CAB
Kicks Off Fall with a Foam Drop
By Sheena Holland
A typical Thursday
evening at Cleveland State consists of students strolling to night classes, having
dinner at Chili’s, or trying to catch up on homework that has piled up over the
week – or occasionally getting blasted by foam cannons.
The front lawn of the
Music and Communication Building transformed into a dance floor made of bubbles
on Sept. 19 as the Campus Activities Board hosted Cleveland State’s first Foam
Drop event.
The Foam Drop had many
elements of a traditional dance party, complete with an energetic DJ on a stage,
a fog machine and heavy-duty speakers playing classic pop hits that could be
heard well down Euclid Avenue. However, the defining feature of this event was
that students who came near the stage were up to their knees – and sometimes
higher – in foam bubbles.
CAB’s Viking After Dark Chair
Ally Pavey and her assistant David Richeson-Orr orchestrated the event. A company
called Glowrage caught their eye during CAB’s annual trip to the National Association
of Campus Activities (NACA) convention, Pavey said.
Glowrage also does paint
parties along with foam ones, but Pavey wanted to bring an event to campus that
was different than anything CAB had done before.
“We have had sort of
similar things on campus such as Holi, which is the powder party, and a couple
years ago we did a paint party, but I had never seen something like foam,” Pavey
said. “I thought it’d be something a little bit different, and it kind of looked
fun from the picture. So, I wanted to give it a try and see how students
responded to it.”
According to Pavey, they
responded quite well. She had hit her goal in attendance before the sun even
went down.
“My goal was around 200,
so I'm at my goal, and hoping to even exceed it,” she said.
CAB also provided
Mitchell’s ice cream for attendees and set up various other games around the
lawn such as inflatable Twister, giant Jenga, and Connect Four.
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