Disappointing News

A post or so ago I shared about our finale for Up 'Til Dawn.  It was such an awesome experience, and we had an amazing outcome.  Well, after all the effort we put into this year and the past many years, our exec. board was given some sad news.  Up 'Til Dawn will be removed from Ball State's campus.  We are VERY disappointed.  We were notified about a little over a week ago, so now I've had some time to think about it and settle with the terms a little better than the day or week we received the news.

Our team did some digging and found out the reason they are removing us from campus is because the  Student Life office feels that Ball State students are not as interested in Up 'Til Dawn as they are in Dance Marathon.  If we are basing this on numbers it's not exactly true.  We have more participants than DM, the only difference is that the majority of our participants come from ESA (thank you girls) and their participants come from the rest of the greek system because they HAVE to be involved.  [ At this moment I like to think "which makes more sense having more students who WANT to participate, or less who are forced to participate"]  Anyways, we can't change Student Life's mind or force them to allow us to be on campus, we just have to accept it and work around it.

Lucky for us ESA is dedicated is considering hosting Up 'Til Dawn through their sorority.  They are such great girls, and I think this will be a great thing for them and for Up 'Til Dawn. 

Here are the links to the BSU Daily News articles if you want to read more about it:

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