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Club, Admin differ on dance
by Quinn Lockwood
News | 10/2/07
Posted online at 8:18 PM EST on 10/1/07
/ Last updated at 4:20 AM EST on 10/1/07
While the Liquid Latex Club's coordinators say their initially cancelled fall dance was rescheduled for the first or second week of November, the Department of Student Activities maintains that it still hasn't approved.
Liquid Latex's coordinators Scott Frost '09 and Dianne Ma '09 met Sept. 20 with Director of Student Activities Stephanie Grimes to reschedule the club's "Anything But Clothes" dance, which was cancelled by the administration last month due to concerns over its sexually provocative theme, Ma said. Grimes, however, said that she is still in negotiations with the campus performance arts group over the dance's logistics.
Earlier in September, Grimes had informed Liquid Latex via e-mail that the dance-which was originally scheduled for Sept. 15-wouldn't be allowed because its theme didn't diverge enough from the "Less you Wear, Less you Pay" dance that the club held in previous years. Members of the group were dismayed that the dance was cancelled just eight days before its scheduled date.
"The club was not told in a time-efficient manner what the status of the dance was," Grimes said. "That is a legitimate concern."
After three students at last fall's "Less you wear" dance were transported to the hospital for alcohol intoxication, the administration determined that the annual dance posed safety risks and should be held in a different format.
While students were charged between $1 and $4 to get into the "Less you Wear" dance based on how much clothing they wore, the admission price for the "Anything But Clothes" dance will be based on the creativity of students' attire, also on a scale of $1 to $4.
The revised version of the dance is still in Dean of Student Life Rick Sawyer's "time-out corner," Grimes said. She explained that when she first met with Liquid Latex planners to discuss the event, she felt it still wasn't centered enough on creativity.
"They hadn't really changed the culture of the dance," Grimes said. "There is a difference between freedom of expression and indecent exposure."
Liquid Latex's coordinators Scott Frost '09 and Dianne Ma '09 met Sept. 20 with Director of Student Activities Stephanie Grimes to reschedule the club's "Anything But Clothes" dance, which was cancelled by the administration last month due to concerns over its sexually provocative theme, Ma said. Grimes, however, said that she is still in negotiations with the campus performance arts group over the dance's logistics.
Earlier in September, Grimes had informed Liquid Latex via e-mail that the dance-which was originally scheduled for Sept. 15-wouldn't be allowed because its theme didn't diverge enough from the "Less you Wear, Less you Pay" dance that the club held in previous years. Members of the group were dismayed that the dance was cancelled just eight days before its scheduled date.
"The club was not told in a time-efficient manner what the status of the dance was," Grimes said. "That is a legitimate concern."
After three students at last fall's "Less you wear" dance were transported to the hospital for alcohol intoxication, the administration determined that the annual dance posed safety risks and should be held in a different format.
While students were charged between $1 and $4 to get into the "Less you Wear" dance based on how much clothing they wore, the admission price for the "Anything But Clothes" dance will be based on the creativity of students' attire, also on a scale of $1 to $4.
The revised version of the dance is still in Dean of Student Life Rick Sawyer's "time-out corner," Grimes said. She explained that when she first met with Liquid Latex planners to discuss the event, she felt it still wasn't centered enough on creativity.
"They hadn't really changed the culture of the dance," Grimes said. "There is a difference between freedom of expression and indecent exposure."
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