Wiikend hosted by Indiana Wesleyan University’s Student Activity Council (SAC) wrapped up
all of their events on Sept. 13-14.
SAC Weekend has been rebranded to Wiikend, filled with nostalgic Wii-themed events across campus.
“This year we wanted to rebrand a little bit differently and do something exciting and new. We made it a
Wii-themed Wiikend,” SAC Member Lauren Siegers said.
One of the major events hosted each year is the Glow Dance. This year, the dance was Just Dance style on
the IWU football field.

“Previous years it was paint and water getting thrown at you. Now they’re changing it up,” IWU student
DJ Heard-Perry said. “They also have Just Dance, which is new.”
Ryan Mattix, an employee for Sound, Light and Media for IWU, was a part of setting everything up on the
technical side for the Just Dance Glow Party.
“[The SAC] crew were really great people and working with them was very nice,” Mattix said. “The
theme of the Wiikend is hilarious to me and I really love the idea.”
The planning behind SAC Wiikend and the Just Dance Glow Party has been in full motion for about five
months.
“Our team this year is really committed to creativity and balancing tradition with novelty. So we had
some brainstorming sessions in May and then this was the outcome,” Siegers said.
SAC is the student-led organization that strives to enrich the college experience by creating and running
events throughout the school years. Each year these events become more involved and see more participation.
“People are more engaged with the actual [Just Dance] screen and actually being able to participate in it,
and it’s been really cool and I’m really excited to see what else they have in store,” Maddix said.
Each event SAC hosts allows more opportunities for students to participate in fun on campus on the
weekends.
“In previous years, kids just leave campus because of lack of events or just lack of entertainment from the
event, so this is definitely a new change,” Heard-Perry said.
SAC Wiikend was filled with many other events in addition to the Just Dance Glow Party.
“This weekend we have Just Dance first,” Siegers said. “Then we have Dogs and Donuts [Saturday]
morning, which is connected to the Animal Crossing Wii game, and then we have a Mario Kart Balloon
Battle on Saturday evening.”
SAC hosts the annual country themed Homecoming dance, Fallapalooza on Oct. 18 on Shatford Lawn.

The grounds crew does more than just take care of the grass and flower beds. These individuals also do greenhouse management, irrigation, sidewalks, snow and ice removal, bee hive maintenance, design and waste and recycling.

Christi Wolgemuth, a flower and landscape bed specialist with the IWU grounds crew, emphasizes the attention to detail that the grounds department has across campus.

“A lot of people don’t realize how much goes into the process of the flowers. We are already getting ready to get a flower order ready for next year. We look at what we liked, what we didn’t like and new flowers that are coming out on the market,” Wolgemuth said.

Kenna Smith, a student desk worker for facilities, has been able to see the behind-the-scenes work for the past three years, being in charge of work orders, labor hours and computer work.

“You walk around campus and see all the flowers and landscaping, and it’s obviously well taken care of. The workers with the grounds crew do a great job at what they do and put a lot of hours into maintaining all the flowers and the landscaping,” Smith said.

Maintaining the beauty across the campus is something that many students don’t notice until the flowers are blooming and the grass is green. The grounds crew covers many jobs, fulfilling many responsibilities.

“(The biggest thing people don’t know is) the scope of what we do and all the hats we wear,” Wolgemuth said. “There are a lot of jobs that sometimes go unseen. That’s mainly to us working behind the scenes.”

Addy Coates, a student worker for the project crew, works with planting, maintaining and watering flowers across campus. Coates has continued to come back to work with facilities for three years because of the group of people.

“The community that we have together as a department makes us different. We care about each other a lot, and it’s more than a job,” Coates said. “That’s why some of these students keep coming back here; because they love the environment, they love the workers and it’s just fun to be here.”

The facilities’ grounds crew prides themselves in providing impressive work for the campus.

Much of this work goes unseen by students and faculty but is intentional and thorough to give the campus the best look possible.