Realizing Our Cause ROCs it out

Three-legged races, pie eating competitions and a blow-up boxing ring.

What does this have to do with Christianity? CFCC's Christian fellowship club, Realizing Our Cause (ROC), held an event on Feb. 24, that had all of these games and more.

The club, which holds weekly bible discussions, used the Center Lawn during the activity hour to bring their organization awareness.

Once students signed up for an e-mail offering information about ROC, they could move down a buffet line of sorts eating pizza, popcorn, cotton candy and snow cones.

Over 100 students got involved in the event, whether watching the action, playing the games, eating food or listening to Christian rock.

There were two blow-up jousting tournaments: one for the ladies and one for the guys. The winner of the final round received $20.

Kari Wedderburn, 19, engineering major participated in the jousting tournament, but was eliminated before the finals.

"It was a lot of fun," Wedderburn said. "I want to do it some more but I have to go to work."

The club hosted such a variety of games that the event lasted from 11:30-1 p.m. There was a pie eating contest, a scavenger hunt for a $25 gift certificate, a three legged race for the prize of a pizza and more.

One of these games was something called land-sledding.

Groups of three people had to crowd together onto wooden planks (land skis) and use ropes to guide themselves across the finish line. The groups had to "ski" across a large portion of the lawn, turn around a light post and come back.

The game, which took great team-work was a race between two groups at a time. The group who won the final round received a $10 i-tunes gift certificate.

Although a lot of students were not aware of the event until they saw it that day, many joined in the fun. One such student, Brandon Patton, 20, architectural drafting student, competed in the pie-eating contest but did not win.

"It was awesome," Patton said, "It was alright that I lost. You can't win them all."