When former Sun Associate Arts Editor Rebecca Weiss ’09 sent me a text message last spring asking me if I wanted to go on an “all expenses paid trip to France,” I promptly ignored her.

Those of you who read her Weiss-a-roni column last year might have seen the silly language and ridiculous ideas and guessed, as I did, that it was just another of Rebecca’s practical jokes. But two weeks later, when Rebecca called to ask why I hadn’t gotten back to her, I realized she was serious.