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Welcome Back Fest 2002
August 25, 2002 - Hill Business District The University Hill Neighborhood Association was pleased to be a part of this first annual fest designed to welcome students back to the Hill and to raise their awareness of the Hill businesses. It was also an opportunity for UHNA members to get together with students in a festive, daytime social setting to help raise their awareness of the diversity of residents in our neighborhood. Below are pictures of Boulder residents of all ages enjoying themselves at UHNA's craft table and "jumpy tent". UHNA volunteers staffed the table and also provided services as traffic marshals. Welcome Back Students. This was a great start to the year! |
Article from The Daily Camera
Street party ends vacation
Music, entertainment
welcome CU students back
By Eric
Schmidt, Camera Staff Writer
August 26, 2002
University Hill looked more like the Pearl Street Mall on Sunday afternoon, when police closed 13th Street between College and Pennsylvania avenues to make way for music and entertainment on the final day of the University of Colorado's summer break.
"Welcome Back Fest," organized by the Hill Alliance, a group of University Hill businesses and neighbors, drew hundreds of CU students. The event featured performances from seven bands and Boulder's RipStoke mountain bike stunt team.
CU's fall semester begins today for about 26,000 students, including a record-sized freshman class of 5,355.
"It's good to bring everybody back together to kick off the year," said Casey Dietz, a CU student who spent the summer at home in San Diego.
Live bands included Jeep, Pepper, The Menagerie and DeVotchka. CU a capella ensembles In the Buff and All Rights Reserved also performed.
Brad Shepard, a CU student from Alabama, said he came to see The Menagerie — his friend's band. He said it's good to be back in Boulder after being away for the summer.
"I'm stoked as hell," Shepard said. "I've never loved a town as much as here."
Boulder police Sgt. J.T. Toporek reported about 9:30 p.m. that it seemed to be a "typical Sunday night" in terms of police activity on the Hill.
A separate concert Saturday night at Farrand Field drew several hundred students and prompted noise complaints.
CU police Lt. Tim McGraw said the Saturday concert ended about 10:15 p.m. and was without incident other than the four to six noise complaints.
"We don't like to be in the situation where we're bothering people, but it certainly didn't turn into something that mirrors or resembles other events that have happened near campus recently, fortunately," McGraw said.
University Hill has been the site of eight disturbances in the past five years that brought riot police — most notably two nights of riots in the spring of 1997. The most recent riot occurred in December, after CU defeated Texas in the Big 12 football championship.
CU students, returning to the campus recently ranked the No. 8 "party school" by the Princeton Review, have been reminded by university officials through posters, e-mail bulletins and letters to parents this week that CU's "three-strikes" policy means three alcohol-related offenses or two drug-abuse offenses will lead to suspension or expulsion.
