’Tis the Season to Be Jolly and Quiet
Students Have Left for the Holidays
Isla Vista residents get an unexpected gift every year around this time. Following a flurry of parties and other celebrations marking the end of the quarter or semester, students leave en masse to visit their families, go skiing, etc. Before they do, however, there is often some interesting activity.
Most of the revelry centers casually around beer and pop music, but every once in a while there is a party that is a little bit different. Last weekend, a group of students hosted a skate party that also doubled as a winter formal. The flier advertising the event said it would feature a BBQ, deejay, and shralping ( according to one definition this is shredding, ripping, and crushing all at the same time). Representatives from the Church of Skatan and Shorty’s sponsored the event, which began in the afternoon and extended long into the early morning hours.
Unlike normal I.V. parties, attendees brought their skateboards and tried out an approximately 25-foot-long by 25-foot-wide half-pipe, made out of plywood and set up in the backyard. Tessa Bergheger Orach, a Shorty’s representative who helped plan the event, said that the party was one of several held throughout the year. She said that the enormous half-pipe that was the party’s main attraction had recently been dismantled but was rebuilt with the help of some Church of Skatan representatives.
