This week at the University of New Mexico, Chairman Seymour Butz of UNM Planning and Events made a revolutionary change to how the University parties. In theme with all the recent renovations on campus, the events’ vanguard began working on a new way to appease the UNM student body and the ever-evolving trends that students love to stay up to date on.
The idea they’ve come up with: Loud Disco.
“No one’s ever done this!” Butz said. “When my father, Seymour Butz the first, came to UNM and was in this same position, he had come up with the idea of the silent disco which had taken the world by storm.”
UNM is set to be the first university to host a Loud Disco event and is excited at the prospects and challenges it may bring.
Butz said he anticipates loud disco will bring first-of-its-kind technology and bleeding edge solutions.
“Well, for starters, it’s going to be the first ever disco done without headphones. I mean, where are we going to get enough speakers to cover an entire ballroom? And without the six or seven DJs that we usually have, we’ll have to have a singular DJ playing music that everyone likes. Probably Michael Jackson or something,” Butz said.
Some students seem excited by the idea of a Loud Disco. In a recent poll taken by the vanguard, around 69% of students are excited to attend the Loud Disco, with another 67% hoping they can get in line in time.
Seymour’s brother, Holden Butz, said students could look forward to several benefits with loud disco.
“I mean, we won’t have to take our headphones off to talk and we’re all going to be listening to the same music. That has to do something to the brain or something,” Holden Butz said. “I think it’ll be really nice to go dance with friends for a night rather than go to the bar and stare at our phones while we wait for a pool table.”
Multiple free audiologists will be on site to help students with this transition to Loud Disco.
Camillo Cretara is a freelance reporter for the Daily Lobo. He can be reached at culture@dailylobo.com or on X @DailyLobo
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