Students can expect ice skating, snowboarding, and hookah smoking
Jacqueline Perlin
Assistant News Editor
@jackieperlin
York can’t be satisfied with just one welcome week.
This year the York Federation of Students (YFS) is heading a “Frost Week” from January 9 to January 13, a second welcome week for students beginning the winter semester.
The YFS undertook an initiative in the first semester to create a week of various free-of-charge events intended to provide students with something different
to do every day.
“Wednesday is the biggest day of all,” says Monirul Pathan, vp campus life of the YFS.
There will be a skating rink set up in the Harry W. Arthur Commons outside Vari Hall which will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will include free skate rentals.
Alongside the ice rink there will be a heated “Sultan’s Tent” outside providing hot chocolate, tea, coffee, and hookah for students’ smoking enjoyment.
The day will also include a chance for students to show off their snowboarding skills.
“This is pretty cool, [because] there will be a truck that will winch snowboarders onto a rail,” says Pathan. He says that snow will be brought in and there will be a rail set up where the most courageous will be able to perform various tricks.
The fun will also continue into the next few days.
“Thursday will have a very similar set up, with the exception that there will be a hockey challenge where students will be able to compete to win the Red Bull ‘Top Shelf’ challenge,” says Pathan. Winners, he says, will receive an undisclosed prize from Red Bull.
Pathan adds that Thursday evening, Dr. Draw, an electric violinist, will be brought in to perform for students at a charge of five dollars for York students.
“It’s in The Underground where students will be able to come, hang out, and have entertainment there as well.”
Frost Week will end off with a Laser Quest event on Friday, where approximately 60 students will be bussed to Richmond Hill for a night of tagging fun.
