It may have been 30 degrees outside, but inside at the top of the Student Union Building (SUB) things were hot and sizzling Feb. 8 at Casino Night: Lucky Luau.
Campus Activities Board (CAB) puts on Casino Night once every year, providing students a night of fun and a break from studying.
Students put on lei’s and were instantly intoxicated by the mystic and exotic magic of the night.
The top of the SUB was filled with black jack tables, slot machines, poker tables and the roulette-wheel.
Students excitedly rampaged from one casino game to the next.
Matthew Petch, a junior kinesiology major from Calhoun, expressed his enjoyment of the evening.
“I’ve been down on my luck tonight, but I’ve really enjoyed playing the roulette-wheel. I’ve never gotten to play it before,” said Petch.
Petch offered some casino advice.
“Don’t bet on red when playing roulette,” Petch said.
Aimee Foret, a junior psychology major from Lockport, loved attending Casino night this year.
“I’m glad CAB put on this event. It gives me something fun to do other than study,” Foret said.
During all the casino games, other contests were going on as well, such as a limbo and a hula contest.
Limbo winner, Aleesha Nullins, a senior General Studies major from Columbus, Miss., received a $50 gift card to Wal-mart.
The Hula dance-off between Kristen Lagarde, a senior kinesiology major from Slidell and Amit Rajkarnikar, a junior biology major from Nepal created an interesting distraction.
Rajkarnikar knew how to “shake it like a salt shaker,” and was deemed the winner of a $50 gift card to Wal-mart.
At the end of the night students “cashed-in” their winnings for raffle tickets. The raffle winnings consisted of a Wal-mart gift card, a DVD player, a Flip, a Nook, an Ipod and an Xbox Kinect.
Many students tested their luck, and many found it, but probably the most envied and luckiest student of all was the winner of the Xbox Kinect, Kasey Wright, a senior psychology major from West Monroe.
