THE CAPTAINS’ WELCOME To the New Griffins of Stanford Hall, Gentlemen, welcome home! We are not only excited to welcome you to your new home for the next four years of your life but also ecstatic to congratulate you for being selected to be a part of the greatest Residence Hall at Notre Dame: Stanford Hall. While some of the other dorms on campus may say that the members of their halls were randomly selected, we know very well that only the best of the best, the crème de la crème if you will, are selected to join the noble ranks of Stanford Hall. We Griffins are known for our supreme athletic ability, rugged good looks, charming personalities, astute knowledge in the classroom, and of course for our exemplary gentlemanly behavior. Sound a bit like yourself? Yeah, we knew it. The Griffin tradition has been in place for 61 years, ever since our dorm took the campus by storm and made the other inferior dorms tremble at Stanford’s mighty construction of cinderblock and mortar. Over the years, our dorm has accumulated countless accolades and honors including winning the Interhall Cup, which is awarded for our unparalleled athletic dominance. (It’s sort of like the House Cup from Harry Potter but much cooler, and it’s no coincidence the Griffins resemble Gryffindor. We’re just that awesome.) Last year, the Griffins of Stanford Hall also decided to relinquish the Hall of the Year title so that some of the other men on campus enjoy the attention, but as fate may have it, students still flock to Stanford after seeing our tremendous humility. As all returning griffins know, every year needs to be a “#RecordYear” and we need the Stanford Class of 2022’s help to bring the crown back to its rightful owners. It doesn’t take long to figure out that Notre Dame is not an ordinary school and that our housing system is not a typical university housing system. The growth, friendships, challenges, accomplishments, and everything else you experience and partake of in Stanford Hall will ultimately help mold you into the very man you are going to be for the rest of your life. Stanford Hall is also the best residence hall for spiritual, personal, and academic advancement while here at school, and pretty soon your fellow Griffins will become your second family here at Notre Dame. There’s a lot to learn about Notre Dame and Stanford Hall, but hopefully this guide will help explain the schedule for Welcome Weekend, information about Stanford and its residents, and what you need to know before arriving at Notre Dame this August. Welcome Weekend will be activity filled, giving you the opportunity to bond with your fellow new Griffins as well as meet people from other dorms. Obviously, you will also move into your new room and become well acquainted with your modular furniture, but fear not! There will be burly upperclassmen to assist you in setting up your room. Remember to make the most of Welcome Weekend. Meet new people. Talk to upperclassmen. Ask questions. Go outside your comfort zone. Our dorm prides itself not only on being the best here at Notre Dame, but also on forging lifelong friendships, both with those in our dorm and with other Domers. Well, we’ve rambled on for long enough. We hope you’re getting as excited for move-in day as we are. Go Irish! Beat Wolverines! 2018 STANFORD HALL WELCOME WEEKEND GUIDE | 2 Your Welcome Weekend Captains, Mark Beach and Drew Lischke 2018 WELCOME WEEKEND OVERVIEW ​(NEEDS EDITS DUE TO LACK OF CONCISE SCHEDULE THUS FAR) Please note that all events are mandatory unless otherwise noted. This is a general outline of the weekend and ​changes may occur​. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18 Move-in Stanford Hall Programming 9:00am – 1:00pm 7:00pm – 10:00pm Welcome Weekend staff will assist freshmen and their families Meet out in front of Stanford and get ready for a great night. move their property into Stanford and help arrange rooms. DOMERFEST 2018 Campus Card Office - ID Card Production 10:30pm – 1:00am 9:00am – 4:30pm The signature Welcome Weekend dance takes place in front of Head on over to ​Hesburgh Library​ to get your Student ID Card Rolf’s Sports and Recreation Center made. Official University Welcome SUNDAY, AUGUST 21 5:00pm – 6:00pm Dining Hall Brunch Purcell Pavilion, Joyce Center 9:00am – 1:30pm North and South Dining Halls Welcome Cookout 6:30pm – 8:30pm Class of 2020 Welcome Mass Head to ​South Quad​ for great food and great times. 10:00am – 12:00pm Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center (JACC)​. Welcome Home Event with Rector and Hall Staff 8:30pm – 12:00pm Afternoon Activities Get to meet your Hall Staff and Rector-. 