By Mary Milligan
Every year, House Forum holds its annual Policies for Dollars, a competition among not just freshman, but everyone who lived in the dorm buildings.
Policies began with each group rushing out of their buildings and onto the quad chanting for their building. Each group then went to a section of the Pergola to listen for instructions and the order in which they would participate. Shriner in teal would lead, secondly Smith in black, then Coblentz in yellow, next Memorial in red, and ending with Meyran in blue.
The competitions began with the relay race on the quad. After each team completed their race, they headed to the Pergola to do their chants for their building.
Each building had high hopes to winning the pink spoon this year. The pink spoon, which is the ultimate prize, is not only given to the building who wins policies, but it means ultimate bragging rights for that year. Not only were the freshman excited, but upperclassman joined them on the quad to cheer and chant with them. It was a night to not be forgotten.
“They tried really hard. They’re so excited to be together,” said Sarah Tapscott, president of Coblentz hall.
“Super pumped and ready, Memorial is together. We bleed red,” said Memorial’s first floor representative, Dominique Byrd.
“Win or lose we are proud,” said Meyran President Samuel Lopez.
“The hall has come together, the best turn out we could hope for,” said Brittany DeValk, Smith’s third floor rep.
“We are going to win. We rocked everything,” said Kim Fluharty fourth floor representative for Shriner.
After the cheers and races completed, the teams were lead to Hodson Auditorium for upperclassman competitions, skits, and Jeopardy. Here the judges were introduced, President Volpe, Dean White, Dr. Gurzick, and Dr. Van Winter who would judge the skits as well as Jeopardy answers.
Shriner started skits with a Peter Pan concept, followed by Smith with a cops and robbers theme, next was Coblentz who enforced policies as Charlie Brown characters, fourth was Memorial who had a superhero league called “Justice Hood”, and finally Meyran finished off with their skit “Olympolicies University”. In between skits there were events held for upperclassman to keep them involved as well.
The first event was for sophomores. The goal was to see who could fit the most marshmallows in their mouth. Coblentz won first with 12 and Memorial and Meyran tied for third with eight. The junior competition was a dance off, Memorial won first, Smith second, and Coblentz third, judged by audience participation. Finally the senior competition was to see who could pop the most balloons by sitting on them. Smith won first while Memorial and Coblentz tied for third.
After the skits and upperclassman competitions finished up, the freshman teams readied for Jeopardy. In teams of two, it was a close match for the first several rounds.
The game finished and scores had to be tallied. During this time, House Forum honored Zack Luhman for his years of service in Residence Life, since it was recently announced that he will be leaving Hood College at the end of the month.
The auditorium became silent when the results were ready to be announced. Coblentz came in third place with 50.25 points, then Shriner came in second place with 59.75 points, and finally Memorial came in first place with 63.50 points. With that announcement, a huge roar came from the Memorial section of the auditorium. Victory was indeed theirs.
People were picked up, carried around, yet they did not rush for the pink spoon as instructed. The excitement
“It was all worth it!” said Sara Gonzales, president of Memorial, who worked for hours helping the freshman prepare to win Policies.
“All the preparations with organizing the t-shirts, the skit, obstacle course people; it was all worth it! Congrats Memorial!” Dominque Byrd followed up with after the victory.
“This is so crazy! I love my hall and all the people in it! All the late nights were all worth it,” said Secretary of Memorial, Andrea Christmas.
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