By Svenja van den Woldenberg, Staff Writer
During the first days of Fall 2011 at The University, the class of 2015 was thrown into a whirlwind of events and attractions that upperclassmen could have only dreamed about during previous Welcome Weeks.
The week included activities such as a Tracy Kidder discussion and book signing, mini golf in Axinn Library, a boardwalk in the Student Center, Hofstra’s Got Talent and more.
This year’s Welcome Week was considered a huge success by many students. Welcome Week Coordinator Liz Weeden credits most of the accomplishments not to herself and her colleagues, but to last year’s Welcome Week Coordinators.
“I have to give a huge amount of credit to the Welcome Week Coordinators [from] last year, Gennifer Delman, Andreya Shaak and Kaitlin Frisch,” said Weeden, a 20-year-old Public Relations and Global Studies major from the Finger Lakes. “They laid the groundwork for creating a fun and extensive Welcome Week program for first-year students, and this year we tried to build on what they Week.”
Joining the Welcome Week Coordinators were 80 Welcome Week Leaders, students who volunteered their time to make sure new students felt comfortable.
“I wish I was a freshman this year,” said Jimmy Sia, a junior and a Welcome Week Leader. “I would have loved to mini-golf my way through