Plenty of things can be done in the dark, and a group of students proved that Sunday evening during their Power Down Hour in the Residence Halls.

Sunday, March 28, from 4-5 p.m., Resident Advisers encouraged students in the residence halls to turn off all lights and electronics in order to conserve energy.

The Power Down Hour is a new movement taken by the Dream Green Team, a Resident Adviser Sustainability Committee.

Sunday was the third month the residence halls participated in the “Power Down Hour,” which has claimed the last Sunday of every month for conserving energy.

“It’s all about baby steps,” Kreischer RA Brooke Mason said.

“Power Down Hour” was a collective idea put together by the Dream Green Team and was inspired somewhat by ‘Friday Night Lights,’ a group of students who turn the lights out in academic halls on Friday evenings after classes.

Mason said during the hour she walked the halls and reminded the residents she is in charge of to turn off the lights and unplug the electronics for the hour.

“They were excited to help,” she said. “They know that I’m all about being green, so they just chuckle and comply.”

She said that all of the rooms she visited unplugged or turned off at least one electronic.

“I would consider that a success,” Mason said.

Other RA’s have expressed excitement with the project.

“This is one of the best things we can do on a college campus,” said Lois Snavely. “As an RA, I have the great privilege of influencing my students to shut down everything for a mere hour on a night when they probably don’t have too much to do.”

Snavely said the hour on Sundays was a perfect time for her to plan fun programs that doesn’t require any electricity or plastic containers.

“Just one hour will significantly decrease the amount of impact we have on our community and environment,” Snavely said. “Hopefully [it] will give students an idea of what just an hour can do.”

Dream Green Team Adviser Nicholas Hennessy said he is currently ordering the statistics on how much money was saved for the University during that hour this Sunday. This process is most exciting for Kreischer RA Teddy Brown, who looked forward to seeing how much money the University would be saving after just an hour of less power.

And even though the students were kept inside because of the constant rain on Sunday, the night is considered a success for the group.

The next time for students to officially power down will be on April 25 at 4p.m., but any day is good for anyone to turn off the light switches and unplug anything that goes into an outlet, according to the Dream Green Team.

“One pebble dropped in a pond creates ripples of effects even after the pebble is long gone,” said Snavely, saying she looks forward to when more students become involved and decide to “power down” more than once a month.