While some Ball State students celebrated Valentine's Day with their loves, going out to eat and taking romantic strolls in the park, others joined in on the University Program Board's "Bad Romance: An Anti-Valentine's Day Affair."
In years past, UPB has always celebrated Valentine's Day the traditional, pro-Valentine's Day way. This year they switched it up, and for the first time ever, offered an anti-Valentine's Day celebration.
"Not-so-great date food" was offered including cupcakes, soda, punch and even an array of foods to dip in the three-tier chocolate fountain. There were several different anti-Valentine's Day activities offered, such as a voodoo doll making station, an area with Valentine's Day cards waiting to be reimagined and a place to vandalize romantic movie posters including "Titanic" and "The Notebook." At the end of the event, the vandalized posters were raffled off.
UPB said there were approximately 30 people in attendance during the first hour.
"The event just sounded different," sophomore public relations major Hayley Wolf said. "I'm single and I'm a new student this semester, and I thought I would take advantage of the free event."
Surprisingly, most of the attendants at the event were not so anti-Valentine's Day after all. Several of them had boyfriends or girlfriends and said they actually enjoyed the holiday.
Wolf was accompanied by her friend Sarah Niskanen, who has had a boyfriend for three years. Niskanen celebrated the holiday over the weekend because her boyfriend lives in her hometown.
The voodoo doll making was Niskanen and Wolf's favorite activity at the event. Even though they were not making them to represent anyone special, it was still entertaining. The dolls were made by wrapping different colored yarn around a toothpick-like figure, eventually making a person.
"The chocolate fondue is my favorite of the event," telecommunications major Brianna Davis said while dipping a strawberry in the chocolate fountain.
Davis was with a friend while doing a class project on the event.
Many of the other attendants were members of UPB and felt the event was a good idea because not everyone likes the holiday.
"Offering an anti-Valentine's Day event gives students an alternative way to celebrate Valentine's Day," UPB program director Ashleigh Morgan said. "Valentine's Day is a very stereotypical commercial holiday, and this is just something different."
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