Some ASSU campaign promises, such as reviving the Halloween Mausoleum Party, seem to never come to fruition. But outgoing ASSU Executives Melanie Kannokada and Aneto Okonkwo, both seniors, are making good on their promise to throw a Row block party, an ASSU-sponsored event to take place Sunday night.

Plans for an all-day block party were scuttled, however, as administration concerns limited organizers to only an evening on The Row, said Executive Cabinet Member Shirin Sharif, a senior and a writer for The Daily who has been in charge of the block party planning for the better part of this school year.

“Our ideal plan was to have a daytime portion of the party from 12 to 3 p.m. and then a nighttime portion from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.,” Sharif said. “Absolute Fun was going to sponsor the daytime party, we submitted a whole proposal to the Committee on Public Events (COPE) and the administration rejected the daytime part of the event.”

“We were approached by members of the ASSU with this idea of putting on a spring block party,” said Ralph Castro, the Stanford party-planning educator. “It morphed into the party it is now during discussions over the past few months. Right now the Office of Student Activities has approved the [nighttime] party and is working with organizers to develop a security and crowd management plan to ensure that it is a safe and successful event. With regards to [the daytime party’s cancellation], I’m not really sure what happened with that.”

According to Sharif, the afternoon party was not approved by the administration due to traffic, noise and crowd control concerns. Administrators recommended that the event be moved to Roble Field or Frost Amphitheater. Event organizers, who insisted on maintaining the event’s block-party atmosphere, rejected both alternative locations.

“The location was going to be the coolest part about it,” Sharif said.

The daytime block party was to extend over the entire lower row residential area. Organizers were planning on booking a $25,000 band — Ben Kweller was discussed as an option — and providing free food to thousands of anticipated participants.

Sharif told The Daily that prior to cancellation of the daytime portion, Stanford Dining had signed on to provide free food; Yahoo Music had pledged to provide money for music and the entire lower row community was committed to contributing funds and manpower.

“[The Executive Cabinet] was really disappointed in the way the administration handled the daytime portion,” he said. “Ken Bates, the Police Department special events deputy, signed off on the daytime event and the administration just sort of backed out of it.”

Nanci Howe, director of Student Affairs, and Morris Graves, the Student Services manager — two individuals named by party organizers as primary proponents of the daytime cancellation — did not return multiple calls and emails requesting comment.

The nighttime party, however, was approved by the administration and will span three Row houses — Columbae, Mars and Sigma Nu. According to Castro, the organizers are expecting a total attendance of 500 students at any one time between the three houses.

But with a higher number of attendees comes increased security concerns, Bates said.

“There have been a number of incidents that have happened throughout the entire campus which makes [the police department] want to increase our presence on campus to help people think twice before they do something that is illegal,” he said.

Bates also told The Daily that security at the block party would not be increased in light of the recent crimes on campus.

“It’s going to be like the Big Game block party,” Sharif added. “There will be a central place giving out wristbands for alcohol and checking SUIDs.”

Each house will feature a different flavor of music. Mars and Sigma Nu will play house and pop music and hip-hop respectively, while Columbae will feature The Bee’s Knees, a live band. The block party is intended to be Stanford’s last big hurrah before dead week and finals.

“We sort of have a monopoly on parties that night,” Sharif said. “The parties are at three row houses right next to each other in the center of campus and people are done with midterms and everything until finals. We don’t hope that getting people there will be a problem.”