Oklahoma Summer 2012: OU Crawfish Boil

The crawfish boil at the University of Oklahoma brought in twice the number of people than expected.

The crawfish boil on Tuesday, June 19, gave students at the University of Oklahoma the chance to relax and enjoy free food in the Oklahoma Memorial Union courtyard.

The OU summer session organizes activities ranging from free snow cones, movies, a comedy performance by TJ Miller, a musical performance by Stoney LaRue, a pool party, and more.

“The main goal of summer programs is to give students who are taking summer classes something to do while they are taking classes, so that they’re not just at home and bored with nothing to do,” Steven Lee, director of summer programs, said.

The crawfish boil had the biggest turn out than any of the previous events this summer.

“I think this is triple the amount of people that we’ve had all summer for anything,” Matthew Farley, graduate assistant for the union programming board, said.

So many people showed up to the crawfish boil that there was not enough catfish or soda for everyone.

“We expected about 250 and I think we’ve hit about 500, so we’ve doubled what we expected. It’s been great,” Lee said.

University catering just happened to have ordered twice the amount of crawfish that they were supposed to. Lee describes it as a “miracle”.

Miguel Gonzalez, a graduate student, took a break from his research to come to the crawfish boil.

“I think it is pretty cool that they have these events in the summer because usually in the summer it’s kind of lonely and there is not much to do. So I think it is good they think of the people who are still here during the summer,” Gonzalez said.

Whitney Felton, senior, is looking taking classes this summer and looks forward to the events planned this summer.

“The pool party sounds like it’s going to be really fun. And snow cones because everybody likes snow cones.”

Felton sums up the summer session events as “good weather, good food, good people.”