Finally, the Associated Student Government has achieved a measure of success in its neverending quest to achieve community.

All it took were some cheap hoodies and t-shirts.

Last year, ASG proposed a student-designed NU hoodie to provide a cheap alternative to expensive bookstore merchandise.

While the idea came from ASG, the design featuring The Arch and the Chicago skyline came from Weinberg senior Hyeong-rak Youn, a non-ASG affiliated student who answered ASG’s campuswide call for design entries.

What a refreshing change. Instead of having to hear cries for community from administrators and ASG officials, an average Joe took ASG’s challenge and took a step towards solving the community equation.

This grassroots campaign represents the exact strategy NU should pursue when trying to strengthen community: Leave it to the students.

Community has been the impossible dream of many a suit in the Norris University Center.

Anyone looking at the Ryan Field student section on Saturday could plainly see united students taking pride in their Wildcats.

Maybe community wasn’t achieved on Saturday but something much stronger: school spirit.

It’s not a utopia, but we’ll take it.

And most importantly, the hoodies actually looked good.