TUE 8 MAR 2005
Tower’s annual ‘Arctic Luau’ sizzles
By Nafisa NaikArgonaut Staff
Theophilus Tower had its annual Arctic Luau Saturday on the Wallace Complex volleyball courts.
Tower residents and resident assistants enjoyed a sunny afternoon with lots of games, activities and food. The Arctic Luau is put on by the tower resident assistants every year.
Jared Desjarlais / ARGONAUT - Carl Niggemyer grills some burgers for an ever-growing line at the Arctic Luau Saturday afternoon between Theophilus Tower and Wallace.
There was an ongoing barbecue to serve students hamburgers as they came in hordes to the event.
“I’m not sure about the exact figure, but I think there were about 200 people at least,” Hutton said.
Many activities greeted those students who actually woke up at 11 a.m. to attend the event, including a hula hooping contest, a sand castle building contest, a lei toss, a coconut bowling contest and a pineapple eating contest.
The winners of each contest won T-shirts, and participants won tickets to the raffle at the end. The raffle also gave out an iPod, some beach towels, tennis rackets, balls and other outdoor goodies.
“I thought it worked well and was fun. I almost didn’t make it though, and I dragged myself to it as I had just woken up, but it was fun. I got some free stuff from it. I got a Ninja Turtle kite from the raffle,” said freshman Alex Thornburg, a Graham Hall resident.
Derrick Saurez, who was eating and playing volleyball, agreed.
“It was a lot of fun with everybody coming together. We never do stuff with the whole of the tower and just do programs with our hall or floor, so this was very cool,” Saurez said.
Thornburg and Ryan West, also from Graham Hall, designed the T-shirts for the luau. The shirts were powder blue and had a penguin wearing a Hawaiian shirt, glasses and lei.
“I designed the letters for the shirts, and the image was done by Alex. The prize was the movie passes for $7.50,” said West.
Suarez said the RAs did a good job.
Hutton praised her RAs and the tower residents.
“I want to say a special thank-you to the tower staff for doing such a good job and making this happen and residents for participating and supporting us.”
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