{"id":11882,"date":"2011-09-07T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T20:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=11882"},"modified":"2011-09-08T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:32:06","slug":"o-week-in-full-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/09\/o-week-in-full-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"O-Week in full swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11881\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11881\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11881 \" title=\"students celebrate O-Week\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/oweek2.jpg\" alt=\"Students celebrate O-Week during the second day of the Vendor Fair. \" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curtis Bell (far left), Isaac&#39;s Army co-ordinator, celebrates O-Week with fellow students during the second day of the Vendor Fair. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>O-Week is in full swing, and students are mixing and mingling during a full slate of events this week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11883\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11883\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11883  \" title=\"Kevin Moore\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/oweekhelmet.jpg\" alt=\"Student Kevin Moore models some of the Isaac's Army headgear distributed by BUSU this week.\" width=\"216\" height=\"325\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student Kevin Moore dons some of the Isaac&#39;s Army headgear distributed by BUSU this week.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brock is welcoming nearly 4,000 first-year students this year, all of whom are invited to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.busu.net\/oweek\" target=\"_blank\">O-Week<\/a> events planned by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.busu.net\" target=\"_blank\">Brock University Students\u2019 Union<\/a>. The schedule ranges from the Rock the Red Tower Party on Monday to the Residence Summer Games on Sunday, Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going great,\u201d said Luke Speers, BUSU\u2019s Vice-President University Affairs. \u201cThe weather\u2019s kind of been co-operating, but it could have been worse. Everyone\u2019s excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday afternoon marked the end of a two-day Vendor Fair in front of the Schmon Tower, where campus and community organizations distributed information. Vendors ranged from the Brock Anime Club to large businesses such as Shoppers Drug Mart.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s concerts are Avicii at 6 p.m. tonight at Weatherstation Field and The Trews and Classified on Saturday, Sept. 10 at 5 p.m. at Weatherstation Field.<\/p>\n<p>Students will also take part in a Shinerama fundraiser known as Shine Day on Saturday, Sept. 10. They will shine shoes and cars and host barbecues at more than 20 sites across Niagara. The annual fundraiser benefits cystic fibrosis research. <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/webfm_send\/18270\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/webfm_send\/18270\">\u2022 Click here to download a BUSU press release with a list of Shinerama locations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In general, students are spending O-Week doing what they\u2019re supposed to do, which is having fun, making friends and getting to know Brock, Speers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope students who have come here to the University see that Brock is a community,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s nothing like what they encountered in high school. We want them to meet friends, meet neighbours and start identifying themselves as part of the Brock family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related stories:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=11693\">DJ will headline BUSU&#8217;s O-Week activities<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=11693\"> | <em>The Brock News<\/em><\/a><em><br \/>\n\u2022 <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=11786\">Brock set to attract record numbers<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=11786\"> | <em>The Brock News<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3285728\" target=\"_blank\">Moving on up \u2014 <em>St. Catharines Standard<\/em><\/a> (an article about Monday&#8217;s Residence Move-In Day)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students are mixing and mingling during a full slate of events this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11882"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11886,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882\/revisions\/11886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}