I’m back in town and (very VERY slowly) getting back into the swing of things, and I stumbled across this Echo story, “Free food, sun draw crowd to campus picnic.” The EMU home page is rotating some images in the masthead, but no pictures with this article.
I was struck by this sentence: “Unofficial accounts from members of the food services department estimated the turnout between 3,000-5,000.” There’s a big difference between 3,000 and 5,000, so I’m not so sure about this estimate. Was anyone there? Any guesses on the size of the event and/or other impressions?
The picnic was amazing. Being an EMU picnic newbie, I figured a couple hundred would show up. But if the sun shines and you grill them (hot dogs), they will come. More than 1,000. And people were great about forming the “Big, Fat Zero” under the sun. We took our cue from folks on the Student Center roof filming the event and gave several long cheers. It showed what a community EMU is. Pix of the formation were reprinted in aa.com, MLIVE and even USA TODAY.
Agree with Geoff, that was a great event.