TORONTO -- While there won’t be any pub crawls, water-balloon fights, or dance parties, universities across the country are reminding students that frosh week isn’t cancelled, it’s just going to be a little different this year.
Megan Town, the vice-president of education with the University of Waterloo Undergraduate Student Union, said they’re trying to recapture the excitement of the first week with a variety of virtual activities. “We kind of set out to design orientation this year with the goals of achieving many of the usual outcomes of orientation, like building a sense of community and learning about campus traditions as well as the resources that students need to succeed, but all delivered online so it's accessible to students no matter where they are,” she said.
“So [we’ve organized] different interactions, more academic online orientations, allowing students to go even if they're abroad or they're unable to commute to Toronto,” she told CTV’s Your Morning on Wednesday. That’s why Deng said Ryerson University students have already started meeting each other through online chat groups and mentoring programs.
“We are preparing to support students and enhance their student experience in lots of new ways, so primarily through online engagement and potentially a few social distancing events,” she told CTV News Ottawa earlier in August.At Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Que., frosh week will consist of a blend of virtual events and in-person activities that will require participants to wear face masks.
A week after Frosh week, classes will be reduced thus making distancing easy.
It certainly won’t feel the same scrambling to cover my kids ears, while a horde of drunk teens shout, “FUCK YOU, OTTAWA U!”
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