Republic Week opens with 1,100 first-year students

Republic Week opened on Monday at the University gymnasium, with first-year students from all twelve Local Government Units taking their seats before eight in the morning.

The week was built around one question the Executive kept hearing from freshmen: what does the Student Republic actually do? Each day answered part of it — the units set out their own tables on Tuesday, the Congress held a mock session on Wednesday, and the services fair on Thursday put the concern desk, the blue book drive and the tutorial programme in one room.

By Friday, 1,142 first-year students had signed in at least once. The Office of the President has asked each unit to keep the contact lists gathered during the week, so that next year's welcome can begin before classes do.