{"id":4766,"date":"2021-05-03T09:33:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T14:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2021-05-03T09:33:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T14:33:27","slug":"cuc-hosts-spirit-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/?p=4766","title":{"rendered":"CUC Hosts Spirit Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Concordia University Chicago held its first ever Spirit Week from Tuesday, April 6 through Saturday, April 10. Spirit Week was created as a way to celebrate the university and promote school spirit in the simplest of ways.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The five day event featured different themes, games, and events each day in the triangle, and encouraged the students to support the athletic teams as they played throughout the week. Spirit Week was planned and organized by the Office of Student Leadership (OSLI) with the assistance of Rachel Lundstrom, the coordinator of student involvement.<\/span><\/p>\n

OSLI decided to host a Spirit Week for the first time because the annual homecoming week was cancelled in the fall due to COVID-19 restrictions.\u00a0 \u201cNo, this has never been done before,\u201d Lundstrom noted. \u201cDue to COVID we created and offered a range of new programs and events, and Spirit Week was just one example.\u201d OSLI partnered with various clubs and organizations across campus to plan and execute Spirit Week, crediting OSLI, Athletics, and Spiritual Life as contributors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 6 kicked off Spirit Week with a Sports Day theme. Students were encouraged to dress in their favorite sports attire and stop by the Triangle to play lawn games such as volleyball, cornhole, and giant jenga. The rest of the week followed a similar structure, encouraging students to participate in the dress up themes, but also offering activities to engage students and draw more attention to the school sanctioned events.\u00a0 Following Sports Day, the rest of the week featured 90\u2019s Day, Western Day, Maroon and Gold Day, and Tie Dye Day.<\/span><\/p>\n

A variety of students showed up to participate in various activities throughout the week. Freshman Mackenzie Straulin was one of the multiple student athletes who found joy in having something to do on campus again. \u201cI was surprised to see something actually going on outside and that there were a lot of people out there too,\u201d Straulin noted. \u201cI think that it was really good at promoting school spirit because I got my first yellow Concordia shirt and a bunch of other things.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were very lucky that on our first day we had beautiful weather and a lot of people came out for the Sports Day,\u201d Ludstrom added. \u201cUnfortunately the weather the rest of the week didn\u2019t permit for more outdoor events, but we filled those days with virtual options.\u201d\u00a0 Taking the place of the previously planned outdoor activities, virtual 90\u2019s trivia, virtual western themed escape room, and virtual game night were added to provide students with indoor activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the biggest drawbacks to this first Spirit Week was how few people seemed to know about it beforehand.\u00a0 Students noted that they didn\u2019t necessarily realize that the activities were being offered e for a specific reason. Straulin noted that \u201cit\u2019s always been like that when it comes to school events. The only notice we get is a bunch of emails that most people unsubscribe to or delete as soon as they see it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As campus life starts to return to more normalcy, CUC\u2019s OSLI will likely host more in-person and online events.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":4767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","category-life-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}