Events welcoming students to UTRGV continued last week, including the CPB Bash, where they had the chance to meet representatives from different organizations, play multiple games and eat free food.
Hosted Tuesday night on the Heritage and Troxel halls lawn by the Campus Programming Board, the bash featured music and a carnival theme. Around 10 CPB members helped prepare food, hand out T-shirts, pens and other promotional items. Similarly, about 30 to 50 student organization members assisted with preparing tables and their exhibits.
Around 150 people showed up on the Edinburg campus for the event there. The same event was held Wednesday night on the University Library lawn in Brownsville.
Students who showed up received hot dogs freshly made on a grill and chips. For entertainment, there were multiple games and a bouncy house. Students socialized and sang along to the music.
“The goal is to get students engaged … have students come out and have fun, interact with other students, student-athletes, student leaders, new freshmen. Kind of just get everyone mixed together,” said Daniel Ruiz, CPB’s vice president of membership and retention.
Ruiz helped organize the event along with several other organizations, including Habitat for Humanity, Operation Smile and Pre-Med/Bio-Med Society.
“We are trying to get outreach, especially to freshman students,” said Angela Gonzalez, secretary of the Pre-Med/Bio-Med Society. “We not only prepare pre-meds but also nurses, PAs, anything that has to deal with health care.”
Abood Jamal, the fundraising officer for the Pre-Med/Bio-Med Society, said, “At the same time, we are trying to get people who are not our members the idea of what we do and what’s our program and target. … We do résumé building, have volunteer opportunities and hours. … We have a medical trip to multiple medical schools in Texas.”
For more information on student organizations, call Student Involvement at 665-2260 in Edinburg and 882-5111 in Brownsville.
