight if one is in search of holiday spirit. There is one thing that might further stop our holiday cheer, though, which is the incoming cold weather that might stop us from going on walks. 

The freezing temperatures are no cause for celebration. It makes the walk to class all the much harder, and I worry for the day the paths decide to ice over. The treacherous walk up the hill to class is hard enough, let alone in freezing temperatures and a foot of snow. 

It wouldn’t be a proper Christmas without a classic dusting of snow, but I, for one, would like to save the cold winds for home, where I can sit in my warm kitchen sipping hot chocolate instead of in my dorm, studying for finals. 

There might only be one cure for the early seasonal depression we are all feeling: campus decor.

If there were wreaths decorating each sidewalk post and a 50-foot Christmas tree waiting to be lit on the Quad, I truly believe we might all feel a little bit more excited rolling into finals season. Deck the hallways with menorahs and dreidels, Christmas lights and more. The only thing left to do at this point is to decorate our own rooms, find a good fake Christmas tree and set up a Secret Santa between your friends. Certainly, any sense of holiday spirit would boost the mood in the next few upcoming weeks. Now I’m not sure, but if a Christmas tree were to magically appear in the Quad, it might brighten all of our spirits—and be the Christmas Miracle this campus needs.