Discuss “CarnEVIL?”

The Morewood parking lot has been narrowed by yellow CAUTION borders, fluorescent wristbands have replaced every band fan’s watch, and the Carnival promising to transport us to “Another Time and Place” has produced the kind of campus zeal typically reserved for non-dreary afternoons and misplaced art sculptures. With funnel cakes and rides that make you puke funnel cakes, Carnegie Mellon’s Carnival replica is a throwback to the traveling caravans of yore. All we need is an accordion-touting primate accompanying a bearded babe singing “Auld Lang Syne” and it will be just the vision Ray Bradbury had when he penned Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Around the world, countries like Denmark and Brazil hold Carnival-esque festivities...