So today we had our amazing Kiss the Animal Contest! This was a fundraiser for Psi Chi and we got 5 psychology faculty members to run for candidates to kiss a mysterious animal! Students and faculty members used $$ to vote for their favorite - or perhaps in this case - least favorite faculty member!
The candidates (and their final count of votes) were:
Dr. Schrader ($67)
Dr. Grover ($46)
Dr. Daniels ($32)
Dustin Elliott ($8.55)
Dr. MacDonald ($4.02)
What a success guys! It went off even better than the cabinet hoped for!
This is our wonderful secretary revved up the crowd before the grand reveal of the animal!
Faculty members waiting with bated breath! One of them has a clown-phobia...can you guess which one?
Josh and Myles (Psi Chi members) slowly bring forth the mysterious animal to be kissed! Dr. Schrader looks nervous!
...and the grand reveal:
Blossom - our fabulous female clown! Okay, I know you may think this is a cop-out but give us a chance to explain! We did try to get a real animal but a lot of red tape and bureaucracy involved with protecting animals from being harmed (by kissing!) prevented us from being able to get an animal on time. So we improvised - and did even better! Blossom did a SPECTACULAR JOB and we send her the warmest thanks and the sloppiest kisses in gratitude! She did a few magic tricks, entertained the public quite a bit, and then proceeded to make Dr. Schrader miss the balloon animal and kiss her cheek instead!
Blossom made all the faculty members kiss the balloon animal first and Dr. Schrader got to keep it as a souvenir!
So for those of you who missed the excitement you can watch our video on it here: Kiss the Animal Contest
Here are some parting pictures! We had great fun and those who participated we hope you did too! For those who couldn't make it we hope this blog and the facebook updates helped you experience some of it and we know you were there in spirit! Hope to see you guys at the next event!
A big thanks to Tasia (our fundraising chair - she's in the pic above), Amanda (our hardworking president), and Andrea (our wonderfully dedicated secretary)! All three worked very hard to make this event a success!
