On October 5, the Stockton College hosted their 18th annual Osprey Ball in the Campus Center Event Room. Tickets were sold in advance for five dollars and for ten dollars at the door, a relatively low price for four hours of dancing, food, and friendship.
A photo booth was positioned outside of the event room complete with hilarious accessories so friends could pose together and just have a great time. A photographer milled about the event, taking pictures of various individuals, couples, and groups of friends. Once inside the room, dancers were greeted with a blast of music and a foggy dance floor lit up by lasers.
The Campus Center was redesigned to look like a Monopoly board come to life. Giant cardboard cutouts of spaces from the board as well as large dice were scattered around the room. (One die even made it into the air part way into the ball as dancers tossed it around the dance floor as though it were a volleyball.) There was also an arch against one wall that depicted all of the streets a person could buy on the Monopoly board where people could take pictures either by themselves or with friends.
The music stayed within the pop genre, ranging from Miley Cyrus’s “We Can’t Stop” to Ylvis’s “What Does the Fox Say?”. The dance floor was jammed packed with dancers and friends hanging out and just having fun. It was rather noteworthy that when a line dancing song came on, the hodgepodge of people managed to quickly move into a grid-like formation to move along as one and do dances like “The Wobble” and “Cha cha Slide.”
All in all, it was an exciting and enjoyable evening that, despite not always given the highest regards by students, was worth the money to just have some good, clean fun.