I'm all for tradition, but I think it's time we add the name of a musician to the Butler facade. Yeah, Plato, Sophocles, and Shakespeare are fine and dandy, but what Columbia really needs is to witness the immortalization of music in stone. Obviously, the question of whom to include is rather difficult: How do we decide between Mozart, Beethoven, McCartney, or Dylan? Well, I came across a truly ground-shaking realization the other day.
One fateful Thursday afternoon, I was surfing YouTube (not in class, of course—don't be absurd!) when I came across the music video for a musical composition entitled "Call Me Maybe." I have watched it dozens of times since, and I am now unafraid of the contention that bubbled up in my brain the first time I heard the song.
Forget Mozart—put Carly Rae Jepsen's name on Butler Library.
