UPC held their first War Damn Coffee Jam which featured free coffee, donuts and live music for students and the Auburn community.
The event was helf on Tuesday, Nov. 3 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Samford Lawn.
The coffee was supplied by Toomer’s Coffee and the donuts were from University Donut Company.
The Timid Sons, a rock band from Birmingham, AL, and the Jack Lennox Band, an alternative rock band from Auburn, performed live music at the event.
UPC member Evyn Brown, junior in political science, said the Jack Lennox Band was chosen from another University Program Council event, Open Mic Night where they performed.
Brown said the Coffee Jam was thought up this past spring with the selection of the new director and assistant directors of Special Projects.
UPC is hoping to make it an annual event, and to get more people from campus and the community to come out and enjoy time with the Auburn Family, Brown said.
“We had wonderful attendance from both Auburn Students and the Auburn community, the bands were amazing, and the vision that we had for the event really came through,” Brown said. “I think that this event has been one of my favorite so far this year.”
The planning for the event began last May at the end of the school year, according to UPC member Hannah Bush, sophomore in pre-nursing.
“We wanted to come up with an event that would take the place of Battle of the Bands and focus on bringing together both the Auburn Students and faculty as well as the surrounding Auburn community,” Bush said.
Bush said he enjoyed seeing the event come together after months of planning.
“It was amazing seeing all of our ideas and months worth of work come together to create something that was able to bring joy and facilitate community among so many people,” Bush said. “We were also pleasantly surprised by the participation by the Auburn community.”
People throughout the Auburn community showed up to the event, Bush said.
“We had a great deal of alumni and families from the community attend which brought the concept of ‘The Auburn Family’ that we try to uphold full circle,” Bush said.
UPC member Emma Decarlo, freshman in pre-business, worked the coffee station at the event and said she was able to participate in the preparation before the event even though she was not an Auburn student when planning began.
“Some of the event had already been organized in the spring semester before I was a student, but I got to help with planning where to set things up and the decor of the event,” Decarlo said.
Decarlo said she chose to join UPC because she liked the idea of giving back to Auburn and being able to bring the student body together.
Decarlo said her favorite part of the event were the bands, the Timid Sons and the Jack Lennox band.
“They were so good and I loved the covers they played,” Decarlo said. “I think this could become an annual event because many people attended and really enjoyed it.”
Caitlyn Martin, freshman in pre-graphic design, said she invited two of her friends from her hometown that aren’t Auburn students to the coffee jam.
“I was surprised because they had the choice of hot or iced coffee so I got iced coffee,” Martin said. “Not only did they have donuts, but they also had cookies and brownies too.”
Martin said she would go again next year if the event were to become annual, and she’d invite more of her friends.
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