Lawson Hall won the Evolution of ROCFest guitar, toppling Weller Hall’s four-year winning streak during the Residence Hall Association meeting on Thursday.

The ROCFest guitar is given as an award to the hall that wins the week of ROCFest, which is a weeklong series of competitions between the residence halls as well as Greek Court.

Vice President Patrick Morrow, a senior family and consumer sciences major, said RHA advisers decided the winner of ROCFest based on points that were added up throughout the week.

Residence halls would receive points for participation from their hall as well as placing in one of the competitions.

Laura Imbirowicz, the resident director of Lawson, said it was a really close race between the residence halls.

This will be Lawson’s second win for ROCFest, previously winning in 2007.

Weller Vice President Michael Neal, a sophomore political science major, said he would have liked to see more students from Weller participate.

“We got swamped by everybody with their attendance,” Neal said. “It was pretty much the same few people doing the event.”

Neal said he was happy with those who participated though.

“The same few people that we had did an awesome job with the things that they did,” Neal said.

Lawson President Meghan Garby, a senior special education major, said they had numerous students from Lawson attend the competitions.

“We put up publicity and just kind of advertised it on our Facebook,” Garby said.

Every hall that wins has their name placed upon the frets of the small wooden guitar.

Garby said the guitar will probably be placed on the wall behind the front desk.

“We’ll make sure it’s somewhere everyone can see it,” Garby said.

Other awards were also given out to students who won certain competitions throughout the week.

While the executive board did not have the awards ready during the announcement, the winners will be receiving paddles.

Andrews Hall won the window-painting contest with their “Rock the Beat” theme.

They incorporated the breast cancer awareness ribbons throughout their silhouetted paintings of artists such as Elvis Presley.

While Weller won the cardboard boat race and the “Panther Babies” search, Lawson still won because of their participation in each competition and activity as well as their win for the scavenger hunt.

Certificates will also be given out for the Mr. and Mrs. ROCFest to Nate Lemenager, a sophomore business major, and Kadie Peterson, a junior family and consumer sciences major.

A certificate for participation was awarded to Weller.

Stevenson Hall was awarded for the amount of Breast Cancer Awareness T-shirts bought by Stevenson residents.

Garby said she was ecstatic after hearing that they had won.

Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812 or jsjarmon@eiu.edu.