Even well into the night students kept working on the 2025 Winter Carnival Snow statues. Last year’s warm temperatures made it difficult for teams to include as many details as years past. But with much more snow still on the ground this time around, students have much more material to work with.
A lot of the snow last year wasn’t here, but this year we were blessed with so much snow and I think we’re able to take advantage of it. We were a little behind toward the beginning of the night, but I think we pulled out and did a really good job of being able to catch up and put the snow to good use. – Emily Taylor, Fourth year, Alpha Sigma Tau
This year we obviously can put a lot of detail into it, but we kind of focused on being symmetrical this year. So just building it out as symmetrical as we can and then kind of just adding detail from there, that’s kind of the route we took. And then adding the dragon in there just brought it all together and we’re just adding on little details right now as well. – Ethan Smith, Junior, Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity
Fueled by multiple pots of coffee and cases of energy drinks brothers of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity kept working past midnight. Junior year student Ethan Smith says he has plans to sleep today with classes canceled for Thursday and Friday.
We are. We need a few days off after the all-nighter. All of us are pretty much pulling an all-nighter. We’ve only gotten maybe about 40 minutes of sleep. So definitely going to need a few days to recover. But yeah, super excited for a lot of the events to come. We’re going to be participating in all of the special events, like human dog sled, downhill skiing, and all that fun stuff. So really looking forward to it. – Emily Taylor, Fourth year, Alpha Sigma Tau
Oh yeah, I mean it’s a grind. We have too much going on right now during a winter carnival but it’s a blast. These are the memories you’ll remember forever. So yeah, I don’t know. It’s very time-consuming and it’s like lack of sleep and all that sleep deprivation. Like I’m already getting tired right now but it’ll be a lot of fun for the week to come. – Ethan Smith, Junior, Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity
Statue judging started early this morning after students dropped chisels and irons at 9 am. Keweenaw Chamber Manager Katie Schlief says it’s great to see the students enjoying building statues. Especially since last year, students were building with melting snow.
Yeah, now they’re getting pretty cold and they’re getting tired. Some of them you’ll see out here in their lawn chairs that maybe get in some Z’s here and there, but they’re happy. They’re excited about their projects and they’re excited to celebrate the winter carnival. – Katie Schlief, Chamber Manager, Keweenaw Chamber of Commerce
Tonight campus will meet inside the Rozsa Center for stage revue, the annual comedy sketch night. Blue Key President Skyler Spitzley says groups tend to throw in references to the local area, another university about 100 miles away, winter weather, and the university. All in good fun.
And then they put in different like little like side digs and things like that. So I think it allows the campus to get together because a lot of the digs are like things that we all relate to. So like I think last year was a lot of northern digs, a lot of transportation remarks, like there’s just different things that as students I think it all shows that we all suffer in this and we can all laugh about it and come together and support each other. – Skyler Spitzley, President, Blue Key Honor Society
Tomorrow some students will enjoy sled dog rides or a trip around campus in a horse-drawn wagon. Others might stop by Mount Ripley to go skiing or snowboarding during the day. At night the university welcomes Bemidji State University to the John Macinnes Ice Arena. On Saturday students can mingle with alumni at the alumni social before watching the Milwaukee Waterstreet Dancers perform in the Rozsa Center. Those interested in learning more about Winter Carnival events and activities this weekend can find more details here.
Month Long Snow Statues:
Men’s Division:
Phi Kappa Tau – 1st
Tau Kappa Epsilon – 2nd
Delta Sigma Phi – 3rd
Lambda Chi Alpha – 4th
Women’s division:
Alpha Sigma Tau – 1st
Co-ed Division:
Sigma Tau Gamma & Alpha Gamma Delta – 1st
Delta Phi Epsilon & Beta Sigma Theta – 2nd
Delta Zeta & Sigma Phi Epsilon – 3rd
Sigma Pi & Theta Chi – 4th
Triangle Fraternity & Phi Delta Chi – 5th
Guardians of the North & Arctic Warriors – 6th
Four Wheelers – 7th
All Nighter Snow Statues:
Men’s Division:
Baseball Club – 1st
The Greater Hank Hill Fan Club – 2nd
Incognito – 3rd
The Bastille – 4tf
Sigma Rho – 5th
Valhalla Foam Fighting Club – 6th
Excello and Tombstone – 7th
4d Wadsworth Hall – 8th
Women’s division:
Society of Women Engineers – 1st
Women’s Golf Club – 2nd
Women’s Rugby Club – 3rd
Co-ed Division: There are 50 all nighter co-ed division statues. Find the full list here.
Catholic Campus Ministries at St. Albert the Great – 1st
Cru – 2nd
The Navigators – 3rd
Milk Enthusiasts – 4th
Lutheran Campus Ministries – 5th
SAF Forestry Club – 6th
Douglass Houghton Hall Council – 7th
His House Christian Fellowship – 8th
Students for Sustainability – 9th
Peace Campus Ministry – 10th
Sleepy Hollow – East Wadsworth – 11th
Outdoor Venture Crew -12th
Sailing Club at Michigan 13th
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship 14th
Mushing Club at Michigan Tech -15th
MTU Rowing Club -16th
Citadel Hall – 17th
Gamers Anonymous -18th
Husky Swim Club – 19th
Robotic Systems Enterprise – 20th
Film Board – 21st
American Society of Mechanical Engineers -22nd
Keweenaw Pride – 23rd
Aquarium Society of Michigan Tech – 24th
Society of Physics Students – 25th
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