The front of the Cisler Centre is the site for the annual snowman burning this Friday at noon. The LSSU tradition began in 1971, when former public relations director Bill Rabe decided that the Eastern Upper Peninsula and Northern Ontario would welcome a ceremony that ushered out winter and welcomed spring. It was also inspired by the Rose Sunday Festival in Germany, where a straw snowman was burned at a central location — and spring would officially arrive. The Lake State event will also include poetry readings as a torch is applied to the snowman.

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