Dorky Columbia Students Attempt Throwing Parties, Remain Dorks
Students in Morningside Heights have recently discovered the fine art of throwing parties, according to their campus rag. It's too bad that their parties sound like possibly the lamest things ever, in the history of all of man:
Theme parties have become more and more popular in suites and dorm rooms-students say the more intricate the theme, the better.
"People have definitely been getting creative this year with the ideas," said Cliff Horton, CC '07.
Horton, who has hosted such parties as a hat party and a Martipalooza, in honor of his friend Marti, said the trick is to get people talking.
"The best themes get people talking about each other," he said. "But it has to be easy to execute."
Martipalooza sounds like such a blast! What else can we learn about party-throwing, Columbia-style?
Casey Acierno, CC '08, doesn't apply to that rule. Her first party, she said, was based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel.
Last year, she said she and her suitemates decided to throw a Great Gatsby party. Her suite invited people to dress like characters in the book.
"My friends were like, 'why don't we do this more often?'" she said.
And they have. Since then, they've thrown a West End party (it involved rap music, white tank tops, and popped collars), a disco party (all things sparkly), and a robots and ho-bots party (few dressed up for this one).
Wow. Stories like this make us glad we went to college in the days when getting a keg and some drugs was a theme in and of itself.
