2008 Woodie Awards
No back to school blues, it's all about going green
By Dani Williams
Issue date: 11/21/08 Section: Premiere
Originally published: 11/20/08 at 6:29 PM CSTLast update: 11/20/08 at 6:27 PM CST
In the words of the '70s TV show "Welcome Back Kotter," student life will put together a "Welcome Back" for students when they return for spring classes in January.
Students will be welcomed back on the first days of classes Jan. 12-13 with a T-shirt, fruit, drinks and a calendar of spring events.
About 800 to 1,000 T-shirts will be passed out.
Student life has adopted the expression "Go Green,'" Jorge Posadas, director of student life, said Nov. 10.
Student life staff has come up with a couple of catchphrases for the T-shirt: "Our Future is Green" and "It's Easy Being Green."
"I believe we went with 'It's Easy Being Green'," Carrie Hernandez, student life specialist, said Tuesday.
The slogan "It's Easy Being Green" came to student life when someone thought of Kermit the Frog from Sesame Street singing his gloomy song, "It's Not Easy Being Green," Posadas said.
Student life has had "Welcome Back" for about three years, Posadas said.
There are lots of students that pass through the mall area going to their classes that join in on "Welcome Back," Posadas said.
"We do small things to make students recognize that we appreciate them," Posadas said.
"Welcome Back" is only for students because students are the ones paying for it through their student activity fees, Posadas said.
Student life will be broken up into shifts; the office will take the first shift of being out in the mall from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the general coaching staff will take the second shift from 4 p.m.- 6 p.m., Hernandez said.
Clubs interested in helping student life with "Welcome Back" should contact student life.
If you want to set up your own booths or even help pass out T- shirts, contact the office of student life.
Last year, student life provided pastries and coffee.
"We do our schedules a year in advance; contracts and purchasing take so long that we go ahead and do it a year early," Posadas said.
"Student life staff comes across events by putting together a proposal; it comes to me and if I agree to it, we'll do the event," Posadas said.
"If we get a lot of people who tell us that they didn't like it, we toss that idea out and won't do it again," Posadas said.
"SAC is a place that will treat you well and SAC is a good place where students belong," Posadas said.
Hernandez is also putting together a club called Go Green that will be active in the spring.
For more information on "Welcome Back" or Go Green, call 733-2680.
Students will be welcomed back on the first days of classes Jan. 12-13 with a T-shirt, fruit, drinks and a calendar of spring events.
About 800 to 1,000 T-shirts will be passed out.
Student life has adopted the expression "Go Green,'" Jorge Posadas, director of student life, said Nov. 10.
Student life staff has come up with a couple of catchphrases for the T-shirt: "Our Future is Green" and "It's Easy Being Green."
"I believe we went with 'It's Easy Being Green'," Carrie Hernandez, student life specialist, said Tuesday.
The slogan "It's Easy Being Green" came to student life when someone thought of Kermit the Frog from Sesame Street singing his gloomy song, "It's Not Easy Being Green," Posadas said.
Student life has had "Welcome Back" for about three years, Posadas said.
There are lots of students that pass through the mall area going to their classes that join in on "Welcome Back," Posadas said.
"We do small things to make students recognize that we appreciate them," Posadas said.
"Welcome Back" is only for students because students are the ones paying for it through their student activity fees, Posadas said.
Student life will be broken up into shifts; the office will take the first shift of being out in the mall from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the general coaching staff will take the second shift from 4 p.m.- 6 p.m., Hernandez said.
Clubs interested in helping student life with "Welcome Back" should contact student life.
If you want to set up your own booths or even help pass out T- shirts, contact the office of student life.
Last year, student life provided pastries and coffee.
"We do our schedules a year in advance; contracts and purchasing take so long that we go ahead and do it a year early," Posadas said.
"Student life staff comes across events by putting together a proposal; it comes to me and if I agree to it, we'll do the event," Posadas said.
"If we get a lot of people who tell us that they didn't like it, we toss that idea out and won't do it again," Posadas said.
"SAC is a place that will treat you well and SAC is a good place where students belong," Posadas said.
Hernandez is also putting together a club called Go Green that will be active in the spring.
For more information on "Welcome Back" or Go Green, call 733-2680.
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