This. Is. Fight Week!!! Day 1

The morning started off with an eager girl waking up and screaming "HAPPY FIGHT WEEK!!!!!!!!!" No matter where you were on campus, I can guarantee that you heard someone yelling it somewhere. I know this because that girl was me. All our hard work is finally being displayed. The Compliment and Conflict Booth was set up and a number of people seemed to be submitting a lot of cards. The booth ran from 11am to 3pm. Then at 5pm Capture the Flag was supposed to take place.

Despite the rainy Monday afternoon, 13 students engaged in many games of Capture the Flag on Case Green. It started with two students setting up. It slowly grew to three, four, and five. Before we knew it, there was enough people for a five on five game. "That was our goal!!" exclaimed Chris, one of the day leaders. Extremely excited to get the game going again, everyone split into random teams, not caring who was on what team since everyone seemed to only know about a third of the group. Shortly after they began to play three more students joined in, not entirely sure why we were playing. "Who cares, it's fun." With an odd number of people and me nearly dying from running too much, I chose to sit out for the remainder of the games to come. I instead stepped into my natural habitat of picture taking. I documented every slip, slide, steal, and prisoner throughout the rest of the evening. The teams switched sides after every win and no one kept track of how many times each team won. Since there were not real boundaries, we weren't entirely sure who won most of the time.

But that's the beauty of mediation. In the end, the goal is to meet the needs of both parties. No compromises. Just collaboration. We started this game with a goal to win Capture the Flag. We left realizing our underlying need of just having fun on a rainy afternoon. The success of this event certainly raised the bar for the rest of Fight Week to come. But with Fight Club strongly working together, the week will be nothing but successful in the eyes of their beloved members.

Up next:
Tuesday-- Drinking Dialogue on the second floor of dhall at 7pm and then Fight Club screening at 9pm in Gannett.
Wednesday--Stomach Knots/Bitter Rage in the ICC at 7:30pm
Thursday--Top O' the Tang SCREAMFest at 8pm on top of the Tang
Friday--Collaborative Concert for Conflict Resolution at 4pm on Case Green.

Be sure to keep an eye out for each event's write up. Until then... Laters!