The unique title for this month’s Campus Activities Board (CAB) Pioneer Series event was established by accident.
“I was filling out the marketing request form, and not knowing what to call it, jokingly put ‘Not Yo Mama’s Gym Class’ and it kind of stuck,” said Mary Beth Cartier, a senior sports, arts and entertainment manager and Vice President of programming for CAB.
Campus Activities Board’s Pioneer Series committee offers free monthly events filled with music, snacks and a variety of activities. This series, new to this year, has three types of monthly events: Bingo Night runs every third Thursday of the month, Coffee with CAB the first Friday of every month and Point Park After Dark every second Saturday of the month.
Games planned for the Yo Mama event include jump rope, hula-hoop, tiny scooters, basketball, volleyball and the big parachute game. One of the main events of the night, however, is a seven-on-seven dodgeball game that will be running and switching up teams all night.
Cartier described the set-up of the game similar to that of the past bubble soccer event, meaning instead of a tournament style games, will be timed to around five-to-seven minutes in order to allow as many students as possible a chance to play.
Students attending will also be provided with the snacks to fill their lunchboxes such as Cosmic Brownies, Ring-Pops and Kool-Aid. The event will take place March 12 from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. in the Student Center Gym.
Starting this year, CAB’s Pioneer Series committee has made it their goal that the options for student’s nights aren’t just about the movies on Netflix queue. The Point Park After Dark series, established this year, is the third type of event established under the Pioneer Series, created to make sure students always have something to do on campus after hours.
“People have enjoyed having programming they know is going to happen consistently each month that they can rely on because if their personal plans fall through, there’s something for them on campus to go hang out at,” Cartier said.
Following last month’s Mardi Gras Mini-Golf, this month’s event will also take place in the Student Center gym. Although there was a lower turnout for the last event, the people who attended had a lot to say.
“The lighting looked amazing, and the course itself was beyond fun,” said Louis Spanos, a senior sports, arts and entertainment management major and CAB experience Pittsburgh coordinator.
However, numbers aren’t a concern to the coordinators, who all have a similar goal: make sure the students have fun. And so far, CAB members feel they have been successful.
“I’m very proud of the reviews and outcomes of each of them,” Leah Sero, a freshman sports, arts and entertainment major and CAB administrative coordinator, said.
