Reynolds is hosting numerous events
the first week of classes to welcome students to each of its campuses.
“Welcome Back Parties”, that have been
a long standing tradition held by Student Life, give students the opportunity
to meet their peers and have a little fun while preparing for the start of the
new fall semester. Students are treated
to a myriad of activities, free items and food such as music, caricature
artist, tattoos, snow cones, cotton candy and popcorn just to name a few.
Student Life Specialist Jackie
Manley believes that the Welcome Back Parties are an excellent way to get the
school year off to a good start. “The
Welcome Back event is all about enjoying the college and the campus and meeting
new people,” said Manley. “The only thing I want students to take away from this,
is that although we want them to take care of their academics, they can still
have fun while they’re here too.”
Counselor for Student Life Cara Luyster
echoed those sentiments stating that Reynolds has a wide variety of fun and
activities that will be available to students throughout the school year. “We want students to know there are fun
activities like this going on at Reynolds,” said Luyster. “Some students come
and don’t expect activities like this to be happening here, so we want to
advertise about Student Life, upcoming events, clubs and leadership programs - there
are a lot of different opportunities here that they maybe didn’t anticipate.”
While attending the “Welcome Back
Party” on Parham Road Campus, second semester student Stephanie Agudelo said
the event was certainly worth a look for students. “There’s some great people out here and
they’re really nice,” said Agudelo.
“There’s some free stuff here and it’s nice to get free stuff every once
in a while.”
For more information about upcoming
Student Life events, visit www.reynolds.edu
or contact the Office of Student Life at (804) 371-3000.
This
article was provided by Reynolds Communications Intern Derric Cushman.
Derric is working on his master's degree at the University of Oklahoma.
He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Charlotte and
served as a Navy Mass Communication Specialist where he worked with
print
journalism, photography and public affairs as well as TV and radio
broadcasting
at the Defense Information School (DINFOS) at Fort Meade, MD.
