Ball Brings Brightness

Snapshots went off non-stop on Nov. 20 at Webster
University s second annual Winter Ball as students stepped into a provided photo booth. This unique picture
experience, provided and hosted by Campus Activities,
Student Government Association and Residential Housing Association, was located outside of the University
Center Sunnen Lounge.
Even though the event started at 9:30 p.m., the majority of students didn t arrive until after 10 p.m. Many said they had to change after a night class, but the majority said it was because they wanted to arrive fashionably late.
Daniel Begus, a senior accounting major and Jenni Taylor, a freshman English and Spanish major got to the dance on time but sat outside by Freshens a while after the dance even started.
We re plotting our grand entrance, Taylor said.
They didn t go into the dance until after 10 p.m. and it took Cascada s Every Time We Touch to even get them into Sunnen.
Students came to the dance for a variety of reasons. Alexandria McCuien, a junior computer science major, said she dropped by because she wanted to have the chance to have a night out before work the next day and University of Missouri-St. Louis students Alisha Marshall,
a junior secondary education major, and Bryan Childress, a junior broadcast journalism major, said they came out to support Campus Activities, but also Nadia Battle, a junior broadcast journalism major, who helped organize the event.
Both Marshall and McCuien were amazed at the quality of the pictures the photo booth gave and planned to visit the booth multiple more times.
Begus and Taylor did have one incident with the photo booth.
We think the photo booth is such a cool idea, but we did have one small problem, Taylor said. We didn t realize it takes more than one picture and we were so unprepared. One of them is pretty inappropriate.
Last year, under the theme Winter Wonderland, there was a professional photographer taking
pictures and students could go online and purchase their pictures, Battle said. This year, however,
the idea for the photo booth came from the one that was set up during the flag football game during Homecoming
Week.
Another difference
from last year was that the event hosts bought their own food rather than having it catered
by Sodexo, Inc., and the group also decided not to charge attendance fees for students from other campuses. McCuien, who came with friends who don t attend WU, was glad that they didn t have to pay anything this year.
This is a great event because I get to get dressed up and don t have to pay anything, McCuien said. We were going to go out somewhere where we would have had to pay, but this is so much better.
Childress said the night also gave him the chance to have fun and reduce some of his stress before finals. McCuien
agreed and said she liked the masquerade theme because of how imaginative people were being.
I like people s crazy masks, McCuien said. It s really cool because some people even designed their own very creative.
Briaunna Camp, a sophomore business major, said she really liked seeing people s outfits and was happy have the chance to dress up again. She said she was also glad that some students came out, not having known about the dance with too much advance notice,
like Taylor.
I didn t know they had any formal event at Webster, Taylor said. I thought the masquerade sounded fun, but I couldn t find a mask, which is sort of disappointing. But I m trying to bounce back and still have fun; not everyone
is wearing masks.
Camp and Battle said the event started from a group of their girl friends talking about how they wanted to be able to use their prom dresses again.
We have the black and white dance in the spring, but a lot of prom dresses weren t black and white, Battle said.
Next year, Battle and lounge dress Camp said they hope there will be a while organization and planning
committee for the event because it will help make the preparations easier and they wouldn t have to compromise on how much they spend. For some, though, the night was fun, and Taylor said she didn t really notice any problems.
It s just like high school dances but without the awkwardness
of everyone being afraid to dance, Taylor said. Though, the real test would have come if they d have played the Electric Slide; that would have been great.
Even though it took so long for Begus and fame fancy dress Taylor to get to the dance floor, they said they were really surprised with the quality of the event.
This was a great bonding experience
with other experience, Taylor said. They did a great job; it was a good party and caribbean dress the DJ built up the excitement. This is probably the bestmost well-put together event I ve been to.


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