UC Welcomes First-Year Students

Full Welcome Week Schedule (includes mandatory activities)

Friday, Sept. 17
10 a.m.  Turner, Schneider, Siddall and Dabney Halls will open to students. Peak times to see the crowds should take place between 9:30 a.m. and noon, with the out-of-towners arriving at around 6 p.m.

2-5 p.m.  Delta Sigma Pi Cornhole Tournament on McMicken Commons

5-8:30 p.m.  Association for India’s Development (AID) welcome party on McMicken Commons (Rain location: TUC Great Hall)

Saturday, Sept. 18

10 a.m.  All residence halls open

2-6 p.m.  Battle of the Halls will be held on McMicken Commons. Sponsored by UC fraternities and sororities, teams of students will represent their residence halls as they compete in games of cornhole, relays, tug-of-war contests and water balloon tosses.

Sunday, Sept. 19

2-3 p.m.  Convocation – UC President Nancy L. Zimpher will address first-year students at this formal welcome to the university. Convocation will be held in Fifth Third at Shoemaker Center. Doors will open at 12:30 p.m. Students will assemble at the Armory Fieldhouse at 1:15 p.m. The most dramatic portion of Convocation comes at the end of the ceremony as a class banner is raised in tribute to the new students. The banner is made of flags that the students designed during Orientation to reflect their idea of UC’s Just Community initiative. Convocation will be webcast live at: http://streaming.uc.edu/convocation/2004.asx

3 p.m.  March to MainStreet – President Zimpher, UC faculty and staff, the UC cheerleaders and the Bearcat Marching Band will lead the Convocation crowd to Tangeman University Center (TUC) on MainStreet for the annual Convocation cookout.

8 p.m.-1 a.m.  Frenzy 2004 – This welcome will feature music, dancing, dance lessons, photos with the bearcat, artists, food and prizes for new and returning students. Sponsored by Resident Education and Development, the second-annual get-together will be held from 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 19, in the TUC Great Hall. UC’s first Frenzy last year drew nearly 230 people.

Monday, Sept. 20

6:30-8:30 p.m. Game Night – UC’s Campus Green will feature volleyball, cornhole, food, and D.J. Haze of Club Clau.

8-10 p.m. Barn Dance in the TUC Great Hall

Tuesday, Sept. 21

10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.  “Arti-factual” animals roam UC’s Design College: Up to 500 first-year students in UC’s highly regarded College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning – which houses the country’s number-one ranked architecture and interior design programs – will turn their new college into a veritable zoo. The students will break into small groups in Room 4400, DAAP, to work out their first design problem:  making recognizable animals from cast-off items like old clothes, rocks, branches, lighting fixtures, wood, CDs and all manner of garbage.  This is the third year for the “DAAP Menagerie,” and past years have produced both humorous and realistic penguins (from plastic pop bottles and bags), flamingos (of pink paper), alligators (of Styrofoam packing squares with straw teeth), bunnies (with cough-drop eyes) and even a remarkably realistic Big Bird (made from a kiddie-school sign).
 

4-7:30 p.m.  Akawaaba – The annual Black Student Welcome will be held on Sigma Sigma Commons.

5-8 p.m.  Noche Latina – A student-sponsored event in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month will be held on McMicken Commons. The event features a night of Latino culture and celebration with traditional food and music. Noche Latina is sponsored by Alpha Psi Lambda Fraternity, the nation’s first co-ed Latin fraternity, which is organizing this year at UC.

7-9 p.m.  Magician Eric Brouman performs in the Great Hall.

Wednesday, Sept. 22

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.  Jack White billiards demo – The “Professor of Poology,” is an internationally regarded billiards and trick shot artist. He’ll dazzle billiards fans at a demonstration inside Tangeman University Center.

Noon-3 p.m.  Club Hispano Game Day – Club Hispano is a UC student organization that unites students who are interested in learning about the Hispanic culture and speaking Spanish. The group is planning a “Build Your Own Quesadilla” game in the Great Hall of TUC as part of National Hispanic Heritage Month. Using cardboard cutouts of ingredients for a Quesadilla, players will “win” their ingredients by answering questions about Hispanic culture, language and geography. The first players to complete their quesadilla win a prize.

Thursday, Sept. 23

2-6 p.m.  Students can test their strength and endurance by taking on the rock-climbing wall that will be set up on McMicken Commons.

9-10:30 p.m. Last Comic Standing – The stars of the NBC hit, “Last Comic Standing,” Rich Vos, Cory Kahaney and Bonnie McFarlane, will perform at the TUC Great Hall.

Friday, Sept. 24

6 p.m.-1 a.m. Bearcat Live – This annual outdoor free concert at UC is billed as one of the biggest events of the fall quarter. The concert will take place on Sigma Sigma Commons (rain location: Great Hall) and will feature the bands Shinedown, Crossfade and Silvertide. Beverages and food will be offered at a minimal charge.