DANCE
Fall Ball Semi-Formal
BY ELIZA ROSS ON NOVEMBER 15, 2013
The road to Fall Ball Semi-Formal contained bumps ranging from spirit week to playoffs, but
eventually the schedule fell into place. Fall Ball was originally supposed to be Nov. 15 but that date was immediately changed because there were complaints that it would conflict with the first Rose football playoff game. This would result in either empty stands or an empty dance floor. “We worked hard to accommodate everyone’s schedule,” senior Harrison Moore said. “It became very stressful realizing just about every weekend before Christmas conflicted with something.” The next option was the following night, Nov. 16, but there is an East Carolina University football game that afternoon which would leave people crunched for time with getting ready for the dance. After realizing Nov. 22 also would not work because of the potential chance the football team would make it to the second round of playoffs, the Fall Ball committee came to a consensus that Nov. 2 would be the perfect date because it was the date most people had voted on. "We finally decided on Nov. 2, the day after Homecoming to make it [kind of] a homecoming dance, which we've never gotten to have before, but we still called the Fall Ball semi-formal,” junior Mia Connell said. Realizing there were still unhappy people that could not attend, including some students who were playing in a non-school related lacrosse tournament, the committee looked beyond the imperfections and complaints and stuck with Nov. 2. "Essentially every date had a group of people who weren't going to be able to make it,” Connell said. “No matter what, someone was going to have a conflict, and we really just can't satisfy everyone." Connell went on to explain that even she had a conflict with the final date chosen. Her planned date, junior Webster Bland, had a lacrosse tournament scheduled for that weekend and would be late, if he made it at all. After the date was set in stone, the committee's first idea was that the theme was going to be “fall in the south.” “The mason jars were a huge part of this theme as well as the candles and the hanging lights,” Moore said. “We really just wanted to make the commons look as elegant as possible on the budget that we had.” The Fall Ball committee said that with the small budget they were given, they did not have the funding for a DJ, therefore the music was an iPod playlist created by DJ and former Rose student, Max Mallett. The doors opened at 7:30 pm and students were allowed in between 7:30 and 8:00. There were 250 tickets sold, which brought in about 1,300 dollars to go toward Victory Junction, a year- round camping facility that serves children with chronic medical conditions or serious illnesses. “I wasn’t planning on going to the dance originally, but my friends talked me into it and I’m really glad I went,” sophomore Nicole Hathaway said. HTML Comment Box is loading comments...
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