Cowell College - Cowell Programs

Cowell Programs

Cowell also features a wide variety of annual events and programs. For example, residential staff has in the past hosted a series of events each year known as the Cowell Olympics. Teams of students from the two quads, or each individual building are pitted against each other for prizes, their house name on an official Cowell Olympics plaque, and most recently, a banner to hang from the building's balcony.

Along with college wide events, the Resident Assistants in the living areas are required to run 6 house events for each building every quarter. These can range from movie showings to nature trips to discussions on current events.

Recently, Cowell's Student Senate has created a DVD Library program. Free to sign up for students living at Cowell, this program offers an ever growing number of DVDs for residents to check out for a week. In 2008, someone stole all the DVDs.

Cowell College also sponsors a UCSC a cappella group, Acquire. The group recently put on a large free show at Cowell called Acquirefest featuring all three on campus a cappella groups and some other guest groups. The event brought in over 400 people and has now become one of the school's largest music events of the year. Cowell and Acquire continue to work together to bring a cappella music to UCSC.