Throughout the semester students have enjoyed a variety of free movies in the Union Theater. The University Activities Organization has been providing students with free movies for years, adding a new night this week to bring in more students.
“We started showing the movie on Friday at 11 p.m. — it went from two to three nights,” said Jordan Ohler, president of UAO. “We wanted to give people an alternative to going to the bars, parties and going out in general.”
The success of the night has been a surprise and an accomplishment for the members of UAO, and is something that they will continue to do next semester.
“It has been our most attended night of the week, which has been very cool,” Ohler said. “Next semester we’ll still show the movies on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.”
The location for the movies has also changed this year, and is a big improvement on last year.
“This is our second semester being in the Union Theater,” Ohler said. “Before the completion of the Union we were in Olscamp, and the theater is much nicer than Olscamp.”
The movies for next semester are still up in the air, Ohler said. Until the end of the semester students have a chance to vote on which movies they want to see.
“We’re passing out surveys and we will show 12 of the movies on the survey,” Ohler said. “We are simply asking students to circle eight of the movies on the survey. UAO members have been taking them to residence halls and other meetings that they attend.”
The movies will start back up in the second week of the Spring 2003 semester, and UAO hopes to have continued success at bringing in students.
“Each night we are averaging about 150 students a night,” Ohler said. The Union Theater holds about 250 individuals, making UAO’s turn out a success.
UAO encourages students to vote on their movie choices by sending the titles of the movies (from the list in the fact box on Page 1) to them via e-mail at [email protected], or by stopping into the UAO office to fill out a survey.
“We’re all about students having a say,” Ohler said, “we simply want to understand what our students want and then give it to them.”
