Written by Mitch Friesenborg \/\/ Photo by Madison Meyer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Men\u2019s social club Galaxy, which just celebrated its 75th anniversary on Homecoming weekend, participated in Club Week for the first time in decades. After being inactive for years, former Galaxy club members, now sponsors, approached junior Luke Phyllis to revive the club last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe sponsors found me and asked me to try and restart the club,\u201d Phyllis, who is currently the club\u2019s president, said. \u201cI worked with them very closely, and then all the baseball players jumped on board and that was really what carried us through to this semester and where we\u2019re sitting now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The club is currently comprised of many baseball players and are a major reason why the club came back with such success. Being athletes, the baseball team had little time for any other on-campus activities, and current members on the baseball team thought it would be a great way to get involved on campus. What started with two members, Galaxy became a club with 45 members overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe baseball players, they banded together, and they had told me that they wanted a club of their own,\u201d Phyllis said. \u201cThey were either gonna start one or jump into one that was dying, and then they heard me talking about Galaxy, and they were like, \u2018Hey, we\u2019re in,\u2019 and I was like, \u2018Perfect.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With their numbers ballooning and the narratives around the club\u2019s revival, Galaxy had a great pitch for incoming freshmen to join their club during this year\u2019s recruitment process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m trying to push the club to be better and bigger and a very close-knit group of men,\u201d Phyllis said. \u201cThere\u2019s a fair bit of challenges that come along with that, but you know what, we\u2019ll work through it. We\u2019ll be alright.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the members who joined last semester participated in his first Club Week and gave his reason for joining Galaxy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m friends with a lot of the baseball players,\u201d sophomore Nic Fraraccio said. \u201cI go to a lot of their games, so I figured it\u2019d be a nice experience to be in a club with them, and also I just really like the laid back environment, and I just think it\u2019s really enjoyable to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the club\u2019s queens, senior McKenna Oliver, also had a message for freshmen joining Galaxy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s awesome that a bunch of them helped bring it back, but our goal is to have it just be like any other club on campus, like anyone can join,\u201d Oliver said. \u201cI would never want anyone to feel like they can\u2019t be a part of Galaxy because they\u2019re not an athlete. \u2026 It\u2019s like a club for everyone, not just select people, and I think that\u2019s what they\u2019re really excited about: again it\u2019s just like getting to meet other people on campus and getting to be a part of the other side of college, other than the athlete life.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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