FTC Fall Club Fair offers leadership, community and fun for all creative students

By Isabella Escobar

Five Towns College set the stage for student involvement at the Fall Club Fair on September 26th.  Music added to the lively mood with a special Live at the Upbeat Faculty showcase. Students delighted in ice cream and each club’s table offered a different sweet topping to encourage students to browse around. 

Take a peek:

 

Assistant Dean of Campus Life, Michael Cavalli, emphasized the importance of student involvement. “The importance of the club fair is to really encourage students to maximize and get the most of their college experience. Only about 15% of your time in college is spent in the classroom and the other 85% of the time is the opportunity to engage and be a citizen who contributes to positive change at Five Towns College. Our clubs and organizations and support services departments, that are represented today provide all sorts of opportunities for student involvement.” 

 

ICYMI, here’s some info on the clubs in attendance: 

Campus Activities Board [CAB]- Driving FTC Spirit 

Rep: Egypt Dozier, President 

Meetings take place with members throughout the semester. 

“We run all the events thrown on campus, for the students!  We keep all our events geared toward our students and our diversity, that’s our main goal. We like to have a lot of fun and keep the spirits up. We also throw the biggest parties, sometimes we’ll even cater food. We’re just keeping the spirit of the school.”  

 

FTC Sound Waves- Calling all Dancers!  

Rep: Jo Miletti 

The club meets on Wednesdays from 7-9AM. However, meetings are subject to change to accommodate for newcomers’ scheduling. Open to all who have a passion for dance. 

“We want to foster a fun and exciting environment for people to express themselves through dance and have a different outlet creatively for people to enjoy themselves. We really are very tight knit and very close with each other, which is really nice to have that on campus.” 

 

Music Video Club- Go Behind the Music

Rep: Lauren Marino 

The Music Video Club meets on Thursdays during Common Hour. Additional meetings may occur based on projects.

“We make music videos; we take all the majors from this school, and we try to bring them together and form music videos. It’s like getting behind the scenes of a music video. We take each other’s ideas, and we build upon them, no idea is a bad idea! We can take original or cover music.”  

 

FTC Sound Stream – The Sound of Five Towns College 

Rep: Professor Jodi Vale-Amato, Sound Stream Co-Manager

FTC Sound Stream shows broadcast throughout the week.

“People in Mass Comm, people in Theater, people in music, audio, everyone comes in. Some people have their shows, some people are interested in production, and some are interested in learning how to be a broadcaster and that’s what we’re here for. If you’re interested, check out Andre [Doughty] or me and we’ll be at the FTC Sound Stream, we’d love to talk to you!” 

 

FTC Offbeats- Sing your hearts out in this A Cappella Club!  

Rep: Victoria Gonzalez  

The club meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:15 to 3:15PM.  Open to all singing levels. 

“Our objective is to share music with other students and allow them to learn how to sing and form A Cappella music. We perform at the end of the year at the Voices of FTC concert (December 4th at 7:30PM in the PAC).” 

 

The Rainbow Room- Express Yourself

Rep: Maeve King, Vice President 

The club meets on Thursdays from 12N to 1:30PM. 

“We are the LGBTQ Club. We aim to create a safe space for LGBTQ people and educate them on LGBTQ issues and other surroundings topics.” 

 

Esports- Game On!  

Rep: Evan Leider, Head Coach 

Program meets multiple times during the week depending on the game title.  Interested students should be attentive to their FTC email for more information. 

“We compete against other colleges in the ECAC [Eastern College Athletics Conference]. We play multiple game titles against other colleges. We love to gauge interest in esports and build friendships, strong bonds and have a great time and always work to improve.”  

 

FTC Business Club- Get Down to Business

Rep: Sydney Festa  

The Business Club meets every Thursday from 1 to 1:55PM in Room 101.  Be on the lookout for information for the Women in Entertainment panel, Artist Being Artists and the MEIS Conference. 

“The objective of the club is to basically cater to all majors, have everyone have a sense of purpose. I think business is a big part of every single industry, ideally, every career. So, it gives you a sense of what to expect in the real world, starting a business, working for a business of any sort, as well as hosting all sorts of events.”  

Sports Broadcasting Club- Live broadcasting on a larger scale. 

Rep: Sydney Mountain, Treasurer 

The club meets on Tuesdays or Thursdays during Common Hour depending on the game schedules. 

“We do student productions and live stream of every home basketball game here. It allows them to get involved in a work environment that they would see outside of school. We have students do directing, technical directing, graphics. We run replay, we have on-air commentating, camera operators, sideline reporting. So really anything anybody wants to get to in the world of broadcasting, they can get first world experience in our club.” 

 

Media Arts Club- *New Club Alert

Rep: Caleigh Rodriguez

Interested students to join their club officers and urge students who are interested to check their emails for more information. 

 “The main objective of the club is to unite different majors of the school and meet new people, collab together and make something we all enjoy.”  

 

Audio Club – Hear the Sound

Rep: Jake Sausa 

Audio Club meets Tuesdays and Thursdays during Common Hour in one of the three studios on campus. 

“It’s a way for everyone that has a question, an interest, something you wants to discuss with fellow audio peers. This is a way to meet those people that may have your answer or may have the same question as you or a similar interest that you may. It’s really taking that hands-on experience that you strive for in the classroom, giving you the opportunity to apply your skills and knowledge outside of the classroom.”  

 

Volleyball Club – Indoor Sports and Fun 

Rep: Joey Toscano  

Interested members will receive an email with further meeting/game information. 

“Right now, we’re trying to start up a volleyball team for the school. There was an effort to put together a team a couple of years ago, but it fell through. Now we’re trying to revamp it and get it going for the Spring semester.” 

 

 Club Follow Up

While the Fall 2024 Club Fair has concluded, interested students are encouraged to reach out to the Club Reps for more information and check their email for updates. The FTC Record team will also cover club happenings throughout the school year.