The Lawrence Hall multipurpose room is set to transform into a Disney fanatic’s dream Feb. 18 with the return of one of the most popular student events of the month — Late Night Bingo.
“With the latest crazes of ‘Frozen’ and ‘Star Wars’ coming back out, the Disney brand name has been very big again,” said Jocelyn Hyrb, CAB’s Pioneer Series Coordinator, in an interview last Thursday. “We just figured it’s so loved by people.”
This will be the second Late Night Bingo event of the semester hosted by the Campus Activities Board (CAB) as part of their Pioneer Series. Last month’s bingo event drew quite a crowd, making it one of the more well-attended events of the semester.
“Our big prize is a karaoke machine and we are putting along a ‘Frozen’ karaoke CD with it. We also have a stuffed ‘Lady and the Tramp’ plush paired with a Noodles & Company gift card because, you know, spaghetti,” Hyrb said. “There’s even a Disney princess sleeping bag, but the rest will be a surprise.”
Many students look forward to this month’s Late Night Bingo due to its prizes and socially competitive atmosphere.
“I kept losing and then finally, I won,” Carlin Diachun, junior intelligence and national security major, said last Wednesday in an interview. “I came to find out you have to run up and be first at the prize table.”
Every bingo night attracts an overwhelming amount of students, and Hyrb says that these bingo nights have gained a cult-like following.
“Last month was the first time I went, and I was impressed by how many people were there and how well it was organized,” Mike Turk, freshman broadcast journalism major, said in an interview last Wednesday in Lawrence Hall.
Max Namey, a freshman forensic science major, was also impressed by last month’s large turnout.
“I had a lot of fun even though it was so crowded. We had to sit on the floor,” Namey said last Wednesday in an interview at the Point Café. “There weren’t even enough chips, so we took stickers from the CAB table and ripped them up to make our own chips.”
To combat the problem of running out of bingo chips, CAB has ordered more for this month’s event. The location has also been quite a challenge for CAB’s bingo events due to limited facilities.
“We found that this [multipurpose room] location might pose a problem with capacity,” Hyrb said. “I mean, we’ve never had to turn anyone away, but it’s a very central location so kids prefer this.”
As to the reason why so many students attend Late Night Bingo, Namey thinks it’s because “college kids love free stuff.”
“I think everyone at Point Park just wants to say, ‘I won Late Night Bingo,’” Hyrb said.
