After hours of poring over notes, textbooks and quizzes, the bloodshot eyes of University students have widened at the finals week madness that’s accompanied their exams in the past couple of semesters.
The University garnered national attention for spontaneous events that happened on campus during finals week in the past year, such as a viral YouTube video titled “Girl freaks out about pizza” from one year ago and a graduate student announcing his plans to burn an American flag on the Parade Ground during the finals week of the spring semester.
The viral YouTube video, which now has more than 1 million views, featured Sara Reed, a general studies junior at the time, complaining about the way the workers at the Papa John’s at Outtakes were preparing her pizza and reacting violently to laughing bystanders.
Reed earned the nickname “Pizza Girl” from the widespread viewership of the video and was featured on CNN anchor Anderson Cooper’s “The RidicuList,” as well as websites like Perez Hilton and Comedy Central, among others.
Reed, who declined to comment for this story, told The Daily Reveille in December 2010 that the incident caused her stress and unwarranted attacks by students.
“My family and I have been verbally harassed with vicious remarks and unfounded accusations, and I have been followed several times by students trying to take pictures,” Reed said last year.
Dean of Students K.C. White said students should be sensitive to the circumstances of others during the high-stress week.
“Be kind to yourself, but be kind to other people because you just don’t know what kind of stressors are going on in their life,” White said.
Animal sciences and technology senior BJ Greenwood said the Pizza Girl incident was one of his most memorable finals week moments because his friends in Utah called him about the video after seeing it on “The