Students traded in their lingerie for long underwear before attending Bauhaus this past Saturday.
In prior years, Bauhaus has enjoyed widespread attendance, with as many as 1,800 to 2,000 students filling Givens’ parking lot and still others photocopying friends’ highly coveted tickets. This past weekend, the event saw an attendance of 1,600. President of the Architecture School Council (ASC) Sydnor Scholer attributed the lower numbers to “finals time, the weather, and the late date.”
Junior Andrew Stern, a vice president of ASC, did not believe the complications surrounding Bauhaus hurt the party.
“It was a great turnout. We were a little concerned because of the weather and it had to be pushed back because of schedule conflicts. The fact that everyone still came dressed up was a lot of fun.”
In hopes of making this year’s theme “Pass Le Corbusier” more prominent, ASC exhibited a display with Corbusier building books in the Olin library. Decorations inspired by Corbusier’s design adorned the tent. Stern thought they were successful in tactfully getting their message across.
“It’s hard to tell how well it was received without doing a survey, but there were a lot of subtle hints we placed,” said Stern.
Senior Gina Anderson felt that though the event was a success, the turnout was noticeably smaller.
“I went sort of early, from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. and by the end there was a pretty solid turnout,” said Anderson. “I had gone at the same time last year, and by 9:30 p.m. the tent was full of people. By the same time this year it took much longer and nobody was outside.”
Anderson, who came as Shrek, noted that many of the partygoers ended up tailoring their costumes to weather the cold.
“A lot of peoples’ costumes were based on the fact that it was really cold. People were wearing jeans and their sweaters under their costume. They were making their costumes keeping in mind that they didn’t want to die,” said Anderson. “My costume was of green fleece. I had ears.it was pretty phenomenal.”
Junior Jon Gerstenhaber, who came as a cowboy, also felt the effects of the weather and time changes this year.
“People had to change costumes and such, which was kind of annoying,” said Gerstenhaber. “There were fewer people there.it also seemed like it ended way too early.”
Gerstenhaber and Anderson both felt that the goal of educating students, however, was not very well conveyed.
“Last year [the theme] was really obvious, but this year I didn’t know what it was,” said Gerstenhaber.
“The theme was carried through, in the sense that the decorations followed the T-shirt,” said Anderson. “But I don’t know how much they were informing students, necessarily. I don’t think there was a general comprehension.”
To improve upon this year’s event, Scholer explained that planning for next year’s Bauahus has already begun.
ASC intends to schedule the party early to avoid conflicts.