THURSDAY
At VES project/charity event/generally surreal experience Mac Attack, teeth chattered in fear and hypothermia. One former UC presidential candidate was seen scuba diving at the bottom of the pool, presumably for safety—not voyeuristic—purposes. Later that night, at the Phoenix’s Back to Mykonos, the DJ spun a wicked techno remix of Sting & the Police’s “Message in a Bottle.” An anonymous sophomore girl described the party as “bizzleboring,” but hey, it beats Stein Club.
FRIDAY
Despite an enjoyable cover band and all the free chicken wings you could eat, Pub Night was sparsely populated. The VH1 crowd (read: seniors) got their cards stamped and sipped Smirnoff Ice. Post-crumping/crunking/whatever you kids are calling it these days, the hip-hop crew rubbed up against each other at the Expressions party in Currier. Sigma Chi’s Hammed in Hawaii boasted alcohol-soaked fruit and alcohol-themed decorations. The annual Boy Band Party in Adams was a supremely good time. How often do you get the chance to sweatily headbang to *NSync and Kelly Clarkson (and not just alone in your room)?
SATURDAY
Mammoth postering efforts and that weird playhouse outside the Science Center were unable to draw a crowd to Habitat for Humanity’s Housed party in Eliot. In another d-hall, Hungama and its accompanying South Asian music enticed a sizeable number of dancers until well past midnight! Mini-skirt-clad girls swapped Uggs for thongs (flip-flops, you pervert!) and wandered between parties at the A.D. and Delphic. Jon Carpenter ’07’s birthday in Leverett might as well have been dubbed “Dins Gone Wild,” as the a capella group paired brand-new harmonies to good ol’ hits by Lil John and Usher.
