For the first time in over a decade, Sacramento State has held a Homecoming campus dance.

On Thursday, Oct. 12, the Redwood Room in the Union was full of music to encourage the Homecoming spirit for the game on Saturday. However, at first it seemed as though there would be no dance.

A week before the dance was scheduled to be held, the initial group that was sponsoring it backed out of their agreement. But ASI?s Jerry Blake wanted to see the dance occur, so he contacted campus radio station, KSSU 1580 AM The Apex, and the Beats, Rhymes & Culture organization to help keep the dance in the schedule of events.

“We got pulled in at the last minute, but didn?t mind helping out the school dance,” Nino Machado, one of the DJs from Beats, Rhymes & Culture said.

With one minor catastrophe out of the way, the dance only had one other problem to keep it from being a hit; the dancers. The dance started at 8 p.m. on Thursday, and continued on while only a few stragglers (mostly from KSSU) came in and entertained themselves. By 10:30 p.m., it looked like all was lost and the dance was not going to be the huge success everyone had hoped for.

“It looked as though there wasn?t going to be more than ten or fifteen people there all night,” David Wilbur, co-director of KSSU said.

All of a sudden, from across campus, nearly 100 people poured into the Redwood Room and shook the dance and DJs up. People from fraternities, business organizations and various students had come into the dance ready to get their groove on.

“It was very beautiful and uplifting,” according to Myesha Kirtman, one of the students who attended the dance.

After all of the problems and stresses, the dance ended at midnight a huge success thanks to all of the people who helped make it possible.