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Contact: Julie Navejar
kajam03@tamuk.edu or 361-593-2590

From Move-In Day to Welcome Dance, Javelina Welcome has something for all

KINGSVILLE (August 9, 2005) — Students at Texas A&M University-Kingsville are getting ready to return to classes Monday, Aug. 22, but before they do, they will be treated to five days of workshops and fun during Javelina Welcome that begins Friday, Aug. 19.

The big welcome starts on move-in day as students check into their residence halls for the fall semester. When they arrive Friday, they will be greeted by administrators, faculty and staff members and fellow students who will help them carry all their belongings to their rooms in this Javelina tradition.

A special opening session will officially welcome the students to the university. This event will be held at 3 p.m. in ballroom A of the Memorial Student Union Building.

Following the open session, students will have the opportunity to meet with their college deans at 4 p.m. in various rooms in the Memorial Student Union Building. At 5 p.m. students and their families may have dinner in the Tejas Room.

If you live in a residence hall, there will be activities beginning at 7 p.m. Students will meet their resident advisor, hall mates and learn about living together in a residence hall community.

Students who participated in Hoggie Days will have the opportunity to renew friendships at the Color Group Reunion at 8 p.m. at various locations around campus. During Hoggie Days, students were divided by colors and each color will get together again for more fun. Check the Javelina Welcome packet for each color location.

Later that evening students will attend Playfair, a team-building event geared to help new students make friends on campus. The program will get underway at 9 p.m. in the Steinke Physical Education Center.

To cap off a busy day, comedian Rob Paravonian will perform at 10:30 p.m. in ballroom A of the Memorial Student Union Building. Paravonian is known at the guitar-playing comic. He has appeared on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend and Hi Fi Party, VH1’s Random Play and Oxygen’s Breakup Girl. Admission is free.

After breakfast Saturday, Aug. 20, students will have a chance to give back as they do community service projects around campus and Kingsville. Then it is time for lunch and more workshops.

Students can attend a variety of workshops Saturday. The first is entitled The Ultimate Road Trip: Campus2Career and it is scheduled at 1:30 p.m. This program gives students the confidence they need to survive their first college year and use their entire college experience to drive themselves toward future career success.

A group of three mandatory workshops will be held from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Workshops include Choose or Lose about how to make smart choices; Campus Safety: A Community Responsibility about the importance of campus safety; and Nobody Told Me About THAT! where students receive their handbook and learn their rights and responsibilities.

Later that evening, from 9 p.m. to midnight, the Student Union Building will be open with activities in Dive into the SUB night. The food court will be open with you favorite nighttime snack while you play a game of pool or enter the PlayStation 2 tournament.

Students who still need to purchase school and residence hall supplies may attend Wal-Mart Madness from midnight until 2 a.m. A shuttle bus will meet at the parking lot between Bishop and Martin Halls and take those last minute shoppers to the Kingsville Wal-Mart.

Students still not comfortable getting around campus may sign up for Went on the Campus Tour … Now I’m Lost from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21. A Javelina Welcome leader will escort students around campus with their schedules to assist them in finding their first classes.

At 1:30 p.m. students may attend Aiming at A’s—How to Make the Grade at TAMUK. Location is assigned by group number. This session is designed to provide students with the skills needed to make graduation a reality. It is sponsored by Coastal Community and Teachers Credit Union, First Convenience Bank, Wells Fargo and Kleberg Bank.

Top off the night by watching a good movie, The Longest Yard, in room 100 of the Biology Earth Sciences building. There will be two showings at 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Then it is time to take a break from the fun because classes start Monday, Aug. 22.

That afternoon students can learn how to make some extra money during How to Find the Perfect College Job at 4 p.m. in room 219 of the Memorial Student Union Building.

Javelina Welcome will officially end at the welcome back dance Wednesday, Aug. 23. More information on the dance will be announced at a later date.

For more information about the Javelina Welcome, call 361-593-2760.

This page last updated 10 August, 2005