Collaboration creates childhood fun

Diving for spoons and becoming entangled in Twister brought out the child in many Truman students last weekend.

The first Friday back from school can lack in excitement, but the Association of Black Collegiates and Lambda Chi Alpha hosted "Old Skool Game Night" - a night of childhood fun for college-aged kids.

"We thought it would be something new since nobody has anything to do this week since everybody is coming back to school," said Kapris Clark, social chair for ABC. "It was something we could do that was fun and different."

Clark said ABC really wanted to make this project a combined effort, so they called other organizations.

"The Lambdi Chis were the first group to respond," Clark said. "They were wonderful to work with."

President of ABC Dainielle Fox said members of the group wanted to branch out and work with new organizations to get their name out and make connections. She said members of Lambda Chi helped with everything, including bringing games and people to the event.

"You never know how much you have in common with an organization until you actually sit down and do something with them," Fox said.

The event had a slew of childhood favorites including duck duck goose, musical chairs, Twister, spoons, Taboo, Connect 4, Guess Who?, Candyland, Monopoly, Apples to Apples and Nintendo 64 games.

"We had every game you could think of, and even then people made up their own games," Fox said.

Fox said that along with the variety of games there also was a variety of competition associated with certain games.

"Musical chairs was hilarious - people were bum rushing each other to get into the chairs," Fox said. "You didn't win anything, but it was definitely serious."

Along with individual games, several spontaneous tournaments took place, including a Nintento 64 tournament of "Goldeneye."

"When we played Taboo, almost everyone that was there played," Fox said. "We kind of split half and half. We had twins on my team, and they knew everything about each other, so they ended up scoring like 11 points."

Raishelle Johnson lost during a game of Twister but said that singing Alicia Keys' song over karaoke with some of her friends made up for it.

"It was really fun because people weren't afraid even though they didn't know anyone else in the room," Johnson said.

After some games of Twister and Guess Who?, Johnson said she sat out of the massive Taboo game.

"Some people didn't know how to play, and I'm really competitive," Johnson said. "It was really funny because they had two huge teams."

At snack time, Juicy Juice boxes and a supply of candy took the sugar high to a new level for the gamers.

"The Juicy Juice was a real throwback," Johnson said. "I hope they have this thing again. It was really cool to talk to people you normally wouldn't have talked to."