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    Harmony social coming to Pottle Auditorium

    Grab your dancing shoes, put on your Halloween costume a bit early and get ready for a Harmony Social. 

    On Thursday, October 22 from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. the 2nd Annual Halloween Harmony Social will take place in the Pottle Music Building Band Room. The event will be hosted by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia with Sigma Alpha Iota’s Mu Rho Chapter. 

    Though this is the 2nd Annual Social, Phi Mu Alpha renamed the event for clarity purposes.

    “In October 2014, we created this event and everyone had a good time, so now we’re aiming to bring it back every October,” said alumnus Cody Watts. “Calling the event a ‘ball’ mistakenly inferred it was formal, so we switched it to ‘social’ to make the name more appropriate.”

    The goal of the evening is to bring together students as well as the diverse organizations found on the campus. 

    “This is an open event where everyone can coexist and have fun,” said junior graphic design major Gregory Griffith. “I’m hoping that people who aren’t in organizations do come so they can get a chance to meet the organizations and get their own image of who they are versus what they read on a flyer or something.”

    Throughout the evening, multiple contests will take place including a dance competition, best singles costume and best couples costume. Learning from a flaw of last year, this year’s costume contest for both couples and singles will be based on a crowd vote. 

    “The costume contests were big hits, and we are bringing those back,” said senior general studies major Devin Barnes. “We did it kind of weird last semester when one of them was crowd vote, and that was the couples contest. The singles contest went to buying tickets, and that flopped so we are bringing it to a crowd vote only. We will have prizes and crowd vote by a decimal reader.”

    Along with the dance and costume competitions, refreshments will be offered while supplies last and music by KSLU with senior English major Katherine Wall DJ’ing for the night. 

    Outside of a night of fun, the host hopes the social not only gives them a chance to show the campus who they are and what they can do, but they hope other organizations will seek them in the future.

    “Not everyone even knows we really exist,” said Barnes. “I’m walking around all the time and people are like, ‘Oh Phi Mu, you can’t be in that. That’s a sorority.’ I’m like, ‘There is another letter.’ We are ready to show who we are on the campus and expose ourselves to the community where we can help out. We have 20 guys that are disposable and willing to do a lot, and we are willing to provide anything we really can.”

    The event director from the first “ball” will make an appearance, striving to keep his connection with the university.

    “I’m an alumni now, just graduated in May 2015,” said Watts. “I was the event director sinfonia put together last October, the 2014 Halloween Harmony Ball. I’ve graduated, but I’ve continued maintaining a relationship with both sinfonia and SLU in general. I’m not directing this year’s Halloween event, but they’ve asked me to ‘host’ it again, so I’ll be on the mic throughout the night. It’ll be fun.”

    Costumes are encouraged but not required. The event is 15 dollars for singles tickets and 20 dollars for couples. Payment for the event will take place at the door, and more information for the Halloween Harmony Social can be found on Facebook.  

     
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