‘Floor Wars’ ignites friendly competition

By Jeff Brodeur
brodeurj@mytjnow.com

The resident assistants of Margaret Nance hosted their annual “Field Day” this past Friday, an event held on the lawn in front of Winthrop’s all-female residence hall. 

Daven Johnson, one of the RA’s who helped plan the event, said that this was only a glimpse of what has been going on at Margaret Nance throughout the week.

“All week, each floor and corridor have been competing against each other in activities and contests,” she said.  “Field day is the final event for the week.”

As for the rest of the week, Monday was a floor decorating competition, Tuesday was a state fair baking competition, Wednesday was trivia night and Thursday was a “Dress your RA” competition in which the residents had to make an outfit for their RA to model using only tape and newspaper.

“Throughout the week, we had an anonymous Miss Margaret Nance pageant and Penny wars where residents would put pennies into their own jar for positive points and silver coins and dollars into opposing floors jars for negative points,” Johnson said. “All money collected went to Safe Passage.”

As for the Friday event, girls gathered outside of Margaret Nance to compete in a series of events such as a three-legged relay, hula hoops, tug-of-war and an egg toss.

Even though Floor Wars was all about having fun, Daven’s floor walked away with the bragging rights as her floor took first place. Callie Boyer’s floor was the runner-up, while Ashley Thorpe and Chelsea Brown’s floor tied for third.