Body paint comes in handy at Tridelt's crush party.
Spend the week successfully celebrating your favorite Mexican holiday? A little too much tequila make you forget just how you spent your Wednesday night? Take off your sombrero and catch up with this week’s Party Report, after the jump.
Wednesday Night: Off-Campus Cinco de Mayo
A pair of neighbors off-campus finally combine their apartments for a party after tossing the idea around all year. And the consensus is that they should’ve done it earlier. The weather is just warm enough to have the two beer pong tables in the backyard, making for a sprawling outdoor get-together whose atmosphere is “kind of state school.” We worry that someone’s eye is going to get taken out with the sorority pledge paddle being used for the Cinco de Mayo pinata, but thankfully, everyone goes home unharmed.
Wednesday: Tridelt Crush Party at Zella’s
Heed this advice, social planners: Patios (please, don’t call them “beer gardens”) are what make spring quarter events special. So do as Tridelt did Wednesday, and redeem your choice of a vanilla venue in Lincoln Park by ensuring that it has a well-landscaped outdoor courtyard. Still, with the exceptions of the unruly few who were escorted out, we’re sort of amazed this 60s-themed soiree went as smoothly as it did, considering how brazenly (and drunkenly) on-the-prowl most of the attendees were. By 11, when Zella’s closed its patio, couples new and old were all we could see.
Thursday: Woe and Drinks at the Mid-Quarter Deuce
Apparently midterms continue, as karaoke night at the Deuce utterly failed to live up to expectations. An unexpected influx of Pi Phi formal postgamers and foreign students lend some excitement to the crowd of older regulars, but by and large the grizzled vets greet the low-key night with an urge to get as obliterated as possible. R.I.P. Mark II, R.I.P.
Friday Night: Fratty Birthday
As the clock strikes midnight on one frat boy’s birthday he’s…wearing a sarape and puking? In true 21-year-old style, someone consolingly offers up a bottle of Jack. Throughout the rest of the house, myriad ’90s tunes are pumping and people are drunkenly screeching and taking turns wearing the aforementioned sarape. But parties seem more subdued lately since the house became a “no drinking near the technology” zone after a tipsy girl spilled a margarita and ruined someone’s fancy laptop a month ago. Try getting salt out of the keyboard after an incident like that.
Friday Night: Environmental Fundraiser at Church and Oak
In an attempt to reduce-reuse-recycle, the hosts charge a ridiculous $2 premium to guests who don’t bring their own cups. We’re all gonna throw these Solo cups out by the end of the night, so what difference does it make? That’s not the only sign that NU’s greenest students aren’t so accustomed to this whole partying thing: Among other things, they lack an iTunes playlist. At least the booze is aplenty: One of the house’s senior residents swipes a gallon of Carlo Rossi and chills with his friends in his room, proving that the best parties are usually the private ones.
