APB, RLCA Host Campus' First Glow Party

By Keli Demertzis

Add haze machines, pulsing music and students with glowing, neon bodies to a blacklit Locatelli Center, and you have Santa Clara's first on-campus electronic music event.

The Activities Programming Board and Residential Learning Community Association will host Electric Daisy Clara on Wednesday night.

"We know that there is a huge electronic music crowd here at (Santa Clara) and (we) wanted to put on an event that would cater to those students," said Alex Sola-Guinto, APB's assistant music director.

According to Sola-Guinto, Santa Clara students have recently shown a lot of interest in electronic music events. For example, last month's Don't Bring Sand to the Beach, the electronic music event sponsored by student-run Leve1 Events, attracted over 800 attendees.

EDC is an attempt to cater to these student interests in a free and safe on-campus environment, explained Sola-Guinto.

The event's name was inspired by Electric Daisy Carnival, the annual electronic music festival originally hosted in Los Angeles but recently moved to Las Vegas in 2011.

"At first, I thought the name was pretty cheesy, but it caught on," said Sola-Guinto. "It rolls off the tongue."

EDC, which is open to all Santa Clara students, will include elements inspired by its namesake. As the university's first Glow Party, EDC will take place in a black-lit Locatelli Center, complete with haze machines and laser lights.

Free professional body painters will be available for the first hour of the event on Wednesday, to paint students before entering the venue.

The event will feature several student DJs: senior Rian Draeger as DJ Draegerbombs, Jesse Brakey as DJ Brakes, and junior David Belogolovsky as DJ3W. Junior Trevor Wright's blog, Th3clara.com, which covers Santa Clara's off-campus party scene, helped APB's search to find "the best student talents," said Sola-Guinto.

APB will also give out free items to the event's attendees, including Rockstar energy drinks, glow sticks, wristbands and glasses.

Sola-Guinto insisted that EDC is not a rave, which may have negative connotations.

"We wanted to throw an event that caters to both on-campus and off-campus students — something they'd have fun going to on Wednesday night," he said.

Contact Keli Demertzis at kdemertzis@scu.edu or call (408) 554-4852.