SUA provides Big 12 game viewing at Union

Friday, March 14, 2008

Student Union Activities provided students and faculty with an opportunity to watch Big 12 Championship games between classes Thursday. They will also play host to a tournament watch party today.

Students and a few faculty members sat in front of a projector screen placed on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union Thursday and watched games from the first round of the tournament. SUA provided refreshments for those watching the games. During breaks in the games, SUA members asked spectators trivia questions about Kansas basketball and gave prizes to whomever answered correctly.

“It’s pretty enjoyable and the food’s good,” Brandon Goodrich, Dallas senior, said. “The trivia questions were nice.”

Photo by Jon Goering

Topeka junior Chris Munoz and Laurn Lakebrink, Liberty, Mo. junior, watch basketball on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union Thursday afternoon. SUA is holding a Big 12 watch party for students to watch the games.

Goodrich, like most other students in the union, didn’t know that the watch party was happening until he entered the union.

Emily Riley, Overland Park junior and member of the SUA special events committee, said that she was surprised that so many students showed up despite the fact that they Jayhawks weren’t playing.

“We hoped it would be during one of KU’s games so we could all watch and be a good atmosphere,” Riley said. “But since it’s the Big 12 Championship people want to see the games anyway.”

The attendance also surprised Riley because the tournament was scheduled around the time of many University midterms and close to spring break.

Some students in the Union divided their attention between the games and their class notes. Ann Whealdon, Wichita senior, tried to study for her midterm while watching Texas Tech play Oklahoma State.

“I’m not really focusing on studying for my midterm too much,” Whealdon said. “I spent a lot of time studying last night, though, so I should be okay.”

While many people who came through the union stopped to watch the game for a while, a few others grabbed some food and drinks from the event and moved onto other things.

Lauren Lakebrink, SUA special events coordinator and Liberty, Mo., junior, said that SUA played host to a watch party on campus for at least the last three years. She said that overall for the two days she expected about 300 people to come through and enjoy the games, close to the number of people who visited last year.

—Edited by Jared Duncan

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