By Kaijia Gao//Campus Activity Board(CAB) is a very popular club that organizes events and activities for students at Hood College, May Madness is the biggest event coming this year.

CAB is formed by six executive members, 20 board members, a club chair and a club adviser. The club always makes sure to organize an event on campus or off campus at least once a week. CAB has held several big successful events like May Madness, Messiah semi-formal dance, Fall Frenzy, New York trips and pool parties.

Le Nguyen, the associate chair of series events, said “When we run an event, we use half an hour or one hour to set up time. And we usually need five people running an event.”

Nguyen said CAB try to keep a variety of different events on campus, so the club does not repeat the same events in one semester.

Annie Mercer, the Campus activities board chair, said, “The way that we do our events is we have a kind of list in our head that students traditionally likes. We get together, and we think about all different things that we have done in the past and then we look at our calendars see the best way to put these on the calendar. ”

Nguyen said the CAB members goal is trying to do their best to make more new trips and game shows for the students.

To set up an event, club members also need to think about the budgets. For big events, like trips, it takes about $1,000. If there is not enough money for the event, CAB will delay that project until next semester or later.

“We do not have an endless budget, so we do have to make concession on things and we try to plan larger events and events that do not cost much money,” Mercer said, “and I don’t know how much money we have exactly.”

This year, adviser Don Miller left, so Gretchen Nonemaker is the new adviser who works along with the club.

“I think she’s a lot younger, so she connects with us better. And she’s a lot more open to new ideas and new possibilities. She is really flexible and open-minded, ” Nguyen said.

Mercer said Miller and Nonemaker look at things differently, and she added “I really learned a lot from Don, but I think Gretchen has lots of great ideas, so I am really excited to see those great ideas coming this year.”

This year, CAB planned some new ideas like paintball, putt-putt, zip lining and many other interesting events.

Many students participate in the events that are organized by CAB.

“I went to many trips before,” said Minha Kim, an exchange student from South Korea. She said after she joined the events that were held by CAB, she got into the community very quickly.

Kim said “They gave me opportunity to go outside.” She continued “I learned American culture from the activities, and saw what kind of things people do here. It was awesome to have a chance to really experience American culture. I really like it.”