With the intention of supporting a good cause and saving a swipe on their meal plans, hundreds of students attended Bobcathon’s record-setting cake walk event Wednesday.
The cake walk, which was held in the Baker Center parking lot, involved participants walking along numbered pieces of paper as a DJ played various hit songs. Whenever the music stopped, so did the participants, and the person standing on the winning number received a free cake.
Although the attendance didn’t reach the 500-person level hoped for by organizers, there were more than 250 participants — enough to establish a new Guinness World Record and cause traffic jams for walkers.
Samaria Gonzalez, an undecided freshman, attended the event with her learning community and enjoyed the widespread campus involvement.
“I feel like (the event) gets everybody together,” she said.
Prior to the walk, a family who stayed at the central Ohio Ronald McDonald House while their child was in critical health spoke to the participants at the event, thanking them for their participation and for helping to fundraise for the organization.
Kennedy Rutt, a sophomore studying exercise physiology pre-med, is a member of
“I’d love to break a world record,” Rutt said. “I like cake, too.”
Kendra Lutes, a senior studying communication studies, serves as the president of
“I think the biggest effect this event in particular had was to just sort of bring the community together to accomplish a goal,” Lutes said. “I think it brought a lot of great awareness to Ronald McDonald House, as well as the Alumni Association, Homecoming Week and
Following the cake walk,
“I think (the cake walk) kind of gives people in the community and OU students a taste of what the Dance Marathon is like, and it’s a cool way to kind of integrate them into the organization,” Lutes said.
