In which Bwog daily editor Alexandra Muhler examines whether enormous infusions of the administration's money can make a Thursday night on campus enjoyable.

The crowds were thick at Lerner tonight for an event excessively fond of wink-wink references to wink-wink cultural icons (event t-shirts had "Glass House Rocks" on the front and "Best Thursday Ever" on the back). Stepping into the packed building, I fretted over whether the awkwardness of running into half the people I know would be worth campus clubs' booths, snacks, and performances.

A number of the club-dedicated tables and rooms were terrific. Alongside inappropriately sober community service clubs playing videos of starving children in Third World nations were spicier groups like Conversio Virium, which distributed a connect-the-dots worksheet inappropriate for publication on a family-oriented blog. Also notable was the Chinese Student Club's tea-pong room, and the noticeably diminished skill of all its abstemious (2 IDs to drink) players.

116th and Amsterdam may never have seen this many farm animals since, well, there were farms here. Throw in picnic food, facepainting, raffles, toy and clothes sales, and one giant inflatable firetruck, and you might just forget about that 20-page paper due on Monday.

Sorry for reminding you. More photos after the jump.