11 P.M.: Formal dance ‘a black and white affair’

Dancers in the Student Activity Center were seeing black and white late Saturday night.

“A Black and White Affair” was this year’s multicultural formal dance, typically held by a multicultural student group in the SAC every year. This year’s event was sponsored by the Multicultural Greek Council.

“The school is really doing us a favor, letting us use the facility,” MGC president and Sturgis senior Miguel De Jesus said. “These kinds of events, they’re really good fundraisers.”

MGC was founded this semester to govern the six multicultural fraternities and sororities on campus. De Jesus said he had helped run the formal in past years, but being in charge of it was a different experience.

“This is my first time running (the dance),” De Jesus said. “Being my first time, it was work… insurance, paperwork, meeting with the police.”

The event was $5 to attend and was open to the public, including students from other universities.

Auburn senior Nou Her has attended the dance each of the four years she has been at Central Michigan University, and it is one of the things she will miss after graduating.

“Since I was a freshman, I’ve come to every one. (The dance is) special because nobody gets to party at the SAC,” Her said. “I’ve met students from other universities. It’s for everyone, even though it’s held by a multicultural group.”

Detroit freshman Toni Bailey said she enjoyed the dance, although she was not about to allow herself not to.

“You have to make the best of the party,” Bailey said. “Especially when you pay $5.”

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