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Campus busy for Cougar Welcome
Maggie Willis
Issue date: 8/21/07 Section: News
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"I only know two people who go to school here," Wojack said, "and they just went to school with me, we didn't hang out or anything. None of my friends came down here."
Wojack is among 1,322 freshmen who moved in Friday.
Move-in day for Bluff Hall residents started off with the Bluff Hall check-in at the Engineering Building.
According to Michael Schultz, director of housing, Bluff Hall residents had an assigned time to move in.
"They couldn't check in before their assigned time," Schultz said. "They picked up their key and waited there until their line number was called to go over to Bluff Hall. My understanding is that most people got to go directly to Bluff Hall."
After arriving at the residence hall, students unpacked their belongings onto the curb and Movers & Shakers, volunteers who help other students move in, took them up to their rooms.
According to Schultz, this year's residence hall check-in was the fastest yet.
"It went really, really well," Schultz said. "I think we had everybody in all of the residence halls by 3 p.m. It's the fastest we've ever gotten done."
Not long after navigating through the Bluff check-in system at the Engineering Building, Wojack began meeting her wing, 3 West.
"My wing is pretty raw," Wojack said. "There are a lot of really cool people on our wing. My R.A. actually played sand volleyball with us."
After getting settled into her new home, Wojack went to a few Cougar Welcome activities, which are a little different this year.
As experienced students may know, previous welcome activities lasted a week. This year, however, Welcome Week has been changed to Cougar Welcome, a two-week string of events.
Cheryl Heard, the assistant director of the Kimmel Leadership Center and adviser to the Cougar Welcome committee, said the extension of Cougar Welcome was to allow student organizations more time to prepare and get organized.
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