Committee Meeting to Consider Future of Welcome Week

Word on the street is that administrators are seriously considering a drastic shortening of the Fall Welcome Week programs. A committee has been formed to discuss the point of Welcome Week, and where certain “idle time” can be eliminated to make the activities more efficient and effective.

Dean Kenney, who discussed the plan briefly at the last ASUC Senate meeting, stated that the motivation of the committee was to save money and resources for the university. However, she would not deny that the recent crackdowns on Greek life were at all related to this move. Most of the IFC violations come during Welcome Week parties.

If Welcome Week activities are curtailed, it will affect all student groups, which use the time to recruit new members both inside and outside of official university events. In addition, it could prove to be damaging to the crucial “settling-in period” for new students, especially those from outside of California.

The amount of student involvement in the final decision has yet to be seen. Hopefully, this will not be a repeated attempt of the university to ram policy down the throats of 33,000 students.
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