Paul Takahashi/The Daily NorthwesternParamedics and police came to Norris University Center early Sunday morning because two girls had collapsed. One was transported to the hospital.
One left in a stretcher and the other walked out of Club DM, the tent on the Norris lawn currently holding all 750 dancers.
At about 12:15 a.m., the music and lights stopped and the crowd was asked to step aside.
The dancers formed a large circle to give the two space. Some dancers left DM Club to go to the lounge inside Norris.
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Center for Student Involvement Director Helen Wood asked the members of the DM food committee to bring water, and shortly after cases of Fiji water were brought into the room to be distributed to all the dancers. Bottles water were also brought up from the rear of the room. The dancers made way for stretchers to get by.
"It's shocking" Music freshman Loren Brindze said while leaving the venue. "You kind of expect it given the extremity of the circumstances – the physical condition everyone's undergoing, but at the same time to see it manifest like that – it's shocking."
All media personnel and visitors were asked to leave DM Club when the marathon, with music and lights, resumed at 12:40 a.m.
Brindze said the committee executives tried to make the environment upbeat when the music turned back on.
"The event was very positive," he said. "We picked up where we left off."
Both the University Police Department and the Evanston Police Department said they were unavailable for comment until Monday morning.
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