The Nevada Sagebrush

Between 10 p.m. Saturday and 2 a.m. Sunday, the Lombardi Recreation Center transformed from a traditional workout center to an arena filled with students socializing and improving their pingpong skills.

It was Flipside Programming’s first foray into late night programming with Howl At The Moon. Another Howl At The Moon is planned for Nov. 17.

About 400 students showed up to the event, said Matt Smith, assistant director of student activities for Flipside. Organizers at the event, which cost about $2,000, said they hoped for about that turnout.

Lindsey Kerns, diversion and mini-course director for Flipside, said that while this event was successful, Flipside is shooting higher in November.

“The next one is going to be a lot better,”said Kerns. “We’ve booked the entire Joe Crowley Student Union.”

Due to the success of the event, ASUN plans on making a monthly tradition out of it. ASUN is in the process of planning more events in January, March and April.

Students had the chance to play pingpong, swim in the pool and go dancing.

“There was a great variety,”said Caitlin Stella, an 18-year-old music education major. “Anybody can have fun here. My personal favorite event was the game of Twister. It was about four times bigger than the normal board. That made it much harder and far more people could play.”

Other activities included relay races, board games and racquetball.

As the clock struck midnight, the famous “Jaws”theme song played while students bobbed up and down in the water.

Attendants of Howl at Moon felt that it was an overall success.

“This was definitely a successful event – even the janitor was talking to me about it,”said Daniel Hamilton, a 21-year-old secondary education major.

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