In an effort to increase student attendance, StuCo is replacing the traditional Winter Homecoming dance with a trivia night. The trivia night will take place Friday, Feb. 2 at the end of an MV Productions themed spirit week. The traditional Homecoming Court will still be nominated despite this change.

Even with the recent snow days, StuCo Sponsor Faith Bilyeu remains confident in the StuCo members’ ability to plan and execute the event.

“StuCo looked at alternatives, gave the student body a survey, collaborated with admin, and in the end decided to have a MV Productions themed Spirit week,” Bilyeu said via email. “We are starting with nominating our Winter Royalty and ending with a Trivia Night after the basketball game.”

Student Body Secretary Elly VanRheen, who is leading the planning group in charge of managing community involvement for the event, anticipates more student involvement than in the past. 

“I think we’re really trying to make this something that people enjoy attending,” VanRheen said. “In previous years, WOCO was a very low attended event and there wasn’t a lot of involvement throughout the week. On top of that, the people who were a part of the court were not as excited about it as we would want them to be.”

Student Body Vice President Preston Fischer, who leads a planning group devoted to the execution of the trivia night, believes that even with the change students will be able to enjoy themselves at the event.

“I’m definitely excited to see how the students react to it. I think we’ve got really good prizes for them to have and I think it will be a lot of fun,” Fischer said. 

VanRheen hopes that students embrace the change of the trivia night.

“I’m excited because it’s going to be something different,” VanRheen said. “I want people to make it their own and have their own spin on it so that they have fun, because we can provide this event but people are only going to have fun if they let themselves.”