As Campus Activities Board prepares to debut its first Dinner and a Movie event on Sunday, Feb. 26, the organization offered an inside look at the decision-making process of some of Point Park University’s biggest events.CAB, one of Point Park’s leading organizations, is mainly responsible for planning and hosting events such as the annual charity ball and the Halloween dance, co-hosted with the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.Last semester, it also held its first Cake-Off cake-decorating contest, which is now a nominee to win the American College Personnel Association’s Program of the Year award at this year’s national conference.Even some of the major events, however, start out as small ideas. Chelsea Behanna, student director of CAB, said that many of their most successful events start out as minor notions from members.”There have been many times where we sit as a group and just blurt out ideas at meetings,” Behanna said at the CAB meeting last Tuesday.While some ideas are “blurted out,” CAB also gets many of its thoughts for activities from proposals, not only from regular members of the group, but from any student who has an idea.”We always tell people that you don’t even need to be a part of CAB to give an idea,” Behanna said. “We are doing this for the student body. We aren’t doing this just for us, so we want to hear from students.”Behanna, a sophomore public relations and broadcast major, explained how CAB molds these ideas into events. The brainstorming of ideas and forming of committees happens the semester before they plan on having the event and more details and planning become finalized as the date nears.Because there is an ample amount of time to plan these events, the group rarely wants to just host smaller events that less of the student body can attend.”We always say ‘dream big’ and we think students will be more attracted to big, fun, crazy events,” Behanna said.This idea of “dreaming big” has not always been an option for the organization, however. While CAB has been a body on campus since 1994, it has spent much of its time not having a steady group to organize it, making it difficult to host events.It was not until the Point Park Activities Counsel decided to hire a full-time director of Student Activities in April 2009 that the group was able to reform and rearrange its structure.J.W. Tabacchi, the present director of Student Activities, is one of the main reformers of the group. Before Tabacchi became director of the group, only a student director, a president and a handful of other members loosely held it together. Since then, CAB has added an executive board that organizes committees and the now 30 to 40 members that are the core of the organization.These changes, among many others, have helped enable CAB to become a bigger, more influential group on campus. Even with these strides, the group is still adapting to the changes and finding where it belongs among the many Point Park organizations.”CAB is still growing and it is still in the process of figuring out an identity,” Tabacchi said last Wednesday in his office.As Behanna stated, Tabacchi said the group fully embraces larger events that typically cannot be done by smaller organizations and they do not want to just do basic, weekly events. They enjoy hosting some of Point Park’s most prominent activities.Something Tabacchi particularly stresses with the group is the fact that anyone can join it, even if they only join to participate in one part of an event. Students can come and go as they please and participate as much as they want to.”Students talking to students – I believe – is the viral way that we can make the student body aware of getting involved with CAB and its activities and events,” Tabacchi said.This open inclusiveness of the group that both Behanna and Tabacchi speak of is what transforms ideas, such as the Dinner and a Movie event happening this month, into actual events.Dinner and a Movie, to be held in the Lawrence Hall Ballroom from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Feb. 26, is another event CAB has never tried before, and it is one of the slightly smaller-scale events that the organization was interested in hosting.When it came time to decide, many group members thought the event in February should be a Super Bowl party or a Valentine’s Day event, but sophomore broadcast and public relations major Brett Greene, thought they should try something less typical.Greene, who is a co-chairman of the Dinner and a Movie event, said the event is something not just football fans or couples can enjoy. Students can come with their friends or come with their floors to relax on a Sunday night, he suggested.The movie that will be played is “Crazy, Stupid Love,” which is a romantic comedy that Greene feels most students can appreciate. There will also be a taco bar that is catered by Moe’s, a slushy machine, popcorn and candy.Greene is enthusiastic about being the co-chair of an event Point Park has not held before and hopes students enjoy something fun for the general campus population.”Take a break from your homework and watch a movie with friends,” Greene said at the CAB meeting last Tuesday. “Free Moe’s and free movie – why would you not want to come?”