Spring Daze committee plans for bad weather

Spring days are upon us! Well, technically. But the forecast may leave you thinking differently.

According to The Weather Channel website on Wednesday morning, there was a 100 percent chance of rain on Saturday. Rain and snow are expected in the morning and evening, and the forecasted high temperature is 45 degrees Fahrenheit.

Because of these unfortunate forecasts, the Spring Daze committee has had to change some of their plans for the big Spring Daze event, scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Saturday.

All of the events will be moved inside various buildings on campus. The bands and the swag items will be in the NPAC, ice cream and the petting zoo will be at the Rangeland Pavilion, and the booths, inflatables, and other activities will be in the Chicoine Center and Armstrong Gym.

The bubble soccer, pie your RA in the face, slip-n-slide, drunken basketball, sand volleyball, and the dunk tank were cancelled because they cannot move inside.

The event is still planned to start at 10 a.m. in the NPAC with the CSC Jazz band performing first. The Birds will perform at 11 a.m., Bluestreet at 1 p.m., Backroads at 3 p.m., The Birds, again, at 5 p.m., Cardiff Brothers at 7 p.m., New Beat Fund at 9 p.m., and finally Cheat Codes at 11 p.m.

The booths and activities will be open from 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Clubs on campus will be hosting a variety of booths including bracelet making, corn hole, karaoke, carnival games, potato sack races, inflatables, basketball arcade, animal kissing booth, high striker, raffle and bake sale, tie dye bracelets, pillow fighting, a photo booth, flower crown making, fencing demonstrations, dart carnival game, coffee, football toss, palm reading, an art show, mocktail games, putt-putt golfing and others.

At 5 p.m., all the booths and activities will shut down. There will be a barbeque in the Student Center Cafeteria to follow. There will be sumo-wrestling going on in the Ballroom at the same time.

After the barbeque the only events will be the bands and glow-in-the-dark face painting hosted in the NPAC.

If the weathermen are wrong, and Saturday turns out to be nice and sunny, the events will remain outside with the petting zoo still at the Pavilion, the inflatables behind the dorm complex building, all the booths along the campus sidewalks, and karaoke in the Mari Sandoz Center.