Jackets After Dark, a division of Yellow Jacket Activity Board, hosted its first formal event of the semester, End of Summer Bash, in the Student Activity Center on Sept. 15 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. including an afterparty from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m.

Jason Luck, president of YJAB, worked on this event with the After Dark coordinators including Brooke Walburn, senior creative writing major and Greta Graffius, junior early childhood education major. The event was originally not planned to be an end of summer bash, Luck said.

“They wanted to fill a niche of hosting an event that anybody can come to and it being towards the end of the year,” Luck said. “when we realized that the solstice is around that time, that’s how it came to be.”

Luck said that the the theme of the End of Summer Bash as “summer energy” with oranges, pinks and blues as the color scheme.

“It’s like a sunset of transition from summer into fall,” Walburn said.

Walburn said her and her fellow cordinators have missed having an aspect of a formal dance. They wanted something similar to dances in highschool since college dance usually require you to be part of an organization, Walburn said.

“We wanted to plan that, especially for freshmen who are used to having a dance, to feel a sense of normalcy,” Walburn said.

Graffius said that her and the other coordinators bounced ideas on what they thought they were going to include as the aspect of the dance.

“An idea one of our peers in the group had was having a calm area upstairs…we [hoped] to have coloring pages for people who want to come to dance, although not participate in the dancing aspect, ” Graffius said.

The afterparty had karaoke alongside a variety of sweet treats including soft serve milkshakes, Hawaiian ice and orange and rootbeer floats.

Walburn said that they hope the event encouraged people to become involved on campus.

“[Its] an excuse to dress up and feel good about themselves and go spend the night with people they really care about,” Walburn said.