Students fill Quad, Citizen Cope headlines at annual Loyolapalooza
Andrew Zaleski
Issue date: 4/28/09 Section: News
Students packed the Quad on Sunday for Loyolapalooza, the school's annual end-of-year festival that features an afternoon filled with free food, games and entertainment, as well as some of the biggest names in music.
Armed with water bottles and dressed in shorts and flip-flops, spectators withstood the sweltering spring sun to catch headlining acts Augustana and Citizen Cope.
"Loyolapalooza is always very relaxing and fun," said senior and Student Government Association President Alex Hollis. "It's a nice way to go out with a bang before finals."
In addition to live music, the festival, which is open to both the public as well as all members of the Loyola College community, typically features various carnival-like games set up around the Quad. Throughout the day, students could be seen wrestling each other while donning bulky, padded sumo-wrestler costumes, navigating their way through a blow-up obstacle course and lining up for cotton candy and snow cones.
Other students took advantage of the airbrush tattoo and face-painting stations. Attendees could request balloon animals at another station, and a line of tables running parallel to the Humanities Building was home to a seemingly endless amount of hamburgers, hotdogs, chips and assorted beverages.
"I think it's cool that there's a lot of stuff that's free and open," said Mike Maiale, a sophomore who attends Johns Hopkins University.
The event itself is sponsored and organized by members of Loyola's SGA, who were seen darting around the event ensuring that food was replenished and the games were operating smoothly.
"All the logistical work was the biggest challenge to planning it all," said Nick DeGeorge, '11, a member of the student senate who expressed pride in how this year's Loyolapalooza turned out.
"[The] only disappointing thing was that SGA staff had to wear black shirts," continued DeGeorge, lamenting somewhat the 90-degree weather that hung around for the better part of the six-hour festival, a drastic contrast to the rainy gray weather of last year's Loyolapalooza.
Armed with water bottles and dressed in shorts and flip-flops, spectators withstood the sweltering spring sun to catch headlining acts Augustana and Citizen Cope.
"Loyolapalooza is always very relaxing and fun," said senior and Student Government Association President Alex Hollis. "It's a nice way to go out with a bang before finals."
In addition to live music, the festival, which is open to both the public as well as all members of the Loyola College community, typically features various carnival-like games set up around the Quad. Throughout the day, students could be seen wrestling each other while donning bulky, padded sumo-wrestler costumes, navigating their way through a blow-up obstacle course and lining up for cotton candy and snow cones.
Other students took advantage of the airbrush tattoo and face-painting stations. Attendees could request balloon animals at another station, and a line of tables running parallel to the Humanities Building was home to a seemingly endless amount of hamburgers, hotdogs, chips and assorted beverages.
"I think it's cool that there's a lot of stuff that's free and open," said Mike Maiale, a sophomore who attends Johns Hopkins University.
The event itself is sponsored and organized by members of Loyola's SGA, who were seen darting around the event ensuring that food was replenished and the games were operating smoothly.
"All the logistical work was the biggest challenge to planning it all," said Nick DeGeorge, '11, a member of the student senate who expressed pride in how this year's Loyolapalooza turned out.
"[The] only disappointing thing was that SGA staff had to wear black shirts," continued DeGeorge, lamenting somewhat the 90-degree weather that hung around for the better part of the six-hour festival, a drastic contrast to the rainy gray weather of last year's Loyolapalooza.
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Baltimore Movers
posted 4/30/09 @ 12:38 PM EST
This was a really fun event and luckily the weather was great, if maybe a little too hot. And of course it's nice to get well known bands to play.
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posted 7/21/09 @ 11:30 PM EST
All the logistical work was the biggest challenge to planning it all," said Nick DeGeorge, '11, a member of the student senate who expressed pride in how this year's Loyolapalooza turned out. (Continued…)
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