Getting woken up by screaming teenagers at 5 a.m. may sound awful to some, but to junior Emily Hinz, it was beyond exciting.

“I got woken up at 5 a.m. to cameras flashing and people screaming and yelling at me to get up,” Hinz said. “They gave us funny code names and we had to remember the time we got woken up at for games later.”

Senior Echowan editor in chief Anline Lezama said wake-ups is an Echowan tradition where the current editors wake up the next year’s major staffers early in the morning, then play team games, eat breakfast and announce positions.

“Wan started wakeups when the publication first started and it’s just a fun way for current editors to bond and to initiate new editors, along with bonding as a group,” Lezama said.

According to Lezama, wake-ups took place on early Thursday March 19, where they woke up new editors between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m.

Hinz said the tradition is extremely exciting and gives the new editors something to look forward to for the next year.

“It’s just very exciting to find out that we are going to be in charge of the big decisions for next year’s book and be able to make it our own,” Hinz said.