Dean takes the plunge \u2014 10 times<\/div><\/div>\n
At Party on the Plaza, the college\u2019s annual welcome back event for students, Peters got dunked into a 500-gallon tub full of water 10 times.<\/p>\n
At the party, students mingled and enjoyed free food and music. A dunking contest included a grand prize to the student organization that dunked the most people. A student organization got one point per dunk, but two points for dunking the dean.<\/p>\n
Tau Beta Pi, an engineering honors society, won, scoring a pizza party with 10 pizzas of their choice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese kinds of activities show new students that administrators are willing to connect with their students directly,\u201d said senior computer science major Mitchell Kossoris, \u201ceven if that means getting a little wet while doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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