For those who have avoided DM during their time at NU, it’s important to understand the tradition used to introduce every new block of the leg-destroying event. Once a block is finished, dancers scurry off to the side rooms/hallways of Norris to get a little bit of rest before they have to move again. Meanwhile, DM officials clean up the dance floor and LRP members set up the decorations for the next three-hour boogie. Soon, the 10-minute break ends, and members of various committees bang quickly on the door of Louis Room, creating a horrible swarm-of-hornet-like noise that alerts dancers it’s time to get back on the dance floor. The committee members line up near the back doors of Louis and, as the dancers charge back into the room, they offer support and high-fives to the grooving participants. The next block is underway, and dancers are only a scant three hours away from the process repeating itself.