Social club formals are approaching, and some social clubs have decided to submit dancing requests to Student Life.

The long-standing dance policy was recently revised, allowing campus organizations to submit requests for dancing at an event to Student Life for approval. Once approved, there are several criteria that must be met.

Students are required to have a Student Life rep present at the event. Secondly, the organization will be expected to pay the Student Life representative’s way to the event. Also, music to be played at the dance must be turned in to Student Life for approval.

Hollie Derrick, sophomore Ad/PR major from Monahans, is Alpha Kai Omega’s social director, making her responsible for planning the social club’s formal. AKO is planning to have dancing at their formal April 27.

“We’ve been talking about it since we learned about the new rule,” Derrick said. “We decided to just go with it and see what happens.”

Derrick said a lot of Kaios have had a positive reaction to the idea.

“Usually at girls’ formals they eat, watch a video and play a game,” Derrick said. “Maybe they’ll have a little more fun now.”

Dakota Cooper, senior information systems major from Fayetteville, Ark. and vice president of Galaxy, says they will not be having a dance at their formal on March 31.

“The ruling came out after I had already gotten everything planned,” Cooper said. “Even if we’d wanted to have a dance, we didn’t have the money to put one on.”

Cooper said there were a only a few members interested in having a dance after the policy revision was announced.

“Anytime something changes, people get all excited about it,” Cooper said. “All in all, no one really cared that we were not going to have a dance.”