Three Traditional Events Mark Start of School Year

Three popular traditional events mark the start of each school year at Canadian University College.  The first is the handshake held the first Saturday night of the school year.  This year's theme of "Mexican Fiesta" prompted many students to show up wearing sombreros, ponchos and moustaches.

Only at CUC might you find an extraordinarily bright and talented professor originally from Malaysia, now living in Canada, walking around wearing a very large sombrero.

For many years now the second Saturday night event of the school year has been Class Challenge emceed by Professor Ron Schafer.  Class groups from CUC and PAA compete in a wacky assortment of relay races and contests to accumulate the most points.

The third traditional event that marks the start of the new school year at CUC is our Week in Spiritual Emphasis, September 17-22.  The class schedule is adjusted to allow for a meeting every morning at 11 in the church and evening meetings at 8:30 in the Administration Building Chapel.  This year's speaker is Pastor Vandeon Griffin, Youth Director for the South Central Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.   His theme for the week is, The Fight of Your Life.