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Senior
Luke Davidson and sophomore Dianna Gilker
try and recruit students for the beach crew
club this week at the Week Of Welcome. •
John Cook / Daily Forty-Niner
Clubs
in full swing as Week Of Welcome begins
By
Robert Meeks
Daily Forty-Niner
Contributing Writer
With
an estimated 20 new student organizations
started in the past year – and several
this Fall — officials in the office
of Student Life and Development (SLD) are
urging greater campus involvement from new
and continuing students.
According
to Diane Taylor, administrative assistant
at SLD, there are more than 200 clubs and
organizations ranging from academic and
cultural to special interest such as the
CSULB Chess Club.
Many
of these organizations will be participating
in the Week of Welcome Sept. 7-9 in the
student activities area the second week
of school.
Taylor
said the event offers students an opportunity
to discover new clubs and make contacts
with any organizations they may be interested
in.
"Not
necessarily every [organization] will participate
but they are all welcome to." she said.
Some
of the new student clubs this year are;
Beach Balls, Boanerges and C.O.U.G.H. (the
Campus Organized and United for Good Health).
James
Davis, Chapter President and co-founder
of Boanerges, an organization focused on
personal empowerment, is still determining
whether he will participate in the Week
of Welcome.
Davis
emphasized that students should get involved
or even build their own clubs if they find
something is missing from the "college
experience."
"The
benefits of joining an organization on campus
is that you get to network with people who
are in the organization and get see how
it is run behind the scenes as opposed to
seeing the finished product of an event,"
he said.
SLD
coordinator Jeffrey Riah, who works with
students who run, start or have an interest
in various campus groups said he also champions
student involvement while at CSULB whether
on or off the campus.
"We
encourage this but it is especially difficult
on a commuter campus like this one where
the tendency is to pull up take your classes
then leave," Riah said. Students are
welcome to the SLD offices, said Riah, to
get information on campus organizations
and contact information from any five clubs
at a time. In addition, students can pick
up a packet explaining the process of starting
their own organization or visit the Student
Life and Development Web site at csulb.edu.
"Anybody
who is really interested in starting a club
can begin by coming down to the front desk
and make an appointment and we can talk,"
Riah said.
SLD
coordinators assist would-be clubs by taking
them through the process of determining
what kind of organization it is and helping
them establish workable bylaws that have
to be in line with several CSULB regulations
and approved by a committee headed by Associated
Students Inc.
If
a club is approved over the course of the
next several weeks it maintains contact
with SLD coordinators to assist and advise.
According
to Riah, Student Life and Development also
puts on leadership events, coordinates community
service and promotes student involvement
in every aspect.
"There's
a quote we keep over our door here at the
office from President Maxon; "If all
you do is go to class you're not getting
the best education you can," Riah said.
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