Lack of crowd at party stroll
Jessica Parks/ Staff Writer
Issue date: 3/7/05 Section: News
In order to wrap up the National PanHellenic Council Rush week, a party "stroll-off" competition was held on Friday night in the University Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
A party stroll is similar to line dances, only strolls are in a circle formation. This dance is typically done by African American greek members to "represent your organization," said Orlando Drummond, president of Eastern's NPHC chapter.
Drummond said the idea of the event was to have fun and join together the Interfraternity Council, PanHellenic Council and NPHC to teach each other how to stroll. All of the organizations had met together a week before to practice for Friday's event.
On the day of the performance, the scheduled Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity both hadn't shown up.
"Our continuous goal is to promote unity among different nationalities on campus and between the greeks to show that we all could work cohesively," Drummond said.
Drummond said he was personally let down by the poor attendance and lack of support from the campus and greek community. He said even though this event was not a success, he looks forward to more opportunities for more functions like this in the future.
Monique Cook-Bey, adviser of the NPHC, said one of the most likely reasons for the low turnout was because, "(we) just came off a busy weekend," referring to the Miss Black EIU pageant held the week before. Drummond also said there were many contributing factors including midterms.
Phi Beta Sigma fraternity member and participant Michael Curtis Jr., a sophomore computer information systems major, came to support the event and said he was disappointed.
"When we were closing the doors (early because no one came) that's when people were coming," Curtis said. "They just came too late,"
The event, which was open to anyone, was $4 per person to help raise money for the Nate Anderson Scholarship and Johnetta Jones Scholarship.
Cook-Bey said the NPHC had already donated $750, a portion of the proceeds from the "Step-Show" held Homecoming weekend.
"(The) ultimate goal is to raise $100,000 with anybody involved with minority affairs to recruit more minority students and retain them here," Cook-Bey said.
A party stroll is similar to line dances, only strolls are in a circle formation. This dance is typically done by African American greek members to "represent your organization," said Orlando Drummond, president of Eastern's NPHC chapter.
Drummond said the idea of the event was to have fun and join together the Interfraternity Council, PanHellenic Council and NPHC to teach each other how to stroll. All of the organizations had met together a week before to practice for Friday's event.
On the day of the performance, the scheduled Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity both hadn't shown up.
"Our continuous goal is to promote unity among different nationalities on campus and between the greeks to show that we all could work cohesively," Drummond said.
Drummond said he was personally let down by the poor attendance and lack of support from the campus and greek community. He said even though this event was not a success, he looks forward to more opportunities for more functions like this in the future.
Monique Cook-Bey, adviser of the NPHC, said one of the most likely reasons for the low turnout was because, "(we) just came off a busy weekend," referring to the Miss Black EIU pageant held the week before. Drummond also said there were many contributing factors including midterms.
Phi Beta Sigma fraternity member and participant Michael Curtis Jr., a sophomore computer information systems major, came to support the event and said he was disappointed.
"When we were closing the doors (early because no one came) that's when people were coming," Curtis said. "They just came too late,"
The event, which was open to anyone, was $4 per person to help raise money for the Nate Anderson Scholarship and Johnetta Jones Scholarship.
Cook-Bey said the NPHC had already donated $750, a portion of the proceeds from the "Step-Show" held Homecoming weekend.
"(The) ultimate goal is to raise $100,000 with anybody involved with minority affairs to recruit more minority students and retain them here," Cook-Bey said.
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