{"id":21412,"date":"2021-08-31T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T19:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21412"},"modified":"2021-08-31T12:55:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T19:55:56","slug":"camosun-college-student-society-excited-for-slightly-different-camfest-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/08\/31\/camosun-college-student-society-excited-for-slightly-different-camfest-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun College Student Society excited for slightly different Camfest this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year, during the first week of the fall semester, the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) holds Camfest, a welcome-back event for students. Camfest is happening this year from Tuesday, September 7 to Friday, September 10, and it will look a bit different than it has in previous years.<\/p>\n

CCSS outreach coordinator Quinn Park says that the CCSS is excited to welcome students back to campus, and he’s hopeful that doing Camfest a bit differently this year because of the pandemic is also a good way to reach more students. Camfest will no longer be two large events, as it has been in the past, but rather, a series of smaller-scale events.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to reach more students, but in a way that doesn’t congregate students,\u201d says Park.<\/p>\n

This year Camfest will be held Tuesday through Friday at both Interurban and Lansdowne simultaneously for a total of eight events.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel that, pandemic aside, this might be an interesting way to go, anyways,\u201d he says. \u201cWe’re all about trying new things, and it might be a good way to reach out to more students.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Students enjoying a previous year’s Camfest (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Park says that having several Camfests is a way to get students who are in classes at different times.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to remember, different class schedules and stuff will allow us to interact with the students\u2014on Thursday, for instance, we’re trying to reach out to evening-class students, 1:00 to 6:00 at both campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Park says that Camfest will have the same safety protocols that the rest of the college has.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnything that Camosun as an institution recommends or has a rule, we are following,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Park says that, similar to last year’s Camfest, the college and the CCSS are putting together bags of free items for students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey contain lots of swag,\u201d says Park, \u201cand we’re producing them ahead of time so we can hand them out to students [as] all one bag of swag, rather than lots of different bags of swag.\u201d<\/p>\n

Park says that the CCSS is excited to continue to grow their partnership with Camosun to produce Camfest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s always exciting, to get the institution fully involved with all the aspects of welcoming our members back to campus, or a lot of them to campus,\u201d says Park. \u201cIt’s exciting to, as usual, build a big spreadsheet and enter a lot of things into it to make this event happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Island Health’s mobile vaccination van will be at Camfest. It will be at Lansdowne on Wednesday, September 8 from 10 am to 4 pm and on the Interurban campus on Thursday, September 9 from 10 am to 4 pm. Park says that if it offers some students an easy way to get vaccinated, that’s a good thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was excited to hear Camosun made arrangements to bring in that van,\u201d he says. \u201cIt’s easy for us to add the additional space of a van. It’s a no-brainer to bring them in.\u201d<\/p>\n

See camosunstudent.org<\/a> for more information on Camfest and the student society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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