After two weeks of heavy promotion, daily announcements at both campuses and an eventual move indoors due to inclement weather, Spring Fling took place inside of SC Gyms one and two on April 30.

The dance, which was designated as a casual affair_, ended up bringing in $2,000 in ticket sales. One-hundred and eighty-seven students showed up, but the attendance was heavily dominated by underclassmen, Transition Perks students and Student Council members and officers.

Ultimately, Student Activities Director and Student Council advisor Peter Geddeis did not regret the decision to keep the event despite initial cries to cancel the dance.

“I had a conversation with the officers and eventually proposed a question to them,” Geddeis said. “What’s going to be more damaging—putting on another event and having what we presume are going to be low turnout numbers or cancelling another event?”

Additionally the dance was a low-risk to keep on financially through the assistance of John and Randy Flaws of Windy City Music who offered their services at no cost to LT.

Unfortunately, however, there seems to be a divide between the student body and Student Council.

“I feel like there is a disconnect between what the student body is telling [Student Council] and what they actually want,” Pilar Valdez ‘19 said.

While many students polled by Student Council indicated that they were not interested in another “formal dance,” Student Council’s alternative, LionFest, ended up being cancelled this past February.

Following the cancellation of LionFest, Spring Fling seemed to be an opportunity for Student Council to rebound in terms of putting on school-wide events, yet the dance also came up short.

However, future president Haley Gorman ‘17 has a new vision for Student Council’s role in LT moving forward.

“I see Student Council as being a student government association more worried about the concerns of students [instead] of throwing these events,” Gorman said. “I think there is a lack of a student body that really takes time to address student grievances.”

According to Gorman, Student Council’s reputation in putting on failed events this year offers the club the chance to expand upon a new, if not temporary, path to act as a body that reaches out to students who feel disenfranchised by LT.

“We have a great community, but I don’t think it reaches every student,” Gorman said. “I don’t think it reaches every student at the lowest income level or that it necessarily reaches all the minority students at LT. Our clubs and our classes are very white and middle-upper class and I think we can do a lot better than that.”