The Fordham University Campus Activities Board (CAB) hosted numerous on-campus events and raffles to celebrate Valentine’s Day. The CAB general board hosted a tabling event on Feb. 13, fit with making stuffed animals, friendship bracelets and valentines.
“I saw the CAB Instagram post advertising the [tabling] event and it looked so fun and cute!” said Sofia Tierney, FCRH ’27. “The plushies were definitely my favorite part. The CAB events are always a nice break from classes and studying.”
The CAB general board, which consists of around 40 students across different schools and grades, worked to brainstorm ideas for the Valentine’s event, gather a supply list to order, advertise the event and run the event day-of.
“CAB always does themed Valentine’s events during the week, and we really like to include everyone on Valentine’s Day,” said Jade Petalcorin, GSB ’25 and CAB general board chair. “CAB always wants to make sure people feel included and that they have stuff to do every weekend through CAB’s Weekend Activities Committee.” The committee is planning a bingo night for Valentine’s Day on Sunday, Feb. 25, at 8 p.m.
Another sub-group of CAB, known as Cinevents, hosts movie nights for students. Cinevents hosted a movie night on Feb. 18 for students in Keating First, showing the hit Valentine’s Day movie “The Proposal,” fit with free candy and pizza.
CAB’s Weekend Activities Committee also took students to Pugsley’s Pizza on Feb. 9 to make heart-shaped pizza pies. Students got behind the counter and shaped dough into hearts complete with sauce and toppings to their heart’s content. CAB also raffled off concert tickets for the holiday week.
“Valentine’s [events] have been a long standing tradition,” said Petalcorin. “We have done events that turned out well in the past, like love pies at Pugsley’s, rom-com movies with Cinevents and open mic at [Rodrigue’s Coffee House]. Normally we plan from the beginning of the semester and we take feedback and SWOTs [Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat] from prior years and build according to that.”
Petalcorin encourages students to get excited for one of CAB’s biggest events of the year, Spring Weekend. She ensures that the board has some exciting plans in the work for students to enjoy the weekend. Past Spring Weekend events included concerts from artists like COIN and Cochise, a carnival, block party and bingo night.
