Club Week occured this week, Jan. 24-29, being the first Club Week since 1959 to be held in the spring semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Club Week typically takes place in October and involves shared meals and inter-club mingling. Instead, clubs had to find new ways to form relationships, even with the COVID-19 guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the new regulations included limiting numbers for events, shortening the time allowed for club activities and cancelling All Club, a nightly event that typically brings all clubs to the Rhodes-Reeves Field House. These regulations have kept several clubs from honoring long-standing traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have always done a service project during the week,\u201d senior Davis Rowan, president of men\u2019s social club Chi Sigma Alpha, said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many clubs traditionally do inter-club activities that could not happen this year, but that is not the only thing people missed. Clubs often go off campus, especially on Friday night, which was not allowed this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not every club is the same, however. Men\u2019s social club Sub T-16 president senior Ty Mote said that his club\u2019s most important traditions were not affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve made it possible with the guidelines and amended a few things that would allow us to do those long-standing traditions and still take part in things we\u2019ve done since the beginning of our establishment,\u201d Mote said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He, along with other Sub-T 16 officers and officers from other large clubs \u2014 including women\u2019s social clubs Zeta Rho, Ju Go Ju, Ko Jo Kai, Pi Theta Phi, and men\u2019s social clubs Titans, TNT and Gamma Sigma Phi \u2014 got together last semester and submitted a document to the deans in regard to Club Week. One of the topics discussed was how important All Club was. While All Club is one of the things banned this Club Week, the deans in charge have plans to possibly do it later in the spring semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAll Club and roll call are probably two of the biggest things that [could not] happen that some might [have been] disappointed about,\u201d Dean of Students Zachary Neal said. \u201cAnd just as soon as we get out from under the restrictions and we\u2019re in a safe opportunity related to health precautions, we will help organize that \u2014 maybe at a time of year that we\u2019ve never done before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the changes that have been made, many still see the good in having Club Week this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe deans have been nothing but helpful this whole time,\u201d Rowan said. \u201cI think that it\u2019s really amazing that we\u2019ve been allowed to have it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s going to be some chances for intimacy and getting to know each other that were not there before,\u201d women\u2019s social club Sigma Phi Mu sponsor Mary Fish said. \u201cWith bigger groups, it\u2019s hard to get to know each other, but this will provide some of that closer atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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