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STUDENT LIFE
'I think I want to marry you'
Finance senior Steoen Chambers proposed to his girlfriend
of five years, Aranza Frias, with the help of Bruno Mars’
“Marry You,”friends and some Salsa Fusion dancers. The
YouTube video of the flash mob proposal got more than
10,000 hits in one day and now has 40,000-plus views.
Life & Arts writer Olivia Knight sat down with the couple
to ask them about the event.
THE BATTALION: How did you meet?
FRIAS: We went to high school together. We've had
classes together since freshman year of high school,
but we didn't really start hanging out until junior or
senior year. Because of him, we had assigned seats in
high school. And then we mostly had the same teach
ers during senior year, and so we had a project for
English, we had our senior project, which was basi
cally 'putting your life together' like little moments and
scrapbooks and stuff, so we started working on that
when we really didn't have to.
CHAMBERS: She was always the real quiet one, I was
the talkative one. We were like opposites. It's funny
because at our engagement party, our good friends
growing up were like, 'It's crazy, you guys were so
opposite growing up, and now y'all are together.' We
started dating a month before senior prom. She was
going out with somebody else to senior prom and I
asked her out.
THE BATTALION: What inspired the flash mob pro
posal?
CHAMBERS: When we were dating, we would al
ways watch videos of flash mobs on YouTube, and
they would really inspire us, and it would bring tears
to our eyes because we thought the guy always put
so much work into it, and the girl was always so sur
prised, so I thought that was the best thing to do for
us because, the way I saw it, I wanted her to feel
like a princess, with all the attention on her and what
better way? At first it was just a thought, because I
don't know dancers, I don't know how to do this, but
it wasn't until I mentioned it to my friends at Fuzzy's
Tacos, and my friend Sam was like, 'No, yeah, we can
do this for sure.' So he kind of sparked it and it went
from there. If it weren't for his enthusiasm, I probably
would have done a regular old [proposal], which is fine,
but I've always wanted to do a flash mob.
FRIAS: He would mention it at times, like, 'If I pro
posed, it would be a flash mob.'
THE BATTALION: What was that day supposed to
be like? What was going on right before the flash
mob?
FRIAS: The night before, one of our really good friends
sent a group message, we were supposed to go see
Interstellar the next day, they were like, 'Who's down
to see Interstellar?' And I was like, 'I've been wanting
to watch that movie.' So I got off work at three that
day, and then they texted me at work and said, 'Let's
go to Sbisa to get some food, and after that we'll go
to the movie.' He has a parking pass, I don't, so I was
like, 'Where am I supposed to park?' And he goes,
'Don't worry, Jeff will pick you up.' So we were walk
ing and talking, but they weren't listening to me at all
the entire time because they were so concentrated on
Sarah Lane — THE BATTALION
Steven Chambers proposed to Aranza Frias, his
girlfriend of five years, with a flash mob on Dec. 17.
what was about to happen, and then after that I was
so surprised.
CHAMBERS: If you watch the video, she's on her
phone the first minute of it. She didn't know it was for
her until her friends ran out.
THE BATTALION: How did Salsa Fusion dancers
come to participate in the proposal?
CHAMBERS: We go salsa dancing on Saturday nights
at the Village, and the guy who runs it, his name is
Chris, and I knew he also works for Maroon Weekly,
but I know the owner of Maroon Weekly— his name
is also Chris — and I go, 'Hey Chris! Who's the Salsa
Guy?' So I got his contact info, and I originally asked
him to be a part of it, but he got real sick. So he told me
about Salsa Fusion, told me he'd talk to them for me,
he was like, 'I'm sure they'll say yes.' But it'd been a
week before, and there were no salsa dancers, and so
I was really getting nervous, but one of the salsa danc
ers finally hits me up and says, 'Hey, we're interested,
where do we meet?' And they were perfect. A big
shoutout and 'thank you' to Salsa Fusion.
THE BATTALION: Are any dates set in stone yet?
FRIAS: It looks like it'll be March 11, 2016. I'm going
to a bridal expo to look at ideas and looking at wedding
dresses and stuff. Planning a wedding is a lot more
than we thought.
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all the way back when I was an assistant
at Louisiana Tech and he had real black
hair back then. The preparation for
him is you’ve just got to play hard. He’s
going to coach hard. I mean, I don’t
know if there is anybody that coaches
as hard as he does, up and down the
sidelines, he rarely sits down, he’s jaw
ing at the officials, his team, he’s mo
tivating, and he’s just one of the pio
neers, one of the hall of famers that are
in our game.”
Landers’ Bulldogs (16-3, 4-2) also
opened their 2014-15 campaign on a
long winning streak, knocking off their
first 12 opponents. They boast the na
tion’s fourth-best scoring defense,
which only surrenders an average of
50.7 points per game. However, they
have lost three of their last seven, in
cluding a 55-52 defeat to University of
Mississippi, a team the Aggies beat 58-
49 this past Sunday.
However, Blair refuses to overlook
this SEC foe.
“We cannot even look past Geor
gia,” Blair said. “You can tell by how
we’ve played, home and away, in con
ference. Every game is going to be a
nail biter. And so what we’ve got to
do is just throw the whole kitchen sink
at Georgia and go out and buy a new
kitchen sink before we go to the next
one.”
The Aggies will lean on their lead
ing scorers, juniors Courtney Walker
and Courtney Williams, who average
14.7 and 14.3 points per game, re
spectively, as they look to exploit the
Bulldogs suffocating defense. Williams
also contributes six rebounds per game,
which ranks second on the team. Se
nior Achiri Ade leads the Aggies with
8.6 boards per game.
Blair likes where his teams stands,
but said he knows that ulthnately it is
not the start that, counts, but the finish.
“Our first goal is to win the SEC,
the next goal is to win the SEC tour
nament, the next goal is to go as deep
as we can in the playoffs,” Blair said.
“But to do that, like I got a text from a
couple of coaches today, ‘Hey, you’re
peaking at the right time, just like you
always do.’ Certain teams start having
problems and start losing either due to
injuries or poor play or an easy sched
ule and now they run into the wall. I
think my teams, over the years, have al
ways played well once Febmary starts,
and what we want to do is make sure it
starts in January.”
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