{"id":7338,"date":"2011-01-10T13:29:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=7338"},"modified":"2011-01-10T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:47:03","slug":"frost-week-starts-semester-with-a-chill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/01\/frost-week-starts-semester-with-a-chill\/","title":{"rendered":"Frost Week starts semester with a chill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7339\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7339\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7339 \" title=\"Dylan Cullis, Brendan Thompson, Shailene Lepore\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/frostweek.jpg\" alt=\"Dylan Cullis, Brendan Thompson, Shailene Lepore\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BUSU is distributing toques and hot chocolate around campus. From left: students Dylan Cullis (Sport Management), Brendan Thompson (Sport Management), Shailene Lepore (BUSU Student Welcoming Awareness Team leader) and Jessica Synott (BUSU diverse abilities representative).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Students returning to school this week are being greeted by five days of Frost Week activities.<\/p>\n<p>The annual event, organized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.busu.net\" target=\"_blank\">Brock University Students\u2019 Union<\/a> (BUSU), is known this year as Frost Week 2011: Ice Ice Baby.<\/p>\n<p>Activities range from a euchre tournament to handing out free birthday cake to celebrate BUSU\u2019s 40th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity for students to find out what services are available to them this semester and to get people back in the groove,\u201d said Curtis Bell, BUSU special events and Isaac\u2019s Army co-ordinator. \u201cWe want to get everyone involved as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a list of events this week:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday, Jan. 10<\/strong><br \/>\nBUSU staff and volunteers are handing out free hot chocolate and BUSU toques at six locations around campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, Jan. 11<\/strong><br \/>\nBUSU will give out free birthday cake across campus. At 9 p.m., BUSU will host the Silent Headphone Disco Stoplight Party at Isaac\u2019s Bar and Grill. This is an all ages event where students will dance while listening to two different DJs on wireless headphones. The Campus Store is sponsoring the event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, Jan. 12<\/strong><br \/>\nLocal and national companies will showcase their products and services during the Frost Week Vendor and Club Fair at Isaac\u2019s. At 1 p.m., Union Station will host its first burger-eating contest where teams of four will take on a homemade five-pound burger. Volunteers will also scrape windows on campus and accept donations for the Alzheimer Society. There will also be music trivia and karaoke at 9 p.m. at Isaac\u2019s following men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, Jan. 13<\/strong><br \/>\nThere will be a Condom Poker Casino Night at the Ian Beddis Gym. BUSU will hand out more than $1,000 in prizes and crown a poker champion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, Jan. 14<\/strong><br \/>\nBUSU will host its second annual Euchre Tournament at the Skybar Lounge starting at 12 noon. Students can sign up as a team or as individuals at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.busu.net\/frost\" target=\"_blank\">busu.net\/frost<\/a>. At 5 p.m., the Brock Off-Campus Society will take students to the TD Rink at the Brink in Niagara Falls. The event will be $3 for members or $8 for non-members. Skate rentals are available. BUSU will also take students to the men\u2019s hockey game at the Seymour Hannah arena at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5. The after party will be a Yuk Yuk\u2019s Comedy Night at Isaac\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students returning to school this week are being greeted by five days of Frost Week activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[133,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338"}],"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=7338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7343,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions\/7343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}