| Tuesday, October 2151:, 2014

 

RHA Boat Cruise sets sail

Week Zaman
STAFF WRITER

Three school buses took off from
the McCormick Tribune Campus Center with
350 excited students and staff aboard late on
the evening of; Friday, October 10. All of these
people were heading toward the Odyssey, a
multi-level boat docked at Navy Pier, which
was decorated in a Tropical Hawaiian Luau
theme for the Residence Hall Association’s an-
nual Boat Cruise.

Once everyone was equipped with
their flower leis, they walked back out into the
chilly air to board the boat at about 1 a.m. As
each person boarded the boat, everyone who

desired was professionally photographed in
front of the Odyssey buoy with their friends
and received a free print of the photograph
upon departure. Once everyone was finally
on the boat, it slowly left the dock to cruise
around Lake Michigan.

When the door to the first level of
the boat was opened, as soon as they boarded
the boat, an immediate rush of anticipation
was felt, even worse than the anticipation
while waiting in line to board. First enveloped
by darkness in the entryway, and then led into
a dim red-orange glow, everyone made his or
her way towards the first dance floor.

Upstairs, there was another DI and
an additional dance floor, adjacent to which

was a hidden staircase up to the open-air top
deck of the boat. Besides enjoying the fresh,
cool air of the early Saturday morning, the
view of the Chicago skyline under the lights
was quite stunning. Descending all the way to
the lowest level of the boat, this level was com-
pletely occupied with casino games. Some stu-
dents were even allowed to be dealers for the
game blackjack

The Boat Cruise attendees played
the games to earn raffle tickets to increase their
chances of winning a digital camera, television,
DJ headphones, laptop, or one of sixty small
gift bags. While the casino games and danc-
ing were going on, people also had the option
of eating some finger foods. Once the games

were done for the night, the dance floors be—
came more populated and lively.

When the boat docked back at Navy
Pier by about 3 a.m., the last of the prizes were
given away and people started boarding the
first school bus at 3:30 am. The night had
passed by so fast—many agreed that it would
have been nice if the boat could have cruised
around the lake for a longer period of time.

Soon afterwards, all the decorations
were taken down, packed up, and everyone left
the boat with a bittersweet emotion amid the
cool air. By about 4:30 am. on Saturday, Oc-
tober 11, the RHA Boat Cruise was complete,
with everyone safely back to campus.

Photos by Khaleela Zaman

 

SGA Senate Election Candidate Bio Correction

William Bafia
TECHNEWS WRITER

Student Government Association
(SGA) held a set of special elections to fill the
remaining seats available in Senate for the Col-
lege of Science and Stuart School of Business,
on Tuesday, October 7, 2014. To help promote

the elections, SGA published candidate bios in
the 6th issue of TechNews.

Unfortunately, when copying data
and then submitting it to TechNews, candidate
Christopher “CI” Urban’s information was
incorrectly copied and thus incorrectly pub-
lished in TechNews. SGA apologizes for the
incorrect information being printed in Tech—

News and recognizes the following informa—
tion should have been printed instead:

“If elected as a Senator of the College
of Science, I would keep an open door policy
of communication with my fellow students
and the faculty of the College of Science. My
involvement as a senator would include work-
ing to be involved with all of the students from

each department within the College of Science.
I would seek out advice from our faculty, while
addressing all of the needs of our students. I
will represent the students with honor, duty,
and purpose.”