Hillel’s new Campus Entrepreneurs Initiative includes UCSD among its seven campuses, and I chatted with some of our school’s CEI interns recently.
Arya Marvazy told me that the the group’s aim is to “reach out to uninvolved Jews on campus” and get them more involved in the Hillel community. Another intern explained that Hillel is often considered to be only about Shabbat nights, which the program hopes to change.
The interns said that since they all represent different backgrounds of various Jewish sectors on campus, so that they all reach out to different kinds of people in Jewish campus life.
Among the interns, 2 studied abroad in Israel, most are sophomores, 5 are Juniors, and one or two of them are seniors. They recently went to Georgia for a training session, which one of them said united them “as Jews.”
The interns are involved in a range of Jewish groups, like sororities, fraternities, Pep Band, Ultimate Frisbee, Comedy Improv (Foosh), Art and Power.
This coming Saturday at 8 PM at RIMAC there will be a Havdalah and glow-in-the-dark Capture the Flag organized by intern Stephen Hubbard.