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Students learn about the multitude of student organizations on campus campus at the Involement Fair
Campus involvement at its best
The Pointer
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This year’s involvement fair had quite the turnout, which anyone could tell by walking into The Laird Room on the evening of Thursday, Sept. 10. It was clear to see that students have countless opportunities to get involved on campus.
When walking in, students immediately saw signs promoting everything from the Allen Center to the many campus sororities. It was a hustle and bustle of people, everyone trying to get their few words in before someone ventured past them.
The involvement fair featured on campus organizations as well as those based off campus, all looking for people to help them out.
According to Sherri Vetter from St. Michael’s Hospital, “We count on this fair to bring in our volunteers. Almost everyone we talk to who signs up follows through and helps us in any way they can.”
Many on-campus organizations have paid positions on their boards to help students stay afloat with the economy. Residence Hall Association and newly named SPTV (formally Student Television 98) are just two of the many organizations that offer paid positions. But with the school’s new budget, students fear that on campus jobs like this may be disappearing.
Tracy Berg, promotions coordinator for SPTV, explains, “Well I’m not sure the economy really affected our organization, if it has, it has affected the entire university since we are funded through them.”
Another organization that is based off campus is the Lincoln Hills Poetry Project. This year was their first year back in three years simply because they have had such a good turnout from the fair they had to start turning applicants down.
But this year they had high hopes. President Katelynn Paape commented, “Considering we had no literature to provide we were rather pleased at this count [43 new members]. It’s an appropriate size for trying new activities to expand the club, yet is not so large as to ‘lose’ members during our expansion efforts.”
Another popular organization was Colleges Against Cancer, promoting events such as Bowling for Boobs which helps raise money for breast cancer.
At the end of the night students walked out with bags of papers, fliers and amounts of candy equatable to a night of Halloween trick-or-treating from the many organizations that caught their eye.
