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[[File:Frosh Week 2007.jpg|thumb|right|300px|F!rosh class of 1T1, at the downtown walkaround, September 2007.]] | |||
'''F!rosh Week''' (''Orientation Week'') is a week-long series of events organized by the University of Toronto Engineering Society's orientation committee to welcome first year students entering the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. It includes numerous activities designed to bring students together in a fun environment and learn about the campus and classes prior to the official start of the academic year. It generally takes place in the first full week of September each year and is highlighted by activities such as the Downtown Walkaround. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
Since time immemorial, students have always sought a way to make new students "official" members of [[Skule]]™. It was in that spirit that the original F!rosh Weeks were carried out. Mostly the responsibility of the second years, those events typically involved a simple afternoon of hazing, followed by a large F!rosh-Soph banquet to show that there were no hard feelings. These orientations tended to involve whatever physical abuses or humiliations the second years could think of, but this was all quite acceptable at the time. In those days, there was a strong sense of camaraderie among the engineers that diminished significantly during the '60's and '70's, but is now again on the rise. In fact, Dean [[C.H. Mitchell]], who became dean in 1919, insisted that he too was a "freshman" and decided to endure the same initiation as the other F!rosh. | Since time immemorial, students have always sought a way to make new students "official" members of [[Skule]]™. It was in that spirit that the original F!rosh Weeks were carried out. Mostly the responsibility of the second years, those events typically involved a simple afternoon of hazing, followed by a large F!rosh-Soph banquet to show that there were no hard feelings. These orientations tended to involve whatever physical abuses or humiliations the second years could think of, but this was all quite acceptable at the time. In those days, there was a strong sense of camaraderie among the engineers that diminished significantly during the '60's and '70's, but is now again on the rise. In fact, Dean [[C.H. Mitchell]], who became dean in 1919, insisted that he too was a "freshman" and decided to endure the same initiation as the other F!rosh. | ||