The Selwyn Experience Takes Shape

Selwyn College is off to a promising start. Our senior returning students have done a great job welcoming in and helping settle our new residents, and the O Week activities organised and lead by the Committee have introduced them to some of the more traditional and unique aspects of the Selwyn Experience.

The Leith Run and Orientation Ball were, as usual, the highlights of the week.

The momentum of the year has picked up with the commencement of lectures and the college-based tutorials that complement them. Any spare time that residents have is taken up with practice for the Selwyn Waiata and Haka, and, for the boys, the famous Selwyn Ballet.

Chess, the first of the cultural contests with Knox College for the Neville Cup, has been won by Selwyn. It was heartening to see the vibrant college spirit reflected in the good turnout of Selwyn supporters. We cherish our relationship with Knox College and despite our fierce competition with them regard them as worthy and amiable opponents. Our next encounter will be the cricket match against them on Sunday 20th March.

We're already looking forward to the Selwyn vs Knox rugby match which will be played as a curtain-raiser at the Stadium on Friday 13th May, and as that date coincides with our hosting of the Cultural Exchange with College House, it should be a bumper weekend.

Selwyn College looks after its own, and it really is a privilege to witness this tightknit community coming together to help shape the Selwyn Experience for 2016. 

By Warden | Posted: Monday March 14, 2016