Students move into dorms on campus during the weekend before classes begin

CSC’s Week of Welcome introduces students to the community of Chadron with activities like the new Chadron State Park Day, Tuesday, and Uptown on Campus, Wednesday.
“I did want to incorporate some new things this year, mainly to do a lot of community building, because Chadron is so small,” said Northrup. “As a community, you know you have your college, but then you also have your off campus community, so bringing both of those together, I think is really important.”
Incorporating the State Park helped Northrup’s goal to bridge the community and campus.
The State Park included activities like a paddle boat race, a disc golf tournament, kickball, wiffle ball and archery. Student Senate paid to waive the parking pass fee for the day.
About 35 students attended the event.
“This is the first time ever doing something like this at the State Park. There is always a kick back to having it so far out of town. We tried to provide transportation, but it did not work out,” Northrup said.
Along with the State Park Day, Welcome Week opened with Move-In Thursday and included a Pancake Feed, the Backyard Bash Barbecue and Uptown on Campus.
With a few days left in the week, students can attend the Library Learning Commons, today, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Library; the Glow Party, tonight, 9 – midnight in The Hub; “Night at the
Museum,” Saturday, 7 p.m. – midnight; and Free Movie Night Sunday, 7 p.m. at the Eagle Theater.
Northrup began planning Welcome Week before the Spring semester ended in attempt to involve more clubs.
“I’m sure you can imagine that the minute students leave for the summer it’s automatically ‘emails off,’ ‘I’m cut off,’ and ‘no school,’” she said. “I tried to get them thinking about it and what activities they wanted to do.”