IU Southeast held a penthouse party Sept. 17 and 18, to help students become more familiar with the Academic Success Center, Adult Student Center and Center for Mentoring.
“Basically all of student services planned to get together this fall to welcome students to campus and let them know where we are,” Sarah Gierke, Academic Advisor coordinator, said.
Gierke said one of the main reasons all of student services planned this party was to show students they are available to help students.
“I guess people see us as people you go to when you are in trouble and not as friends,” Girke said. “We are good people.”
Gierke said another reason the student services planned the penthouse party was to help new students with their passports while making it fun.
“We thought to do an event to get students with passports involved so they could knock out the passports and have fun while doing it,” Gierke said.
Students at the penthouse party played board games, Wii, Guitar Hero, Bingo and earned free pizza while learning where and what places are. Students got a piece of pizza when they answered true or false questions correctly about each office, and got each piece of paper with the question stamped by that office.
“The event is very informative,” Tori Killion, undecided freshman, said.
Jessica Rudolph, criminal justice freshman, said the penthouse party helped her understand what roles different offices play.
“We figured out what places are and where they are,” Rudolph said.
Sharon Lai, business senior, said she came to the party to represent the Center for Mentoring and to explain to fellow students what their program does.
“I’m here to promote programs in the mentoring program,” Lai said. “We help students to locate resources and networking on campus.”
“This is fun,” Rebecca Ward, criminal justice freshman, said. “Everybody is energetic and I like the food. Food is a good motivator and will make more people come.”
Ward is one of several students who attended the second day of the event.
“I’m looking forward to bingo because they have great prizes,” she said.
By ERICA SELLERS
Staff writer
emseller@ius.edu
