About 500 students celebrated the end of Welcome Week at Wet ‘n’ Wild on Wednesday night, RHA adviser Amanda Kuster said.
The event started at 8 p.m. and lasted until 10 p.m. A line of students quickly developed about 10 minutes outside Arkansas Hall before the event started. Students were required to fill out a waiver to participate on the inflatable obstacle course, water slide and bouncy house.
“To be here, it feels like we’re at a summer camp right now and it’s just impressive,” freshman Billy Buck said. “It’s interesting. It’s fantastic. We’re all having a great time so far.”
At the amphitheater, a DJ played popular top 40 songs on stage — such as Miley Cyrus’s “We Can’t Stop” and V.I.C.’s “Wobble” — that students danced to while standing on benches and around the stage.
At about 9:30 p.m., the winner of the Battle of the Halls was announced. Arkansas Hall, reigning champions from the 2012 competition, won the event and Farris Hall won Most Spirited.
Three student organizations sponsored the event: the Resident Housing Association, Sophomore Year Experience and the Social Justice League.
Kuster said attendance at this year’s Wet ‘n’ Wild was at least double than of the 2012 event.
“We advertised a lot better for this,” she said. “We had door hangers in residential halls, and just today my [executive]board members sat at Conway Daze and promoted Wet ‘n’ Wild. We’ve been advertising like crazy.”
Kuster said she enjoyed Wet ‘n’ Wild and added she believes the event will “be better and better every year.”
