April Craze, an end of the year festival hosted by the University Activities Board (UAB) where Wright State student organizations provide activities to participate in, occurred on Friday, April 15 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
In addition to activities hosted by individual student organizations there were inflatables, popular food trucks like Zombie Dogz and Hunger Paynes, and a main stage where shows like a wing eating competition were held.
After April Craze, UAB also hosted After Craze on the Quad from 9 p.m. to midnight, which is a glow-in-the-dark music festival.
Director of Excursions for UAB, Aly Spence, was impressed with this year’s attempt at April Craze.
“This year probably has the best student organization involvement,” Spence said. “We’ve had a lot more organizations this year, more vendors this year. We’ve had an amazing turn out. It’s been a great day.”
According to Spence, this year’s April Craze differs from past years in a new rule that they have instituted with student organizations this year.
“This year, you’re not allowed to table,” Spence said. “You’re not allowed to market your organization in any way that promotes joining your organization. Everyone is required to have some sort of fun activity. We don’t want students to be bombarded with pressure to join a specific group. There’s only one week left, so let’s party and have fun with it.”
Heather Erickson, Director of Dayton Chi Alpha, found this year’s April Craze to be more exciting.
“I think this year has been a blast,” Erickson said. “There have been a lot of people that came by our table. I think it helps that April Craze has spread down campus. This has been great for us. I think it’s way more exciting. We have way more inflatables, we have the zipline, the stage is big, it’s loud and it feels like a campus wide festival. I think the bigger scale makes it more fun.”
Senior English major Garett Mefford believes this year to be larger than the previous years and was particularly interested in the main stage events and the inflatables.
“It seems like they put a lot more into it this year,” Mefford said. “I went to one where it was inside the whole time. I think it was raining or snowing outside, you know, Ohio weather. But this one seems huge compared to the other ones I’ve been to. I think there was a wing eating contest going on there. Also, all the free fall inflatables and bouncy castles look really cool. It’s a real cool event that they’re throwing right now.”
