Passport to Auburn
Auburn University hosted its annual Welcome Week this past August 14-21. The mission of Welcome Week is to serve as a way to welcome Auburn University’s new and returning students to campus for the fall semester and to the Auburn Family. This year’s staff was comprised of students including Charlie Townsend, Director, Caroline Catchpole, Assistant Director, Carlita Lett-Blades, Jennifer Henson, Raven Conwell, Ben Bold, Nina-DeJohn Robinson, and Megan Danielson and faculty Advisor, Michelle Murphy.
The week was packed with more than 50 events on campus ranging from the Block Party, pep rally, free movie, to outdoor activities, community service events, and class tours. Director Charlie Townsend said that it took he and his staff about eight months to plan Welcome Week, beginning with weekly meetings in January, then shifting to one to two times a day during the summer. When asked why he wanted to be director, he readily claimed that, “One thing Welcome Week always does is give back to the student body.” And the staff did just that indeed.
It all began on Saturday, Aug 14 with Move-In, complete with free water and some move-in helpers and a Welcome Week Kickoff in the Student Center Green Space filled with live entertainment, food, and fun. Again, according to Townsend, the kickoff “had about two thousand people come.” Other activities throughout the week included a War Eagle T-shirt Exchange, in which students can exchange an opposing college or university t-shirt for an Auburn t-shirt for free, an Out-of-State Pizza Party, and a Screen on the Green, located on the Student Center Green Space. New events such as Casino Night and listening to a comedian were added to the line-up this year. Townsend even declared that Casino night “had such an overwhelming turnout, like so many people came and we were a little bit understaffed at first because we were not expecting that many people to come.” Students enjoyed a variety of games this night such as Roulette and Texas Hold ‘Em and at the end of the night they could cash their “money” in and win prizes.
Overall, Welcome Week was a huge success, in which attendance at each event doubled or tripled compared to last year’s attendance. Towsend goes on to further declare that “even though it took a lot of planning and a lot of work, none of my team members regret it” and that “it was the best time we’ve ever had.”
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The week was packed with more than 50 events on campus ranging from the Block Party, pep rally, free movie, to outdoor activities, community service events, and class tours. Director Charlie Townsend said that it took he and his staff about eight months to plan Welcome Week, beginning with weekly meetings in January, then shifting to one to two times a day during the summer. When asked why he wanted to be director, he readily claimed that, “One thing Welcome Week always does is give back to the student body.” And the staff did just that indeed.
It all began on Saturday, Aug 14 with Move-In, complete with free water and some move-in helpers and a Welcome Week Kickoff in the Student Center Green Space filled with live entertainment, food, and fun. Again, according to Townsend, the kickoff “had about two thousand people come.” Other activities throughout the week included a War Eagle T-shirt Exchange, in which students can exchange an opposing college or university t-shirt for an Auburn t-shirt for free, an Out-of-State Pizza Party, and a Screen on the Green, located on the Student Center Green Space. New events such as Casino Night and listening to a comedian were added to the line-up this year. Townsend even declared that Casino night “had such an overwhelming turnout, like so many people came and we were a little bit understaffed at first because we were not expecting that many people to come.” Students enjoyed a variety of games this night such as Roulette and Texas Hold ‘Em and at the end of the night they could cash their “money” in and win prizes.
Overall, Welcome Week was a huge success, in which attendance at each event doubled or tripled compared to last year’s attendance. Towsend goes on to further declare that “even though it took a lot of planning and a lot of work, none of my team members regret it” and that “it was the best time we’ve ever had.”
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