Spring Formal gets “more and more hype” as the night goes on

More than a hundred students attended the Spring Formal on March 21 hosted by the Student Activities Council.

Photo credit: Kai Olbrich

By Kai Olbrich

This article is featured in the March print edition of the Sower newspaper.

The Concordia University Spring Formal started out slow and sparse but grew into a large and energetic crowd by the end of the night. The dance was held at Harvest Hall at the Seward County Fairgrounds on March 21 and featured a range of songs like “Party in the USA,” “Fein,” and “Boot Scootin’ Boogie.”

There were also multiple slow dance songs throughout the event. Jonathan Jurchen enjoyed the slow songs because of the emotional experience they cultivated.

“My favorite part was the slow dances, it was really fun,” he said. “I mean, I don’t have a partner, but it’s emotional, you know, you feel it in your spirit. It’s one of those things, it gets implanted in you at birth and you can just feel it, it resonates through the entire room.”

The Spring Formal is organized by the Student Activities Council and takes significant planning to get off the ground. Council President Matthew Koenig had the dance on his mind since classes started back up in January.

“This is the big one for us for the whole year so we’ve been talking about this, getting a date set, getting the ball rolling since January, since we got back for this semester,” he said. “Yeah, weeks of preparation– it’s been the focus for all of February.”

The dance started with an estimated 50 students for the first hour, but as the night went on it more than doubled in size. Timothy Dose said as more people showed up, the energy grew as well.

“Honestly when I pulled up and just throughout the entire night it progressively got more and more hype, that was the thing I loved the most because the more people got here, the more hype it got,” Dose said.

The Concordia Wind Symphony had a concert begin at the same time as the dance, which may be one of the reasons why the turnout was slow at the start, but Koenig was happy that after taking care of prior commitments, people chose to attend the dance.

“I’m very happy, I think it’s always slow [at the start], we were conflicted with a lot of other events, but I’m glad that people, after those events, chose to come here and we had a great turnout,” Koenig said.