Involvement Fair draws prospective club members

Dozens of campus organizations took over the quad Wednesday afternoon to recruit interested students.

Story and Photos by Erin Gavle

Published: September 5, 2018

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Nordia Mullings reaches to shake hands with an interested member of JUMP, a mentorship program that pairs 8th graders with college students.

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Senior Lorena Kanzki (far left) speaks to a potential new member for Otto’s Empire – a bellydancing troupe that she founded during her freshman year.

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Junior engineering student Chris Hauck (left) and faculty member Kathleen Feyh (right) were at the fair to “meet social activists who want to get involved,” said Feyh.

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New York Public Interest Research Group representatives were on hand to discuss voting and social justice concerns in the Syracuse area.

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Juniors Savannah Taylor, Kala Fogg, and Azalyn Gonzalez spent the afternoon recruiting new members for Creations Dance Company which is holding auditions this weekend.

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Students had the opportunity to take photos with Barack Obama and Joe Biden cutouts at the Young Democrats’ table.

Wednesday’s scorcher outside didn’t deter dozens of registered student organizations from trying to recruit new members at the annual Student Involvement Fair on the quad.

While temperatures soared above 90 during the early afternoon, RSO members manned tables covered in banners, posters and balloons to tout how their groups contribute to the Syracuse University community. As students passed by, they were often enticed to stop with candy and other freebies in exchange for a signature on a sign-up sheet or a follow on a social media page.

The tables were largely grouped by organization type, with film, performance and dance troupes along the same path, political student orgs and social justice groups side by side, and club sports and fitness groups close to each other.

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