While the Liquid Latex Club's coordinators say their initially cancelled fall dance was rescheduled for the first or second week of November, the Department of Student Activities maintains that it still hasn't approved.Liquid Latex's coordinators Scott Frost '09 and Dianne Ma '09 met Sept. 20 with Director of Student Activities Stephanie Grimes to reschedule the club's "Anything But Clothes" dance, which was cancelled by the administration last month due to concerns over its sexually provocative theme, Ma said. Grimes, however, said that she is still in negotiations with the campus performance arts group over the dance's logistics.

Earlier in September, Grimes had informed Liquid Latex via e-mail that the dance-which was originally scheduled for Sept. 15-wouldn't be allowed because its theme didn't diverge enough from the "Less you Wear, Less you Pay" dance that the club held in previous years. Members of the group were dismayed that the dance was cancelled just eight days before its scheduled date.

"The club was not told in a time-efficient manner what the status of the dance was," Grimes said. "That is a legitimate concern."

After three students at last fall's "Less you wear" dance were transported to the hospital for alcohol intoxication, the administration determined that the annual dance posed safety risks and should be held in a different format.

While students were charged between $1 and $4 to get into the "Less you Wear" dance based on how much clothing they wore, the admission price for the "Anything But Clothes" dance will be based on the creativity of students' attire, also on a scale of $1 to $4.

The revised version of the dance is still in Dean of Student Life Rick Sawyer's "time-out corner," Grimes said. She explained that when she first met with Liquid Latex planners to discuss the event, she felt it still wasn't centered enough on creativity.

"They hadn't really changed the culture of the dance," Grimes said. "There is a difference between freedom of expression and indecent exposure."

Ma said the club's meeting with Grimes addressed student perception of the dance's theme.

"There was a concern that the event was being held too early in the year, especially in regards to the freshman class reaction," Ma said. "We know the way a first-year student would prepare for an event like this is totally different from the way a senior would prepare. By holding the event in November, freshman will have some leeway and time to adjust."

The advertising and promotion of the event has also been revised, Ma said.

"The theme has shifted toward a creative dance, not a naked dance," Ma said. "There will still be a sliding scale of admission prices, but unlike last year's dance, students will pay more or less depending on the creativity of their costume, not the amount of skin showing."

Every spring, the club organizes a show of student performers, clad in little but liquid latex.

"We feel that the message of the dance really syncs up with the Liquid Latex statement of using an alternative way to express yourself through your body," Ma said.

Student Union Advocate Brian Paternostro '07, who sat in on the meeting between Latex's coordinators and Grimes, said he thought the discussion was efficient and was designed for the club to get its event going again.

"I want to compliment [Ma] and [Frost] for the way they handled the fact that their event was put in the 'time-out corner' and for the way they are going to successfully bring it back in a better form," Paternostro said.