The Office of Student Activities (OSA) announced this year’s Thank Goodness It’s Spring (TGIS) theme: #epic. Students are encouraged to make suggestions for TGIS events and activities by using the hashtag #TGISepic on Twitter and Facebook.

This choice of theme requires more student involvement than in past years. “We are doing this so that we aren’t just picking what we think would be cool but what the students of Elizabethtown College actually want,” junior and OSA Office Coordinator Lauren Klein said.

The #epic theme is less specific than others — for example, last year’s Saints and Sinners theme — to allow for more student interpretation. “We left the theme more open so students can really have a voice in deciding what happens during TGIS,” Klein said. “We want students to get involved and connected with OSA through our multiple forms of social media. Overall, we just want to give students what they want, within reason of course.”

The 2014 TGIS weekend will be the 40th annual spring festival at Etown. TGIS is an Etown tradition consisting of a series of events and activities held for students one weekend in April. The 2014 TGIS weekend will include a picnic on Saturday, April 26 and other events yet to be determined.