Senior Rebekah Slagle and alumnus Seth Daggett bob for apples at the Zeta Rho costume party Oct. 30 at Downtown Church of Christ. Festive fall function activities included watching “Hocus Pocus,” carving pumpkins, sipping hot chocolate and apple cider and trick-or-treating. [Courtesy of Molly Ellis] hen my overachieving roommate, senior Megan Hitt, co-planned a Delta Gamma Rho function last spring, I gained a whole new appreciation for the social clubs activity directors office.Large-scale military operations take less planning than that function did. Not only were there four locations involved, but since it was a blind date function, the planning authorities also played the role of matchmakers. For weeks I watched as my ambitious roommate risked personal sanity and potential club mutiny, coordinating details and calling half the men on Harding’s campus, for other people, of course. If the energy that went into planning that function could somehow be bottled and sold, I am convinced that it could run my microwave for approximately one year. I cite the above example as “Exhibit A” under “Reasons Why I’ve Never Been Nor Will Never Be Club Activities Director.”I make no secret about my procrastination habits. The reality is that no one wants a chronic procrastinator wielding the colossal power of the club activities director. Because if there is one thing club members at Harding take seriously, it’s their functions. A few of you overzealous readers may one day change your ways and garner your club’s vote for activities director. Inevitably, ten days before your first function when you have not planned anything, you will realize you made a huge mistake.Panic-stricken,you’ll frantically rack your brains for something cheap, enjoyable and fast. Please don’t hesitate to consult the advice that I freely give now. First, plan a function that everyone will like. This is a given, but you will probably overlook this in your haste. You simply can’t subject the decent, dues-paying members of your club to a finger-painting function or one where everyone sits in a circle and plays telephone. Second, make it cheap, because no one wants to pay 20 bucks to sit around in a circle and play telephone. Third, make your fellow club members pay. Because no one will pay 20 bucks to sit around in a circle and play telephone, but they will gladly jump on the opportunity to get a free T-shirt. Be on your guard! Fourth, be in constant communication with your codirector. You are in this together, and you can do more as a pair than you can do by yourself. But more importantly, when your pathetic lack of planning is exposed, the function bombs, you can always calmly suggest that it was the other guy’s idea. And finally,make the shirt cute because a cute shirt will hopefully outlast the painful memories of the function. If you can’t draw or design, find an art major friend who can. It’s the least you can do. [Jessica Merrill] great date Howtoplana functionin10days w [ ] 254 [social clubs] SophomoreDavidHill holds on for the rideof his lifeat the Pi Kappa Epsilon rodeo function Dec. 9 at the White County Fairground. Members anddates dressed in rodeo-themedgarb, atebarbeque, listened to country music and attempted to conquer the wild mechanical bull at the traditional function. [Courtesy of Paige Parkey] Senior AmandaMakool laughs as sophomoreChaseAkinsopens his whiteelephant gift, a dress-up Barbie,at the annual Gamma Sigma Phi formal and gift exchange at the Hilton Hotel in Little Rock on Dec. 1. “This game is great for Christmas parties because you can exchange inexpensive, humorous gifts,” Makool said. [Chris Hamilton]
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