Green beer, beads and celebratory T-shirts. These are among the things some students won’t be donning come Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day.
For students who choose to not celebrate “officially” for the day, several Registered Student Organizations and residence halls will host alternative unofficial events.
Presby Hall, a private certified housing residence hall, is promoting alcohol-free celebration in support of a sober Unofficial. In support of keeping Presby Hall an alcohol-free zone, Firas Rafati, residential director of the residence hall, said they held an Unofficial presentation and talk with police officials.
“The RAs also talked about rules and regulations so our residents know what the policies are,” Rafati said.
Friday night, Presby will be hosting an alternative Unofficial event in their living room from 6:30 to 11 p.m., where they will be playing various games and offering free food and prizes. People who don’t live in Presby are welcome to attend this event as well.
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Newman Hall residents will be having a movie marathon, watching trilogy movies on a projector in one of their assembly rooms.
“We usually try to provide some alternative event for our residents to partake in,” said Chase Jones, resident director at Newman Hall.
Alongside residence hall events, students may spend the night celebrating with RSOs, such as the Tree House society.
Founded in 2009, the Tree House Society has hosted an alternative Unofficial event every year so far, according to Daniel Neuser, junior in FAA and president of the Tree House Society.
“We call ourselves a childhood memory club. We do a lot of activities that are inspired by things we did in childhood. We have picnics outside in the warm months; we play games on the Quad, do arts and crafts, go trick-or-treating on Halloween, decorate Easter eggs, a lot of fun stuff like that,” Neuser said.
Friday night, they will be meeting at the Undergraduate Library to play games and go out for dessert.
Neuser is expecting to have a lot of students to participate in the activities planned.
“It’s been a big hit among us, actually, we’ve had good turnouts all the times we’ve done it,” Neuser said.
