Lisa LaFleur, music education sophomore, said the media played a big role. She thought people were generally sick of the new millennium talk, and that was enough to dull their enthusiasm for this year's festivities. Tyler Drinkwine, political science junior, said the media influenced people to party it up in 2000. No one cared about inaccuracy. Parker Hutchinson, a Tulane freshman, said the date change might have freaked out some simple-minded people.
People use any excuse to celebrate and that was an excuse.
John Yadamec, business management sophomore, agreed that people were fascinated by the change from the 1900s to the 2000s and overlooked that it wasn't officially a new millennium. Yadamec also thought people did party, but the public didn't notice it as much because it wasn't as publicized as last year. Janel Glynn, general studies freshman, said 2000 was so huge it made 2001 pass . She said that people might not have overreacted if they had realized 2001 is the actual millennium. She, like Hutchinson, said that people were looking for an excuse to party.