By Erica Brettman, Reporter
Calling all freshmen! On Nov. 20 this year, from 7-9:30 there will be a Freshman Fun Night to bring together all the freshmen.
“It’s a night for all freshman to get together and have fun,” Peer Leadership adviser Beth Trafton said.
The night will feature many activities freshmen can get involved in. Peer Leadership has been strongly encouraging all freshmen to go.
“It’s just a fun night so freshman can have an extra activity to go to. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. If I was a freshman, I’d go,” junior Andrea Strang said.
The freshman themselves have a variety of responses to this new activity. Freshman Drew Harper is still deciding whether to go or not. He said it depends on who else is going.
“I feel like this is a little young for us. I think we’re getting old for this kind of stuff, and I think as freshmen we should be taken more seriously than we are,” he said.
Freshman Dan Miller feels a little differently about it.
“I want to go because it will give me a time to talk to my friends about school and stuff, it will be a blast. I’m excited to play basketball and eat pizza,” he said.
Several other students are also looking forward to the Freshmen Fun Night.
“I will be going to the Freshmen Fun Night. It’s only a dollar, and I think it’s a good way to get the kids in a safe environment to have fun,” freshmen Brooke Harner said.
Freshmen Fun Night is just another time for freshmen students to realize they are important, Trafton said. There will be all kinds of activities, including music playing, pizza, snacks, a bounce house, optical courses, video games, DDR, rock band and an open gym for basketball, volleyball and bags.
“I think it’s a little overrated. I don’t think many people will go. The idea is good, but it’s just not realistic. I hope whoever is in charge will understand and not take offense to it if people don’t show up,” freshman Kyle Pollastrini said.
Freshman Jessica Woodward also felt the marketing campaign was overdone.
“I think that putting all those flyers on the lockers was a waste of paper and bad for the environment,” she said.
But Trafton is hoping that this freshman fun night will be the first of several. The peer leaders are hoping to do three Freshmen Fun Nights this year, depending on the response to this one. The activities will all be different.