Leila Haidar, ASUCR President and Myth Shankara Narayanan, Transfer Student Director welcomed new students during the New Highlander Welcome alongside Chancellor Hu, Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson, Michelle Almazan, Interim Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, Joshua Le, ASPB Chairperson and Cynthia Nguyen, ASPB Marketing Chair. The event was keynoted by Dr. Annie S. Ditta, Associate Professor of Teaching, Psychology.
Leila shared her journey from her small high school and finding her path at UCR. She encouraged students to be prepared to make mistakes, seek out opportunities, utilize the many ways they can get involved on campus and of course- go to class. Myth shared her memories of her first week on campus, wondering when this place would start to feel like her own. She recounted the moments the campus became more familiar, strangers became friends and how each moment built into something bigger, a sense of belonging. Both encouraged student work through any questions, doubts or hesitations while journeying to leave their mark at UCR.
The New Highlander Welcome is hosted by Student Life and their Traditions and Highlander Orientation teams!
The full event stream can be found here.
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We, the undergraduate students of the Riverside campus of the University of California, bestow governing authority to the Associated Students of the University of California at Riverside, an independent, student-directed, unincorporated, directly elected, three-branch student government, in order to set forth the ideals herein: to supplement and complement formal and informal education on this University of California campus; to propagate the general well-being of undergraduates; to fairly represent student interests, needs and welfare within the University community; to represent and articulate our rights to a voice in campus governance by fostering recognition of the rights of students and providing a forum to articulate and represent the views and interests of students; to recognize, represent, and support the diversity of needs and views of students at the University; to provide for the expression of student opinion and interests to the community at large on issues affecting student life; to provide services and coordinate activities for students, while advancing our common interests and concerns as students and as citizens; and, in pursuit of these ideals, through independent action and in concert with other constituencies of the university community, we hereby adopt this Constitution as the primary document governing the Associated Students of the University of California at Riverside.
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