By Harley Harasty, Contributing Writer
For Susquehanna students, the Student Activities Committee’s (SAC) annual Fall Frenzy kicks off the season with gigantic inflatable obstacles and an outdoor feast.
On Sept. 9, students celebrated one of the last warm days of summer cooling off on a water slide, riding a mechanical shark and competing with their friends on blow-up obstacle courses.
There was even an inflatable area that allowed students to test their agility against other students’ aiming ability. One student was pitted behind a mesh net with holes while other students tried to hit the person with soft-hitting rubber balls.
The Fall Frenzy is organized each year by the SAC executives, who hire a company to fill up the field outside of the Degenstein Center with inflatable activities. Students were able to race their friends on an X-Games-style obstacle course, shoot at one another on the Running Man and even box one another with ridiculously large boxing gloves.
Senior Bianca DiTrolio, president of SAC, described Fall Frenzy as a “welcome back, fun event for students to attend with their friends,” which both new and returning students alike participated in.
As the evening drew to an end, Aramark provided a complementary barbecue-style dinner that included meatball hoagies, home- made mac and cheese, hamburgers, and barbecue chicken.
For dessert, Aramark offered a variety of desserts, including ice cream. While many students ate at the tables set up by the dining hall, others heaped their plates and headed for the shade of the trees along the field.
First-year Kayla Brown described the event as “a delicious, fun-filled way to mingle with new classmates.”
Justin Strumpf, another first-year, said, “Fall Frenzy helped me meet more [first- years] and realize that I could never win a boxing match.”
The Student Activities Committee will hold many more events throughout the academic year.
Previous and upcoming events include a visit from comedian Lafayette Wright in Charlie’s Coffee House on Sept. 14. He will be the second comedian to appear this semester after Pete Lee earlier this year.
The fall concert will take place on Sept. 16, where country singers Dan and Shay will put on
a live performance on Degenstein lawn. Their concert will be opened by Devin Dawson.
Event planners for the concert say that there are volunteer hours available for students who wish to help out setting up the concert on Saturday. The Student Activities Committee will be accepting volunteers between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
On Sept. 20 in Weber Chapel, Ken Nwadike, inspirational speaker and renowned peace activist, will speak on behalf of his campaign, the Free Hugs Project.
As per an e-mail from Leadership and Engagement coordinator, Beth Winger, Nwadike is trying to help heal and narrow the social, political and racial divide that currently exists in our country.
For students interested in getting involved with campus life, SAC holds meetings each Monday at 9 p.m. in the Degenstein meeting rooms.
