University Programs and the Restaurant, Hotel and Meeting Management Deparment hosted Beat Auburn Beat Bingo (BABB) Wednesday night in Lloyd 131. 

BABB supported Beat Auburn Beat Hunger (BABH), an annual competition between the two schools to see who can collect more canned goods to support their regional food bank.

About 25 students attended BABB, receiving one bingo card for each canned good they brought. The event collected over 50 cans of food for the West Alabama Food Bank. Sydney Cochran, a senior in the Restaurant, Hotel and Meetings Management (RHM) Department, helped run the event and felt there was a good turnout.

Andrea Rock, Campus Liaison for Beat Auburn Beat Hunger, started off the event by explaining the importance of the “Beat Hunger” aspect of Beat Auburn Beat Hunger. One statistic that she shared was that there are enough hungry kids in Alabama to fill Bryant-Denny Stadium and Jordan-Hare stadium twice.

During BABB students played eight rounds of bingo, socializing and munching on Chick-fil-A in between rounds, and receiving a range of UA merchandise if they won. Freshman Sarah Tucker went to BABB because she saw it as an easy way to give back to the community and was pleasantly surprised when she won a UA t-shirt.

Junior Ari Gibson, winner of a UA water bottle, thought the event was interesting.

“[Bingo] was different because usually you think of it being for old people,” Gibson said. “It was fun.”

“I think the event went really well,” said Meghan Wright, University Programs event programmer. “Everyone was laughing, having a good time.” 

Project Health did not speak about the effects of alcohol at the event, as was originally expected.