Welcome Week is about showing students both old and new what Skyline has to offer so for the fourth day of the event the student run clubs got to show students what’s available for them.

Following yesterdays Program services fair Student Activities held an event in the quad showing off the different clubs here at Skyline in an effort to get students to be more involved.

“The club fair is designed so that our campus clubs and organizations can do outreach to the student body, let them know what our clubs are about, when they’re meeting and to recruit new members,” Said Amory Cariadus coordinator of Student Activities. “[The main focus is] letting students know of all the different ways they can get involved in student organizations and take advantage of volunteer and leadership opportunities that we have here on campus.”

Both Amory and Heidi Hansen, president of Associated Students, were present at the event at their own booth with Hansen sometimes working the microphone letting students know what clubs were available.

The event begun around 9:00am with different clubs coming and going as they please. According to Danielle Palengat the assistant to the Coordinator “No clubs will be turned away.”

Almost every club has some form of free prizes to those attending their booth but one in particular was the cosmetology booth which gave away free haircuts, curling, straightening, and manicures to whoever stopped by.

 Laurie Biagi the Advisor of Cosmetology wanted student to know this day was for students to know about the importance of clubs and the benefits that come with it.

“Students need to know that they have a place and they can go somewhere to be able to talk to other people that need the same things they do. So clubs are very good during school and after school,” Said Biagi. “We’re all one team, everyone is here for the same reason to get an education and make everyone a success.”

For many the event was not so much promoting clubs but promoting a way in which students can network themselves and get to know other people in their respective fields.

“[Today] provides great opportunities for students to network and get involved in their campus, making sure their voices are heard when policies and decisions are made,” Said Amory. “the more relationships you build [you’ll] have greater contact with people, it opens up the doors of opportunities to you…to better yourself and your community.”

Many club people in attendance shared this idea of networking can benefit students. One student who was keen to this idea was Camille Espiritu the Vice President of Beta Theta Omicron who felt that it’s more important for people to get involved in clubs.

“I think, as a business major, that networking is really important,” said Espiritu. “I know a few people that I actually met through clubs that I talk to and they’re my friends, so it feels like camaraderie.

One student attending the fair was Rebekah Litton who either didn’t know about any of the clubs or had never seen any of them in person prior to coming to the fair.

“It’s a good way to inform students about the different clubs that Skyline offers. You get to mingle with other people and you get to meet other people in the community who have the same viewpoints as you,” said Litton. “I think you can take anything that you learn [here], even from a club you took at skyline for one semester with you throughout the rest of your life.