Organizations
recruit, welcome new members
By Kari Schneider
On-line Forty-Niner
The
Week of Welcome is a time for organizations
and clubs to recruit new members and share
what they are about to the campus population.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. from Tuesday to today,
the Friendship Walk outside the University
Bookstore was crowded with students looking
for the club or organization that is just
right for them.
From
the Greek organizations looking to promote
their brotherhood and sisterhood to the
Yoga Meditation Club promoting alternative
ways to deal with stress, students had several
choices on how to get involved.
“The whole point of Week of Welcome is to
get students involved. Statistics show that
students who join clubs and organizations
have a higher success rate in college,”
said Gina Garcia, Associated Students Inc.
administrator.
Week of Welcome has become so popular that
A.S.I. has had to move the location from
the Southwest Terrace to Friendship Walk.
“Students want to promote their organizations.
With the abundance of signs, letters and
flyers, Week of Welcome is hard to miss,”
said Garcia.
For the Sociology Students Association,
Week of Welcome was the first time this
semester for the organization to recruit
new members.
“Sociology is important and many students
aren’t getting involved because they don’t
know what they want to do after they graduate,”
said Shawn Kim.
This department organization aims to inform
sociology majors about what is out there
for them. Through guest speakers and internships,
students get an idea of what the real world
is like in the field of sociology.
The Phi Kappa Tau fraternity was one of
the many Greek organizations looking to
recruit members and promote Greek life on
campus.
“I wanted to have fun and make new friends.
Phi Kappa Tau showed me brotherhood, diversity
and has taught me to be a leader,” said
Joe Baclig.
The Yoga Meditation Club offers students
an alternative lifestyle, which is healthy
and positive, for stress relief. Since most
students, at least once in their college
career, experience stress, Tandis Sadeghi
founded the club a year ago to give students
on campus a time where they can come together
and learn techniques of meditation and yoga.
“I needed a stress reliever and so far,
so good. I love it,” said Nga Tran.
Week of Welcome is important to all of these
organizations because it gives them name
recognition. Many of them had sign up sheets,
played music, handed out candy and smiling
faces, all to encourage students to get
involved.
“Week of Welcome is going very well,” said
Danny Vivian, A.S.I. president. “The tables
are full of organizations that are talking
to their neighbors and the students. I am
excited to see it.”
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