By Alicia Roache, Staff ReporterALTHOUGH MERRITONE Disco was there to 'juggle' from the early party hours, not many persons turned up for CAST and UTech's anniversary celebrations. Everything was in order for a rocking party, appropriately titled 'Fusion' by the organisers who anticipated a turnout of both past and present CAST/UTech students.
Security was tight (though the 'grip' they placed on the 20 or so patrons at the Students' Activity Centre, UTech, seemed a bit constricting), there was ample parking, in fact as it turned out, the parking was more than adequate. The venue was also spacious, clean and lighted by Electrotech; the bar was stocked and food was prepared and laid out.
THE MISSING ELEMENT
However, the most important element for the party was missing. The people, it seemed had better things to do, or other places to be on Saturday night. And so it was that the only fusion that occurred on Saturday at the university was that of the music from the '70s, '80s, '90s, and the present, ably mixed by the Merritone deejays.
The general air of apathy could be observed from outside the venue. There were no lines, no one scrambling to get in. Even after the understood party hour of midnight, very few persons stood outside the gate, talking or looking around. Others strolled by intermittently from their dormitories, but few stayed to enjoy the music.
Inside, a few young women danced to Wayne Wonder's Searching, Elephant Man's Log On, and Bounty Killer and Barrington Levy's Living Dangerously. Wayne Marshall's call that, "the music pumping and the dance well packed", on Feeling It, was humourous at best under the circumstances.
'HOTTIE' ENJOYS HERSELF
At least one woman, however, felt the urge to enjoy herself to the hilt. A potential 'hottie hottie' dressed in red, sipped her drink and rocked the night away. But when the Bounty Killer/Richie Stephens hit Maniac hit, there was no containing the burst of energy that she demonstrated, gyrating her hips and wining to the ground. As the night wore on, Merritone Disco kept throwing out the vibes with hits such as Wayne Wonder's Keep Them Coming, but there were just not enough persons to catch it.
As it got later, the deejays too seemed to grow disinterested in the party. They mixed songs such as Michael Jackson's You Rock My World, with The Fugees' Fugee la putting a damper on the already, fledging party spirits. This curious music mix was followed by Akon's Locked Up and Fat Joe's Lean Back, then further on by Shinehead's Try My Love and Zhane's Hey Mr. DJ. At almost 2:00 a.m. there were still fewer than 50 persons in the venue. The party had officially died.
