Residence halls gear up for daylong events, parties

Graduate supervisor Vamsi Manne said he hopes about 500 people crowd into Teter Quad's game room this weekend.\nWith this year's Super Bowl competition between local teams, Manne said he expects more people than the 200 to 300 who attended last year's showing. \nOn Sunday, Teter Quad, along with several other dorms on campus, will host Super Bowl parties.\nRead Center, McNutt Quad, Forest Quad and a few individual floors at Foster are also having parties to watch the NFL's championship game.\nWhile students can watch the Super Bowl game with friends or in the privacy of their own home, giving an option to students who have no plans for the Super Bowl is what the residence halls are striving to do with their community parties.\n"It's a good idea if people don't know anyone not off-campus," freshman Tyler Deaton said. "It's something to do, and you don't have to like football to go, because there are other events going on."\nRead residents will kick off their Super Bowl events at 6 p.m. in the center lounge and will have table tennis, a spirit contest, trivia and a big-screen TV to showcase the game.\nManne said Teter will host games of "pop pong," a hot-dog-eating contest, a "Madden NFL" video-game tournament and the ESPN-brand DVD trivia game "Scene It?"\nTeter's pre-game festivities will begin at 4 p.m. with "Pie your RA." A resident assistant will represent each floor, ready to be hit with pies, Manne said.\nIt will cost $1 or two canned goods to throw a pie.\nHoosier Hills Food Bank, 615 N. Fairview St., will receive the canned goods, and the money will be donated to Cody Lehe, a senior at Frontier High School in Chalmers, Ind., who fell into a coma after collapsing while playing in a football game. The money will go toward his hospital costs.\nWhen the Super Bowl finally begins, a projector will be used in the Teter game room to display the game.\n"We know a lot of residents that are from Indiana and the Chicago area," Manne said. "We have a good, safe, fun alternative instead of going out of the residence halls"