It may have been decades since Union students moved to dance steps with names like the Fox-trot or the Jitterbug.
But they're doing it again, courtesy of the Ballroom Dancing Club.
Dancers had eight lessons during the fall term with four informal Wednesday Relaxers” to practice their steps, according to Heather Reynolds '95, who organized the club with classmates Jennifer Huang and Pam Lin.
The core of the dancers, mostly women, signed up at an activity fair last fall. To remedy the gender imbalance, club members did some recruiting in men's residence halls. Now, the club is evenly split between women and men.
In the winter term, there were two classes – beginners on Mondays, intermediates on Thursdays. The teacher was from the local Arthur Murray Dance Studio.