San Jose State students enjoyed a game of cornhole while sipping on boba tea outside of the Associated Students House.
At Spartans Get Active, SJSU’s Associated Students hosted an event to promote being physically active while making friends on campus.
Communications senior Kevin Li, event coordinator for Associated Students and president of Spartan Fitness, said the idea for Spartans Get Active was for students to be more active by socializing while playing outdoor games.
“[Students] could just be doing a common game together and they might form friendships through that,” he said.
Li said this event was a good opportunity for students to be more physically active while connecting with friends and meeting new people while playing outdoor games.
“I just want to make sure this [event] was brought up to students just to give them a little bit of time to relax before finals start,” he said.
Li said to help support the idea of being active, he invited his friends from Spartan Fitness to table at the event.
Spartan Fitness is a club where students, who are interested in fitness, can learn and workout together, according to its club details in the Sammy App.
Jeremy Buban, mechatronics engineering junior and officer in charge of fundraising at Spartan Fitness, said students can do many activities outside of the house.
Buban said students can play cornhole, play a giant, non-alcoholic version of beer pong with a basketball and try out a fitness challenge the club set up at its table.
“So we have a wheel over here, where you spin it, and then it'll land on an exercise that you'll do,” Buban said. “Then one of our officers will also do it with you.” Students were rewarded with candy for completing the fitness challenge.
He said the Spartan Fitness club members brought different kinds of exercising equipment for students to use in their fitness game, including boxing gloves, gymnastic rings and a pair of parallettes.
Buban said many who use parallettes use it during bodyweight exercises.
“Instead of, like, specifically being a powerlifting club, we go through all levels of fitness,” he said. “So you'll see us do some boxing along with powerlifting along with even the Olympic lifting some of us have done. So any walk of fitness that you're from, you know, we accept you into the club.”
Buban said Spartan Fitness wants to have members from different backgrounds of fitness so anyone could join and get advice on different fitness activities.
Li said students were also allowed to enter the Associated Student House to pick up a free cup of boba tea and a free sandwich for the event.
“I know students love getting some of those so we have those free goodies there and some SJSU swag,” he said. “[It's] also a good opportunity for a lot of the students to check out the [Associated Students] House as well.”
The Associated Student House, once known as the Scheller House, is a California Colonial Revival Mansion built in 1904, according to Associated Student’s website.
Li said passing out food and drinks in the house gives students an opportunity to look through the inside of the house.
He said one of the reasons why the event was hosted at the Associated Students House is because it was a great opportunity to help students feel more familiar with their headquarters.
“This is where we work, and this is where we plan and come up with a lot of our events,” he said. “So I feel like this is a good opportunity for students to come out here and know a little bit more about what [Associated Students members] do.”
Carmen Patiño, Associated Students event coordinator and supervisor, said she wanted to highlight that Li was the one who was responsible for making the event happen. “As a supervisor, I really aim to help my students take real ownership of their own events,” she said.
