CHaSS Week entertains USU
Representatives from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences started CHaSS Week off right by winning the third-annual Quiz Bowl on Monday.
The CHaSS team members were able to answer the final question of “How many alumni does Utah State have?” correctly to secure their victory.
The colleges of Engineering, Education and Business were also represented with teams in the bowl.
Taylor Bybee, a junior majoring in electrical engineering, participated on the College of Engineering team for the second year in a row.
“I participated last year at the request of our engineering senator and we had a fun time, so I’m doing it again this year,” he said.
The bowl consists of questions from all of the colleges on campus as well as general questions about the university, Bybee said.
CHaSS Week activities continued with a comedy night Monday evening, featuring Logan Out Loud, a local improv group.
Paisley Hill, a junior majoring in law and constitutional studies and the Clubs and Organizations Director for CHaSS council, said the show was representative of the college.
“It kind of mixes with our college with philosophy, English and creative writing,” she said.
Trent Morrison, ASUSU CHaSS Senator, said the purpose of this year’s CHaSS week is to highlight the college as well as get students involved.
“Some of the stuff is more fun while some of it is more academic based, career based or alumni based,” he said.
Tuesday will feature a walk-in resume workshop sponsored by Career Services.
“Every student needs a good solid resume after graduation,” Hill said.
On Wednesday, Phebe Jensen, a professor in the English department will be the speaker for the annual Last Lecture talk in the Performance Hall, Morrison said.
Jensen’s talk will be on the work of Shakespeare and will place an emphasis on the importance of the arts and humanities in undergraduate education.
Morrison said the annual CHaSS Research Symposium was originally scheduled for Thursday but had to be canceled due to a lack of entries.
“It is an opportunity for students to get involved with presenting research,” he said. “Unfortunately, we just didn’t get the amount of abstracts we were looking for.”
Although the symposium has been cancelled for this year, Morrison said the new CHaSS Senator, Matthew Anderson, plans to make sure it happens next year.
Morrison said Friday will feature another fun event. The movie “Lincoln” will be shown in the TSC Auditorium.
“The timing was perfect,” he said. “It’s really applicable to the college. History, English, even some of my communications classes have been reading about Lincoln too.”
The Museum of Anthropology will be open on Saturday boasting an exhibit entitled “Folklore Fantasy,” Morrison said.
“It’s open every Saturday but we are helping to advertise for it this week,” he said.
The week will conclude with an alumni event for a select group of students invited by the department heads within the college, Morrison said.
“We will have about 30 students to about 10-ish alumni,” he said. “The alumni are like the board of trustees, so they are donating a lot to the college and they want to see the faces of the students.”
Morrison said he and the CHaSS council have been planning for this week since last semester.
“It’s fun to see everything starting to play out,” he said.
Morrison said he hopes the activities he and the CHaSS council have planned will make the students proud to be in the college.
“More than anything, I want them to have an opportunity to have fun or get some help on their resume or connect with alumni,” he said.
Hill said the activities are designed to get all of the departments involved.
“We are trying to not just cater to the English majors or political science,” she said. “We are trying to get it well-rounded with everyone involved and being aware of CHaSS week.”
– ashlyn.tucker@aggiemail.usu.edu