Student Union Board begins planning for fall events

Dominic Spizzirri

The Student Union Board looks forward to another year of hard work and promises great events for students in the fall.

George Micalone, assistant director of the board, describes SUB as being for the students by the students with the way the organization is run.

“[The goal] is to have quality entertainment for the students beyond what is already on campus, cultural and social,” Micalone said.

SUB finds its events by keeping track of artists that come in and by considering markets that would please students and do well on campus through its different committees: Multi Cultural Awareness, Special Events, Comedian, Maintenance Shop, Performing Arts, Cyclone Cinema and Variety.

“Their goal is … to find events that have a general interest to students or a target audience,” Micalone said.

The events chosen though still rely on time, money and scheduling for when the performer can make it to campus.

“A lot of it is scheduling,” said Mackenzie Downs, president of the board.

Every event takes time for students to put together, and every student working for SUB gets his or her own personal experience out of it.

“There’s a certain flow that happens with each event,” Downs said. “Being around people with common interest … being in the middle of all the events all the time … it’s really fun and hectic but really enjoyable.”

The board promises an exciting line up for Fall 2014 and would like to highlight the Twenty One Pilots performance Oct. 5 in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.

For more information on events related to the board, visit www.sub.iastate.edu. Schedules for Maintenance Shop and Cyclone Cinema will be released in early August.