The upper floor of the Wyoming Union was packed Friday night with students bouncing slime, zooming around in light-up skates and bowling in temporary lanes. Based on the smiles and cupcake faces seen everywhere, the 7220 Entertainment put on yet another successful event for the students of the University of Wyoming.
For many students, events like Friday’s GloWyo are a chance to meet people and make friends.
“I was invited to go with people on my floor,” said freshman Josh Adams. “It showed me their true colors. Everyone in my fishbowl just does their homework throughout the week like normal college students, but when they actually are out doing stuff you can actually see who they are.”
Adams lives in the McIntyre dorm and has grown very close with his floormates, especially through GloWyo. Like other 7220 events, it brought friends and family together through social enhancement. The glow-themed events saw particular involvement since it was also Family Weekend at the university.
The event also included a double feature showing of the “Incredibles” on one partitioned half of the Ballroom.
“I played a double feature of the ‘Incredibles’ because it is a good family favorite,” said 7220 Entertainment Film Coordinator Hannah Lewis, “and, also, Disney is weird on their rights so this was one of the only weekends I could book it. Part of my job is to contact the distributors and book films on the certain showing days. We have to pay for the rights for all the films we show because it’s a public event.”
Lewis was also the individual secured the rights to show “Avengers: Infinity War” earlier this year in War Memorial Stadium. The process to book these movies takes about two weeks and it’s a small window of time that they are available for digital showing before the DVD comes out in stores. Four to six weeks after the particular film leaves theaters, Lewis has a two-week span to call the distributors and book a night where she can show the film. After the two weeks are up, anyone and everyone can buy the film to watch on their own.
The film showing was not the only success. According to Adams, the slime ran out fast and was a great bonding moment for him and his friends. Though the amount of slime available at the event was minimal, Adams and his friends received a sufficient amount enough to roll it into a small green glow in the dark bouncy ball.
“We threw them against the wall after they hardened some and played some wall ball with them basically,” he said.
Because of the multiple props and activities offered at this event it was the most expensive one put on by 7220 so far this year. There were many vendors who provided the “Just Dance” on Wii, bowling and movie showing, and the 7220 even catered in cupcakes, wings and miniature corn dogs, going the whole nine yards to make this event the highlight of the weekend.
