Valeria ReyesEvery day as I walk around campus — whether up the hill or between classes — my mind returns to the same perplexing thought: Colgate University has a ginger problem. Not “ginger” as in the spice used in trendy kombucha, but ginger as in the red-headed, freckled, Vitamin D-deficient population who have multiplied at an alarming rate in recent semesters. Colgate, with its statistically unmatched quantity of flame-haired students, has failed to organize the most obvious campus tradition. Until such an event is instituted, however, the ginger population will remain under-recognized and under-utilized, which I believe is a wasted marketing opportunity for Admissions, if not a public health hazard. Due to the administration’s reluctance to address this head-on, Colgate’s ginger problem will remain an open secret, glowing (literally) under the Hamilton sun.