SA Hosts Among Us Game Night Before Record Breaking Snow Hits Lincoln

Well. Last week was exciting. A record amount of snow, the last SA zoom event before we return to in-person events and not one, but TWO snow days. Saturday night began with a game of Among Us on Zoom hosted by SA. Participants were broken up into groups of about 10, with two SA members hosting the game. Each group played for eight to 10 games or for an hour, whichever was reached first. If the crewmates won, each crewmember got one entry in a raffle for one of three prizes, including a pair of Air Force 1s and a $100 Scheels gift card. If the Imposters won, each Imposter got three entries toward the raffle of their choice.

  The fun continued into Sunday night when Dr. Frankie Rose sent out an email saying school was canceled Monday. I happened to be in the student center when the text alert hit the students’ phones and the excitement in the room was tangible. Small groups formed talking about it. In the past four years, it has been rare for Union to cancel classes before snow has even hit, so this came as a surprise. The snow started softly Sunday evening and continued steadily throughout the night and all through Monday. Then came the news that Lincoln Public Schools canceled school for Tuesday, and shortly after, Union was also canceling classes on Tuesday, besides a few exceptions like EMT class, which still met. 

According to an Instagram poll, students spent their days off in a myriad of ways: There was a lot of sleeping, several people procrastinated, while others were good students and did homework (apparently I was not a good student last week) and of course there was a fair amount of sledding. It would be a shame to waste such a good snow! Even though it is still early in the semester, it was a greatly appreciated relaxing week. (Being part of a history-making snow storm was pretty cool too!)

Jade Covel is a senior

religion major from

Topeka, Kan.