STEPHEN SACCO
Special to The Leader
Last Friday night, Feb. 10, those in Steele Hall ice rink were slipping, sliding and skating. Skaters varied from all levels of experience, but it didn’t matter if you weren’t an olympic skater or the next Wayne Gretzky — everyone came to rock.
This traditional campus fundraising event wouldn’t have been revived if it wasn’t for the current e-board and members of Fredonia Radio Systems.
Noah Maciejewski, the radio’s general manager, is a senior audio/radio and video production major.
“Rock N’ Skate was an event that started 20 years ago, we brought [it] back two years ago,” said Maciejewski. “I came into Fredonia undeclared, I figured out what I wanted to do because I joined the Fredonia Radio Systems.” Maciejewski already has a job at Kiss 98.5, a radio station in Buffalo.
Walking into the rink, the atmosphere was different — it wasn’t your usual brightly lit hockey rink. There were lights, no cameras, but lots of action. Sound services was hired to make sure that the DJ was able to set not only the melodic tone, but the visual atmosphere as well.
Ian Jackson, a senior sound recording technology major who works for Sound Services on campus, helped coordinate the event.
“A club comes to us needing sound and/or lights for an event, we sit down [to] talk about the event specifically and what they want,” said Jackson. “Then we come up with a package which is charged to the club’s budget, then the day of the event we bring the equipment and set up.”
The staff of Sound Services controlled the lights in coordination with the music from the DJ to provide a rockin’ time for our community here at Fredonia.
Fredonia Radio Systems were also selling CDs that record labels had sent over the past years. There was a large turnout; the rink was packed.
“Events like these give us an opportunity to bring the kids to have [fun],” said a resident of Fredonia.
SUNY Fredonia’s Radio Systems will be hosting many more fun events throughout the semester.