This semester, Campus Activities Board (CAB) will not be sponsoring a bus trip to New York City. Instead, CAB will be hosting a trip to Skyzone, a trampoline park in Buffalo.
As part of its campus social programming, CAB has traditionally organized a bus trip to New York City each year during the month of November. According to Barbara Spaulding ‘17, CAB student director, arrangements with local bus services did not work out as anticipated. “A couple weeks ago, we decided to make the call to cancel the NYC trip and substitute it with something else,” she said.
Instead of cancelling the event entirely, CAB opted to relocate the outing to Skyzone in Buffalo. According to its website, Skyzone is a trampoline park that features a free jump zone, a foam pit, and ultimate dodgeball, along with a variety of other activity areas. The park has become a popular weekend destination in the Buffalo area and provides a great opportunity to enjoy a unique physical activity. As a result of Skyzone’s group pricing incentives, CAB was also able to secure tickets to the park at a significant discount.
Kasey Cannister ‘17 helped to organize the Skyzone trip and is excited to provide an opportunity for students to connect off-campus without needing to worry about transportation or high costs. “With popular activities like this typically far from campus, we have been wanted to provide transportation for a fun outing like this one,” she shared. “We are really looking forward to taking students off campus for a fun event as well as providing a space for a large group of Houghton students to hang out with one another in a popular facility where they would typically only know a few people there.”
The bus to Skyzone will leave from the Campus Center at 12:30 p.m.. and return around 5:00 p.m. Tickets to the event are $10 and can be purchased at the Welcome Desk. Participation is limited to 47 students, and CAB anticipates that tickets will sell out quickly, so Cannister recommended that students come and get tickets while they are still available.
The Palooza offers a variety of activities, but Miller and Cannister expressed particular enthusiasm for this year’s lineup of student and faculty bands. “Last year we had a harder time booking bands,” Miller explained. “This year we started really early communications with bands across campus to get quality bands who wanted to perform.” Cannister notes that the Palooza was originally “created to be a Houghton music festival,” and looks forward to the bands being “a big presence in the whole Palooza.” The featured bands include “The Burdo and the Bee,” “The Sorrow Estate,” “Marc LeGrand and Friends,” “True Cliche,” Mitch Beattie and the Heartbreakers,” as well as talented students and faculty without official band names. “We’ve been joking at meetings about things we can call them,” Kasey Cannister noted.