This year’s Ram Roast had a wide array of activities for student’s to enjoy, including many new events to accompany the free food and giveaways.”We’ve tried to add a whole lot more events so that it’s nonstop until midnight, especially to the pep rally with the dance team coming out for us,” senior class president Adam Compton said.The musical group Grains of Time kicked off the all-night event and was later followed by the N.C. State band and cheerleading squads.”I really liked the singing groups and the band,” Tyler Bennett, a junior in extension education, said. “The band has a good sound and I just like music after playing [in the band] in high school.”Bennett won a party plate set during one of the event’s many raffle drawings.”I reckon I’m going to eat in it and watch the game this weekend,” Bennett said.Bennett decided to come out to the Ram Roast for a couple of hours after hearing about the event’s success during the last two years.He noticed that the event started off fairly slowly.”We kind of started a little late, but it was expected,” Compton said. “We wanted to make sure we waited for a lot of students to arrive.”Bennett said that this lack of excitement disappeared when the pep rally reached its climax.”After the football coach started talking, everyone really got pumped up,” he said.Other students in the crowd decided to come out to the event after hearing that the players and coach would be making an appearance.”It was good to hear from the players and to see everyone there,” Nick Zinser, a junior in engineering, said. “It’s always nice to hear Tom O’Brien talk.”Zinser felt inspired from both the pep rally and the words of reassurance issued by O’Brien and the players.”It was nice to see him in person, and he was pretty funny,” Zinser said of O’Brien.Compton believes that it’s important for students to feel pumped up after the event and ready to support the football team when they take the field against UNC.”We’re going to see [UNC] on the field Saturday and show them who really is the champion,” Compton said.