A game day for students gave a break for fun

On April 10 at the Student Lounge, Activities Board Recreation and Events Coordinator, Annika Fraga, hosted an afternoon with video games and activities. Patrick Nance, the Communications Coordinator, helped put the event together.

“Activities Board and I sat down and thought about what kind of events we should bring to students. We knew a lot of them liked video games and the success of fall quarter’s Game Day motivated us to continue it during spring quarter,” said Nance.

Fraga worked with the president of Anime and Watch Club, Daniel Dino-Slofer. He brought the consoles and video games, one of which was the newly released “Dragon Ball Z Fighter”.

“In the past two years, I was the Communications Coordinator and incorporated my club into these activities. Even though I’m not a part of Student Life anymore they still ask me to come and be like their guest of honor,” Slofer said.

He supplied the games himself. “The games I choose are based on what people like and what people haven’t heard of yet or don’t know,” Slofer said

Fraga also partnered with club president of SMASH Club, Jon Paul Oleda. He contributed the consoles and television sets used.

Oledan , “I’ve been a part of the campus for a while and all these Game Days I’ve participated in. It was last year during Spring Quarter that previous Communications Coordinator, Daniel Dino-Slofer asked me to participate”.

Slofer organized a tournament for the DBZ game and the prizes were Amazon gift cards. Student Life also setup Mario Kart on the Nintendo Switch; traditional games and activities like ping-pong, air-hockey, and monopoly were also available.

The evaluations left by students and the number of participants demonstrate the success of the event encouraging for Student Life to continue the tradition.