Campus Activities Board’s (CAB) Spirits and Traditions Committee will be providing students with a unique and comfortable way to talk and learn about topics like safe sex, domestic violence and sexual assault.

CAB’s annual Condom Carnival will be held on Feb. 7 from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. on the fifth floor of the Student Center.

Students can expect multiple student organizations, like the Forensic Science Club, Not On My Campus and the Rugby Club, to have booths set up at the Condom Carnival.

“Each booth will provide a game or an activity, which [students] can then tie back into the topic, allowing students a really unique way to discuss things that might be uncomfortable to talk about,” said Colten Gill, a senior sports, arts and entertainment management (SAEM) major and executive director for CAB.

Samantha Perez, a freshman SAEM major and member of the Spirits and Traditions committee, will be in charge of setting up for the event, making sure all of the organizations have their own booths and oversees that the event runs smoothly.

“We have people like Taffie [Bucci] coming in  to talk about making good and bad decisions for safe sex and for relationships,” Perez said. “This year, we’re trying to make it a little more fun.”

On top of the informational aspect, students can expect interactive games like plinko, darts and hula hoop challenges as well as fun prizes and food.

CAB expects the event to be larger this year than last year.

“Last year’s Condom Carnival was held in the Lawrence Hall Ballroom, and we had 10 or 11 student groups primarily participating,” Gill said. “It just got way too crowded. We are super excited to see such a big turn out, but we decided to move it to the Student Center gym this year in order to allow more flow and more room for students to walk around.”

The theme will also be different this year.

“Last year we did a luau theme for the event, but this year is like a 1950s drive-in style theme,” Gill said.

Title IX Coordinator Elizabeth Rosemeyer said that the Condom Carnival is more of an awareness event to get students thinking, not a program where students are being trained.

“We try to educate students through a fun activity,” said Rosemeyer. “The table that we do for Title IX, we are doing jointly with Pittsburgh Action Against Rape, PAAR, and we have a wheel that has information on sexual assault statistics, sexual violence statistics and information about good ways to get consent before two people engage in sexual activity.”

CAB has expressed that they want the festival to be more than just a fun event to get free condoms, but a tool to provide students with the means to have safe and educational conversations about sexual activity and healthy, consensual relationships.