BBC Pool party includes kayaking this year

By Jeffrey Pierre/Entertainment Director

In South Florida, the water is a summertime rite; with that, the Office of Campus Life at the Biscayne Bay Campus is looking to nurture an FIU summer tradition.

Campus Life is hosting its annual Summer Splash event titled, “Light Up the Night,” a pool party that will be held at the BBC Aquatic Center on Thursday, July 10.

“We wanted to bring a little life to BBC,” said Alexander Barrientos, a graduate assistant at Campus Life on planning the pool party. “This event should show students new to BBC that, number one, it exists and, number two, that we have a beautiful campus.”

Barrientos says the “Light Up the Night” pool party will include kayaking, free food, a camera booth and a disc jockey. This years’ collaboration with the BBC Recreation Center allowed the office of Campus Life to offer the kayaking service to students for free.

Kayaking by the bay is “one of the events people enjoy the most,” according to Barrientos, and is expected to bring in more students to the event than last year.

“Last year, it was pretty much just a pool party,” Barrientos said.

Campus Life’s initiative to promote an annual University pool party is something the office has put a lot of thought into.

“It’s not an event they should miss,” said Barrientos.

–news@fiusm.com