Why, then, do they never seem to go away? Step into the average college apartment party and you're still likely to find a lava lamp or a large crowd dancing to the electric slide. The truth is that while these fads are supposed to die out as soon as they become old news, many of them resurface after a short time.
And that's when they really bother you.
Venues decided to find out some of Penn State's most hated fads that just won't go away. While responses ranged from nothing at all to entire decades, many students could not even think of an answer; no matter how worn-out a fad may become, it seems there's always going to be someone who can admit to still liking it.
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"I'd say hot pink and neon clothes from the '80s." — John O'Dell (senior-finance)
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"The '80s altogether. I don't want the '80s to come back at all." — Maria Ripepi (sophomore-architectural engineering)
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"Shag carpeting, because you can lose things forever in that stuff. It's impossible to get change out of there if you drop it. We lost our pet for two weeks; we had no idea where it was. It was stuck in the carpet." — Brendan Irving (sophomore-theatre)
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"I never want to see leggings or stirrups come back. It's a travesty." — Charis Kready (freshman-public relations)
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"Bellbottoms. I just don't like the look." — Brendan Schillo (junior-industrial engineering)
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"I don't want to see the time come back when everybody began to take swing dancing lessons in a quest to be original, and then quit when they saw that everyone else was doing the same thing." — J.P. Clayton (sophomore-psychology)
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"If anything came back, I wouldn't mind. I'm pretty much open to anything." — Bryant Nickisher (graduate-business management)
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"That tan, red and black plaid that appears on everything; shoes, hats, bags, scarves. . . It's everywhere. That wretched plaid." — Brandy Curry (freshman-communications)
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"I don't know. Everything I can think of already did come back." — Mike Chamberlain (sophomore-advertising)
— Compiled by Paul Weinstein
