UAC puts on egg-citing egg hunt for students

Colorful Easter eggs were strewn across the main quad on campus last Thursday for the egg hunt put together by Troy’s University Activities Council (UAC). Inside these eggs sat candy, stickers and the opportunity for students to win prizes. 

After a countdown, students raced to grab as many eggs as they could, hoping for a big prize. The different prizes ranged from water bottles to headphones to a Polaroid camera.

If a student found an egg with a number in it, they could bring it back to the table to redeem a prize. 

The hunt was over within minutes.  

“I haven’t gone Easter egg hunting since I was a kid, and it usually takes kids twenty minutes to find fifty eggs,” said Lesley Jackson, a junior interdisciplinary studies major from Billingsley, Alabama. “It took 50 college students about 50 seconds to find around 100 eggs.  

“It went by really fast, but it was still really fun.” 

The egg hunt was an opportunity for students to meet one another. It brought students together in celebration of the Easter holiday. 

 “Here on Troy’s campus, we really try to cultivate community,” said Marckus Cooper, a junior global business major from Bainbridge, Georgia, who serves as the marketing coordinator for UAC. “It’s really important to continue cultivating that community,

especially with our freshman students, getting them out of their shell, meeting new people they’ll spend four years on Troy’s campus with and ultimately bringing people together from different groups and different organizations.” 

The event was also put together to give students who did not have the opportunity to go home for the holiday a chance to celebrate.  

“We have a lot of students who can’t go home for the holidays,” Cooper said. “We want to perpetuate that idea that Troy is a community, and that we’re almost a home away from home for students.” 

“Troy being one student body together is very important,” said Charles Clark, a sophomore political science major from New Lenox, Illinois. “Having a team that bonds tight together fights hard together.” 

UAC often holds events like the egg hunt throughout the semester, including movie nights, casino nights and silent discos. The events are open to all students.  

To get involved, UAC holds meetings every Monday evening at 5 p.m. in room 119 of the Trojan Center. To learn more about UAC or keep up with events, follow @troyuac on Instagram.