Club fair set out to recruit students for fun activities
Quidditch, human life and The Bible interest clubs all around campus
By: Tom Knauer
Issue date: 1/25/08 Section: News
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The Spring Club and Organization Fair featured more than 90 associations based off and on campus. They set up booths on the Mall from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., intercepting students, faculty and staff between classes and on their way home.
"The weapons got our attention," said Gaby Wilson, political science senior.
She and Zohra Yaqub, a Near Eastern studies graduate student and fellow jujutsu fanatic, spoke with representatives at the Bujinkan Yamaneko Dojo, a Tucson martial arts school that holds adult classes four days a week on the Mall.
The organizations ranged from the philanthropic to the religious and beyond. Many looked to stock their memberships, while others enlisted temporary helpers for
upcoming events.
A booth for the UA's branch of Up 'Til Dawn, an affiliate group of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, recruited individuals for a letter-writing drive March 1 in the Student Union Memorial Center.
Jonathan Homan, a political science sophomore, said the branch is trying to raise $10,000 for children's cancer research in an effort paralleling those at universities across the country.
"It's a great cause," he said. "You can't go wrong here."
About 30 yards away, two students presided over a table decked out with bite-sized candy peppering the rim of a black, pointed witch's hat, and the latest "Harry Potter" book erected high and proud.
To passers by - muggles and the wizard-conscious alike - they asked: "Do you want to play Quidditch?"
The UA Quidditch Club, inspired by the game played in author J.K. Rowling's acclaimed fantasy series, materialized for the first time this semester. It seeks at least 28 individuals interested in riding around in a non-flying version of the game, running around and straddling broomsticks in a mix of soccer, rugby and basketball.
Club president John Putz got the idea when he learned, via a Facebook search, of the International Association of Quidditch.
He then found out that teams had formed as close as Utah and Arizona State University.
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