It’s been two years since Cats fans have let themselves go wild to “Put Your Hands Up (in the air).” But there has been a changing of the guard. NU Athletics replaced the fourth quarter tradition last season with “Let Me Clear My Throat,” but that experiment did not end well. Instead, the final quarter of tomorrow’s season-opener against Nevada will instead begin with Steve Aoki’s and Laidback Luke’s “Turbulence.”
That’s right. Northwestern Wildside announced Thursday that the beloved sight of the NU student section flailing their arms for a seemingly endless period of time will soon be replaced with the viewing pleasure of a mosh pit of former high-school valedictorians “hitting turbulence.