Dear internet,

Today, I must have been struck by a bolt of lightening or touched by deity. I have had the idea of a lifetime.

This summer, the state college I’ve been attending for the last few years was awarded the status of ‘university.’  Campus has been all aflutter with the excitement and anticipation. What lay in store for us now that Utah Valley State College was invited to sit at the cool lunch table with the other big time universities?  Would we get invited to play in an NCAA conference?  Would we finally get a football team?  Would we start growing hair in strange places?

Even the campus itself has begun to see changes.  New statues and banners grace the halls and walkways and the blue and red rival college shirts worn by students have been exchanged for those of the newly titled Utah Valley University (UVU).

Perhaps the most noticeable change on campus is the new library whose construction was completed only a few weeks ago after over a year of labor and toil. The thing is huge.  It’s 5 stories full of… well.. mostly emptiness because the old library didn’t hold many books.  But now they’re trying to fill the new one with books, and that’s good – especially for our rain forests.  It is in this very library that ‘the idea’ came to me.

One of the cool features of the new library are the study rooms on each floor.  The vast majority of these rooms sport signs next to each door stating that the room ‘has not yet been named yet,’ followed by a name and phone number to contact for naming details.  My buddies and I began to joke about how cool it would be to name a room.  So, I called the number.

As I was suspecting, naming a room requires the ‘donation’ of vast sums of money. (Vast sums = anywhere from $5,000 for a small room to $1,000,000 for a large room.)  The more we thought about it, however, the less money became a deterrent… especially when ‘the idea’ shot forth out of my mouth like the glorious geyser, Old Faithful, shoots out of the crust of the earth.

“Why don’t we name the room after America Stephen Colbert?” I asked.

The question was met with triumphant shouts of approval.

And so, my new life’s quest has been laid out.  As of today, I am taking donations to raise enough money to pay UVU to name a room in their new library after America Stephen Colbert!

Obviously the ultimate goal is to raise a solid $1,000,000… however, I am satisfied with $5,000.  I will be activating an account on donation website soon.  Keep your eyes open for more posts to come.  Please leave any supportive suggestions, comments or ideas in the comments section of this post.

Together we can do this for our children and our children’s children.  Together we can do this for America Stephen Colbert.
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