MUNCIE, Ind. - Wednesday evening, students had the opportunity to eat the Monster Mash Meal. The meal was a culinary crawl through the east side dining locations on campus. Students started the crawl at Kinghorn, where they got their choice of an appetizer. The crawl then continued. Students could get a dirty soda at Studebaker West, a salad at Noyer, pasta at Woodworth, and ice cream at the Multicultural Center.
Melissa Nagle, who came up with the idea, says she wanted to help students know more of the locations on campus and bring attention to some of the less-visited dining markets.
“We wanted a way to get the students involved and learn where other buildings are on campus,” she said.
Nagle also teaches a course on campus, and she noticed that some students didn’t know where Studebaker West was. And Nagle decided to incorporate her love for Halloween into a yummy, but useful tour. As students traveled from location to location, signs helped point them in the right direction. Each dining location was also decorated in spirit for the event. Many of the inflatable decorations came straight from Nagle’s personal collection. A fan favorite of the night was the singing pumpkins in Noyer. A simple but effective trick, the pumpkins sang “The Monster Mash” as they were projected from a screen. The event was sure to put everyone in the Halloween spirit. Students said the event was great, commenting on how much they liked the taste of the dirty soda from Studebaker West.
Nagle says she and the dining services hope to make the event a yearly tradition and hope to have more dining events like this one in the future.
Contact Addison Hampshire with comments at addison.hampshire@bsu.edu
