Slippin’ And Slidin’ Into Summer

by Heather Riley

edited by Joseph Landini

The warm weather brought out much of the campus for the first annual field day put on by Residential Life on Thursday in front of Cheshire Hall.

As the year begins to unwind, Residential Life was looking for a way to bring the student body together once more before leaving for the summer break.  Residential Life had decided to go with a field day since the weather has started to warm up.  The events started at 3 p.m. and lasted until 7 p.m.  More than twenty-five staff members including CA’s, ED’s and other residential life spent about 3 or 4 weeks planning and putting this event together.  All staff members were assigned different areas to supervise. 

Nothing like a slip-n-slide on a warm day

The field day event included various activities for the students to participate in such as a slip-n-slide, volleyball, frisbee, football, egg toss, bocci ball, hula hoops, tug-of-war, the ever popular jello wrestling and multiple relay races.  There were also free t-shirts being distributed for the students as well as cotton candy.  Music was also played for everyone to hear while enjoying their time.  Deciding what events to choose was no easy task.  “During out meetings, all the CA’s were asked what events should be included.  Everyone came up with a lot of ideas and the ED’s decided on the top ones to use,” said junior and CA Manjunath Burdekar.

 At just 4 p.m. all of the free t-shirts were given out to the over one hundred students that had decided to take part in the festivities.  “It was awesome, probably the best thing Res Life has done,” said freshman Saskia Joseph.  Residential Life was pleased with the outcome of the field day events and was impressed to see how many students had shown up.  “It worked out to be a beautiful day and everyone’s having a good time, which is what it is all about,” said Experience Director Chris Johnson.  The event had so much to offer the students that it appealed to everyone.  “Residential Life never really has campus wide events for everyone, which is why we did this. We are glad the weather turned out to be nice,” said senior CA Kristine Thayer.  According to Thayer, Residential Life is planning on holding another field day event next year in both the fall and the spring. 

The highlight of the field day events was jello wrestling

All of the prizes, candy and certificates were all given by Residential Life for all those that participated in the relay races.  “The relay races went great,” said Burdekar, “we just wanted people to have fun.”  One of the biggest hits of the evening was the jello wrestling.  “A lot of people had a lot of fun, especially with the jello wrestling,” said freshman Brittany Lew.  Overall, the event was looked at as a good time with a good turnout. There were well over two hundred students in attendance by the end of the evening.  Even though the light rain showers caused the staff to close up some of the activities, many students came back for s’mores at 7 p.m. Most students thought that the idea of holding a field day was a good tradition to start.  “It was a wonderful opportunity for students to come together and socialize,” said senior Simon Dreyfuss.

For more information about the field day that took place or other upcoming events, contact Residential Life at extension 4176.