Chloe McKay, Tanner Tomak, Kaden Velasquez
(Sox Harrison Stadium, Edinboro, PA – August 29, 2024)
Edinboro’s storied Art program has long celebrated the start of each school year with Aloha, a rush event for the department’s many clubs.
This year’s Aloha coincided with the football team’s first home game (on new AstroTurf with tartan end zones!) and the recent hiring of PennWest President Dr. Jon Anderson. Organizers capitalized on combined energies to throw a Luau Tailgate that welcomed the entire campus.
AVI Food Systems catered island-inspired pineapple chicken that fed 600 students. The Dean of the College of Education, Arts, and Humanities, capped the meal with a dessert of ice cream treats. Familiar to Erie audiences as a local radio personality, DJ Bill Page added a thumping soundtrack to the party while the University Programming Board gave away t-shirts and other favors.
Normally held on the lawn in front of Loveland Hall, this year’s festivities were relocated to the stadium, immediately adjacent to the ticket booth. Consequently, departmental courses and projects enjoyed broad exposure, since anyone going to the game encountered the Art Department clubs. Philm’s newly-organized Moving Pictures Guild was one of about 15 organizations that hosted recruitment and activity tables.
Aloha started at 5:00 pm and segued into the Fighting Scots’ season opener at 7:00. Edinboro lost to East Stroudsburg University, 12-24. See a gallery of event photos (taken by Photography professor Natasha Kravchenko and senior Riley Francis) here.