The Honor’s College held its annual Spring Ball Thursday in Webb Hall, inviting students, faculty and staff to dance in formal wear to music selected by DJ Raise the Barr Entertainment. The event was attended by over a hundred students, a success compared to the Halloween Dance of last semester according to Kay Andrews, social chair of the Honor’s College, junior in chemistry.
“We want to give students who aren’t in Greek life and who who don’t get the chance to go to a formal event a chance to hang out with their friends,” Andrews said.
“It’s a chance to bust out an old prom dress, or to just wear fancy clothes, and it’s not just for the Honors College, it’s for everyone,” said Alex Ewy, representative chair of the Honor’s College and senior information systems major.
The name of the ball was previously The Snow Ball and was held in January shortly after winter break, but the event was changed to the Spring Ball with the date moved to March.
“We didn’t feel like we had quite enough time coming right off winter break to prepare for the event,” Andrews said.
“We figured for the long term this is a better time to hold it so we changed it to the Spring Ball,” Ewy said.
The cost of admission was one dollar or a canned good, which would go to the Eureka Relief Fund, according to Andrews.
Funding for the event came from the Honor’s College general fund and it went towards food, catering, DJ Barr, and set up, as well as a photo booth, according to Ewy.
“The booth is for people to come and enjoy themselves and take goofy pictures,” Ewy said.
The DJ is from Overland Park, and his selection ranges from classic 90’s to more modern pop and dance songs.
“We try to keep it somewhat clean,” Ewy said. “The DJ usually goes with more of his popular songs.”
Mikayla Jackson Barth, senior in elementary education, felt there were fewer people than expected. Kristen Fraley, sophomore in elementary education, agreed.
“It’s kind of hard to promote this kind of thing,” Fraley said.
“There’s a lot of events that conflict with the schedule,” Barth said.
A possible improvement, according to Fraley, would be to get more Greek life to come, and make the event more of a campus wide activity.
“Some people were dissuaded from coming because they thought it was just an honor’s college event,” Fraley said.
Stephanie Whittat, junior in elementary education, was happy the dance has been moved to March.
“It’s more in the Spring so it’s a better time now, just before midterms,” Whittat said. “It seems like it’s the same as its been in previous year, and I’ve been three times.”
