DJ 3Lau concluded Dooley’s Week in front of a packed McDonough Field Saturday night at Dooley’s Ball.
Justin Blau – the 22-year-old DJ whose stage name is 3Lau, pronounced “Blau” – entertained the crowd with his progressive house music and visual on-stage displays.
When he wasn’t behind a large LCD screen that was visually synced with the music he performed, 3Lau ran to the front of the stage and sprayed fans with a fire extinguisher.
At one point in the night, 3Lau crowd-surfed, yelling, “Are you pumped Emory?”
“I thought it was a great performance,” College freshman Madhav Valla said. “I thought he was a very good showman. He did a lot of cool s–t. I appreciated the crowd surfing and the smoke blasters.”
College freshman Stephen Fowler agreed, stating that the light show “added an extra layer of awesome.”
SPC members expressed similar sentiments about the concert.
“I thought he had an awesome set, and it was a good mix of [electronic dance music (EDM)] and mash-up music as well as the more popular EDM songs, and his most popular mixes,” Chris Akavi, College senior and SPC Spring Band Party co-chair, wrote in an email to the Wheel. “I loved how engaged he was with the crowd, even stage-diving at one point, and I thought he was a true performer.”
The Student Programming Council (SPC), which sponsored the event, invited students to attend the concert in togas, keeping with the theme of “Doolius Caesar Presents: When in Rome, Dooley as the Romans Do.”
SPC attempted to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest toga party, which was set at 3,700 attendants a few years ago in Australia.
“We figured that since we were having a massive toga party, that it would be something special to really get students involved,” Akavi wrote. “We thought that it would be a cool new tradition to try and break some sort of record every Dooley’s Week, and it could be something that brings the Emory community closer together.”
Despite the plastic white sheets available to those without costumes, SPC and students were unable to break the record.
Akavi cited regulations set by the Guinness Book of World Records as one of the hindrances to SPC’s ability to break the toga record.
The record also required the togas to be white.
“We put a lot of time and effort trying to put ourselves in a good position to break the record,” Akavi wrote, also noting that SPC cut up sheets of plastic to make togas for all attendees.
He added that more marketing would have been helpful.
Fowler agreed with Akavi that the idea to break the record was not publicized well among students attending the concert.
Akavi added that the highlight of his night was when 3Lau played the “Harlem Shake.”
“I always love to see the crowds go crazy for that song, and Emory students didn’t disappoint,” he said.
– By Dustin Slade
Photo by David Feldman
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