Andy Norris has a history of crazy and memorable experiences at Northwestern.
During his freshman year, he and his first roommate, Taylor Mugge, had their first bonding moment after letting their room grow filthy. “We stayed up until four in the morning cleaning and watching the 1970s Street Fighter with Sonny Chiba.”
He continued this lively pattern into his sophomore year when he and a group of friends decided to launch a single firework that contained 30 rounds in the middle of the Green. It didn’t go as planned.
“When he lit the fuse, it instantly went off,” said Norris. “We were running away with flames shooting at us and a beacon of light showing us running away.”
As a freshman he also learned valuable lessons, such as that the October Rule was once a very real rule. “The upperclassmen thoroughly enjoyed keeping their promises,” said Norris.
As a Religion major, Norris hopes to become like Prof. John Vonder Bruegge, but not necessarily for the obvious reasons. “I would be able to one day decide to grow a massive beard and pull it off,” said Norris, “and then the next day, I could decide to shave it off and pull that off, too. Besides being ridiculously smart, of course.”
If Norris could choose to be an item on campus, he would choose to be a carpeted wall in West Hall. “I could separate people and at the same time, embrace each side.”
