Hassayampa Pavilion had a taste of winter for a few hours Wednesday night.
Snowballs whizzed overhead and students on toboggans skidded down a small mountain of snow at the Harry Potter-themed ASYule Ball.
Though the snow slide was delayed for two hours because of strategic difficulties with the Arizona Iceman truck providing the slide, a group of devoted students remained to partake in the sledding.
“People love snow because they never get to see it,” said Tylor Hawkins, one of the Residence Hall Association coordinators of the program.
He said they also had a snow slide last year.
“We took a program that’s been going on for a couple years. Each year it’s gotten a little better,” Hawkins said.
Hawkins said the entire project cost under $3,000, with the snow slide costing around $1,000.
Students had to sign waivers to participate in the snow slide.
Fellow RHA programmer Jessa Short said Barrett, the Honors College, Hassayampa Academic Village and Cholla Apartments organized the event.
Going down the slide was fun, though not quite worth the two-hour wait, management sophomore Michaela Maliske said.
Strands of gold lights and tables with snack platters and crafts surrounded the perimeter of the courtyard. RHA staff handed out slices of cake frosted with the Deathly Hallows symbol from the Harry Potter book series.
Butterbeer, a concoction of vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce and cream soda, was also popular among the clusters of students.
“I imagined apple in it actually,” said mechanical engineering freshman Zachary Velarde as he sipped from a cup of butterbeer.
As You Wish, an Arizona pottery-painting studio, had a table full of paint and ceramic holiday ornaments to decorate. Employee Caty Page said As You Wish will glaze them for each person.
“I’m just going to take (the ornaments) back to Tempe and have them fire everything and get it all wrapped up,” Page said.
While roughly 100 students waited for Arizona Iceman to feed hundreds of bags of ice into a shredder, they danced to songs like “Sexy and I Know It” by LMFAO and RHA raffled off scarves in Harry Potter house colors.
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