Never mind love, this Friday night the Booty Party is coming to town. A chance to get with all those secret obsessions that you’ve been lusting after. If you don’t have the courage to approach them, you can let a computer mediate your passion. If the object of your affection has the same idea in mind, you’ll get a match, and be able to awkwardly deal with it from there.

One student claims that "every night is booty night," but on this lonely Pomona campus, such dreams are not often a reality. The point of the Booty Party is to get as many horny kids into a room as possible, give them a list of all the people who have crushes on them, and see what happens.

Last year, John Vanasco ’00 and Michael Lieberman ’01 set up the web site for the Booty Party, where you enter all your crushes and hope they pick you. When you get to the party you get a list. All your matched crushes give the name of the person who put you down. If you didn’t pick them, you don’t get a name, but you have the rest of the night to find out who it was.

CCLA is sponsoring the party, and contracting out the web site. They are providing kegs of beer and the atmosphere for getting it on. DJ Dan Cole will be spinning the groovy booty tunes. The party starts at 9:30 pm and ends at 1:00 am; the after hours is up to you.

But such an event is not to be looked upon as a free for all of affection. "It requires a lot of skill," one student said. "People build up expectations, but the secret is to not expect anything."

"The good thing is that people who just recently broke up or were dating last year during the Booty Party are excited about it," said another student. While they’re probably a small minority, the party does seem to excite most students on some level.

"I’m going ’cause there’ll be a lot of horny people there," one student said.

Another student is going to explore the booty potential even though she has a pseudo-boyfriend that she recently met. The party doesn’t have to be totally booty-based, but it definitely does charge the evening.

One student remarked, however, that people get excited about the matches but won’t do anything about a matched crush. It could even make it more awkward between them.

One question is how to list a crush if you don’t know his or her name. You can’t just list "the girl who sits behind me in psych class" or, more affectionately, "sex god(dess)." The party is made for people with serious crushes and a plan to go about it.

There is cause for pessimism about the party’s booty factor, as one student commented, "I think people who would’ve scored anyway will score again." The rest of us lonely losers will be sleeping with our stuffed animals.

For all the hype about booty, ass, scoring, and getting it on, the Booty Party is a fun night, but doesn’t seem to completely fulfill its goal. One student said that this is a sexually repressed campus, and while students get excited about the idea of a Booty Party, it turns out to be a regular party. The fun twist is listing your crushes and hoping they’ll list you. Many students, however, thought the Booty Party was one of the best parties on campus last year.