High Times At Worldfest

For the uninitiated, Worldfest is a three day event every semester where clubs recruit new members. Clubs setup booths in the Aloha Center and try to make the sale to venerable new students. It’s a decent system and one can meet a lot of interesting people and make good friends through the club system at BYU-Hawaii.

However, some clubs feel the need to play music ridiculously loud to draw attention to themselves.

At the risk of sounding like I’m playing the race card, I’m going forgo all formalities and formally play the race card — it’s those darn Polynesians!

The Samoan, Fijian and Tongan are the primary violators. The Fijian Club even took the liberty of hauling in some sub woofers.

What I’m trying to convey here is that it was loud. Real loud. There’s probably some deep cultural significances behind why the music was as loud as it was but alas I’m not qualified to comment on them. I will share a small bit of advice to all clubs: do not equate loudness with increased recruitment numbers.

We’ll file this one under “common sense.”

On that note, we officially have a Manga Club. Of course, I’m curious as to what one does in the Manga Club. Do they sit around as a group reading manga out loud? Maybe they dress up in costumes of their favorite manga characters? Or perhaps they go to anime conventions together?

Stereotypes, you got to love them!

May 5th, 2005 in Journal |