2008 Woodie Awards
First Year Students Beautify Campus For Open House
Andrea C. Friswell
Issue date: 11/1/06 Section: Top Stories
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In preparation for William Paterson University's open house Oct. 29, about a dozen first year students, peer leaders and first year seminar instructors came together Oct. 27 to beautify the campus.
Outside Raubinger Hall, the group raked leaves, picked up litter and did everything else it could to make sure prospective students attending the open house would see the best looking campus WPU has to offer.
The volunteers painted trivia about the campus on pumpkins and placed them at each stop along to the tour route to give visitors a different way to learn about the school. In addition, students wrote some of their favorite memories about their first year in college on large cutout WPU initials.
"These projects are all in hope to strike a particular interest to one of the hopeful incoming freshman," said Christine Reustle, graduate assistant for Kim Daniel-Robinson, director of the first year experience.
Reustle said the project had been in planning for more than a month and served as a great way for first year students to contribute something to their campus.
"By giving them a community experience, they were able to convey what they have already experienced to other classmates," said peer-leader Caitlyn Grogaard. "The freshmen are doing something nice for themselves as well as others."
Outside Raubinger Hall, the group raked leaves, picked up litter and did everything else it could to make sure prospective students attending the open house would see the best looking campus WPU has to offer.
The volunteers painted trivia about the campus on pumpkins and placed them at each stop along to the tour route to give visitors a different way to learn about the school. In addition, students wrote some of their favorite memories about their first year in college on large cutout WPU initials.
"These projects are all in hope to strike a particular interest to one of the hopeful incoming freshman," said Christine Reustle, graduate assistant for Kim Daniel-Robinson, director of the first year experience.
Reustle said the project had been in planning for more than a month and served as a great way for first year students to contribute something to their campus.
"By giving them a community experience, they were able to convey what they have already experienced to other classmates," said peer-leader Caitlyn Grogaard. "The freshmen are doing something nice for themselves as well as others."
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