Palooza Bonanza a hit
Joanna Doolan
Issue date: 9/26/07 Section: Campus Life
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This past week, a group of Castleton Community Advisors decided to host a "Palooza week," in which they offered to entertain the students they monitor. A different event was held each night in hopes of gathering as many students as possible to participate. Each event was meant to be simple, yet fun. The money for the week came out of a collective CA budget. The CA's tried to keep the cost as "cheap as possible with as much entertainment as we could," said Brianna Belden, CA of the fourth floor of Babcock.
The week started off with "Mocktail Monday," held in the informal lounge of the campus center from 8-10 PM. Brenna Nolan of Adams, Alison Lanay of Castleton and Kim Decker of Haskell stood behind a table stocker with juices, snacks and cups, ready to serve. The scene looked dismal at first, but soon students lined up to receive a sugar rimmed pink or green solo cup filled with ingredients of their choice. The mocktails were such a hit that mostly everyone went up for seconds.
"I found this to be a great idea for an event. Free drinks? Hell yeah," said sophomore Talia Roy.
Tuesday night's event was the "80's Super Rad Pool Party," located at the pool in Castleton Hall. The three CA's responsible for the party were Sarah Catanese of North House and Jake Rigopolous and Gordon Fields of Ellis. Going from 8-10 PM, students goofed off to the sounds of artists such as Journey. As the party started it seemed as if only guys to be in on the swimming shenanigans, but soon enough, the ladies arrived to get in on the action.
The Eating Contest of Wednesday proved to be quite the competition, hosted by Brianna Belden and Brad Castillo of Babcock, Heather Alley of Ellis, Evan Vomacka of Haskill and Megan Lafromboise of Audet House
The contest began in the amphitheater at 5PM when students began to woof down what was in front of them to the sounds of Modest Mouse and Vanilla Ice. There were four different eating events; Jello, gummy worms and dirt, "mystery meat" and chocolate pie. The majority of the contestants were male, though a few girls made a valiant effort.
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