1:30pm – 6:00pm Explore campus and participate in a host of optional activities, ATURDAY UGUST S , A 20 including a Farmers’ Market on ​North Quad​, a performance of Dining Hall Breakfast Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” at ​DPAC​, and a Woman’s 8:30am – 9:30am Soccer Game at ​Alumni Stadium​, or get some shopping done! North and South Dining Halls Dining Hall Dinner (North Quad Cookout!?) FYE (First Year Experience) Plenary Kick-Off 6:00pm – 7:00pm 10:00am – 11:30am Students will have the chance to attend dinner with girls from Purcell Pavillion, Joyce Center Farley at ​North Dining Hall. FYE Course Session #1 and Lunch Stanford Hall Programming 11:30am – 12:30pm 7:00pm – 10:00pm Campus Classrooms The final evening of Welcome Weekend will include activities coordinated with other dorms. Rector and Hall Staff Welcome for Parents 1:30pm – 3:30pm First Class Trip to the Grotto Holy Cross Chapel 10:30pm – 12:00pm Perhaps the most special part of Welcome Weekend, don’t miss FY Advisor Sessions it. Also, join your brethren Griffins in the ​Stanford Basement 4:00pm – 5:00pm afterwards for the first card night of the year. Location provided by advisor MONDAY, AUGUST 22 Dining Hall Dinner (North Quad Cookout!?) Schedule Adjustments 5:00pm – 7:00pm 8:30am – 5:00pm North and South Dining Halls First Year of Studies 2018 STANFORD HALL WELCOME WEEKEND GUIDE | 3 Day of Community 10:00am, 12:30pm. 3:30pm Depart from ​Stepan Center​ to embark on a trip to a location in South Bend to learn about the community you are now a part of. WELCOME WEEKEND CAPTAIN BIOS Drew “Anderson” Lischke Drew, one of our Welcome Weekend Captains this fall, is proud to be Stanford Hall’s pillar of Catholic and conservative values. In the first floor six man, Drew’s home for both sophomore and junior year, his “Saturdays are for the Mark “at the” Beach Boys” flag flies proudly. Coming from Wake Forest Realizing his interest in “great books” only intimidates University, wait no, Winston Salem, wait no, Kernersville, business majors rather than the violent teen gangs in his North Carolina, this Golden-Domed griffin is sure to make hometown of Salinas, California and that his lettuce-farming your Welcome Weekend feel just like summer camp. When background cultivated him into a pseudo-Midwesterner, Mark he’s not in his room reading sociological theory and predicting fled the golden California sun for the Golden Dome. True to the downfall of capitalist America, you can find him his West Coast roots, Mark_At_The_Beach is one of the most mysteriously whispering to himself in Arabic in room 237. Or, laidback, friendly and welcoming Domers roaming campus you can find him in the Stanford basement riding hundreds of even though his nickname would often be more accurate if it miles on the stationary bike, sculpting his biceps like the ended “At_Club_Hes.” If you’re lucky enough to get booked Norse god Thor, and jamming out to his favorite song: “Sweet into his jam-packed iCalendar, you’ll get to know a guy Carolyn.” Over the years, Drew has procured a multitude of passionate about a variety of topics ranging from on-campus nicknames: Drew Drew on that Beat, the Big DL, Triple V, eateries, lacrosse, California produce and international social Anderson, Egg Roll, XXXattención, and most notably, “that service projects. Assuming he survives his ISSLP in Tanzania guy in my philo class that won’t shut up.” In fact, Drew may this summer, he’ll surely allocate time to sit you down on the have secured for himself the title of: “loudest man on futon and tell you about his most recent experience. As campus.” More times than we can count, we’ve heard him Stanford Hall’s resident CrossFit champ, he obviously plans inadvertently announce to the entirety of north quad, that “that time for shirtless workouts in the Stanford gym and late-night is the cutest puppy I’ve ever seen!!!!” It’s easy to see, Drew is jogs through greater South Bend. Whether or not he’s anything but shy. If you ever have any extra attention to give, cranking out muscle-ups or randomly jumping over chairs as Drew would scoop it up like hummus in a vegan tortilla chip. part of some new CrossFit circuit, he’s at least obnoxiously Drew is also a very talented artist, with his work on display in representing a CrossFit brand to remind you that he, in fact, the first floor 6, although he must be in a particular state of does lift. He shows off these gains on the Stanford Interhall mind in order to create such masterpieces and refuses to lacrosse and football squads though his on-field dominance is sacrifice his creativity for social convention (as seen in his use often overshadowed by his post-championship celebrations.