Looking for a chance to meet new people or try something new? Whether you want a way to cut loose, help build the community or build your résumé, Milligan campus clubs offer solutions. Here are two new clubs that are offered this semester.
ENACTUS, Entrepreneurial Action Us, began to emerge last semester but will get in full swing this fall. The idea came after Kristal Dove, instructor of business administration, heard about the organization that spans 36 countries and has over 1,700 university programs.
ENACTUS plans to meet every other Tuesday beginning Sept. 12 in SUB 7 or SGA Conference Room at 7 p.m., but this is subject to change. For more information about ENACTUS you can contact Kristal Dove at KDove@milligan.edu.
“The goal is to work within the local community to come up with a project that addresses a need and then put that project into action,” Dove said.
The club will do this by creating and building relationships with local leaders. All projects that ENACTUS pursues will be economically, socially and environmentally sustainable as well as empower the community and positively affect all who are involved.
“Milligan is grounded in the foundation of scholarship, community and faith. For me ENACTUS is a beautiful manifestation of that foundation,” Dove said. “It provides students with the opportunity to take what they are learning in the classroom and apply it within the context of community for the betterment of community, all the while living out what it means to practice their faith in a loving God who has called us to servant leadership.”
The Contra Club is also new this year and will have many students ready to “cut a rug.” Contra dance is folk dancing, where a caller instructs participants when and how to move to a live band. Contra Club founder Mikaela Way explains how the idea for the club came after students began participating in nearby dance events and thought of how great it would be if they could contra dance on campus.
Beginner classes will be offered to acquaint newcomers to the steps and lingo the caller uses, and dances will regularly be hosted on campus. The club will also carpool to the Jonesborough Visitors Center where the Jonesborough Historic Dance Society hosts dances.
There is not a dress code, but, “I recommend always wearing light, airy clothes that won’t hold in heat,” Way explained. Participants should also wear shoes that can slide but also have traction.
The Contra Club plans to meet every first and third Saturday of the month. Way wants interested students to “recognize they won’t be professional dancers the first time around, and everyone is okay with that!”
This year also welcomes the start of the Social Work Club, International Club and reboot of Buffalo Ramblers.