On April 10, Student Congress (STUCO) held the long-awaited Stop Day. There was a series of activities scheduled for students throughout the day.
Events kicked off bright and early with STUCO members waking up students with air horns and speakers with loud music at 7 a.m., letting everyone know it was Stop Day.
All meals were available in the dining hall on the usual weekday schedule.
The day was packed with fun activities like t-shirt giveaways, sand volleyball competitions, cornhole tournaments and a canoe race on Doane Lake.
President Hughes also participated in Stop Day by doing the “Ice Bucket Challenge” for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) awareness. The challenge consisted of STUCO president Senior Blake Skoumal throwing a bucket of water and ice on President Hughes; he also nominated several presidents from colleges of the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC), as well as the head football coach of Kansas State University.
Some of the other activities for students included the Lakeside Relaxation Station, where students were able to stop by and relax. There was a Tie-Dye Station as well for students to decorate their Stop Day shirts.
Finally, the day concluded with free food from Raising Cane’s, a spicy wing-eating contest and the Doane Idol event, where Greek life and several students performed different skits. Doane Idol’s winners were the members of Delta Kappa Pi fraternity.
According to students, Stop Day was fun and a good way to relax by the end of the semester.
“Everything was very well organized and fun,” freshman Mateo Jelicich said, who joined Doane this spring. “I liked the canoe race—it was competitive, I liked that.”
