Welcome Week 2016 - UC Irvine

UCI opens its classrooms to the largest-ever incoming class of freshmen, transfer students. Here's a look at the festivities during Welcome Week.

Video by Steve Chang, UCI Communications.

[JulieHerrick]

I'm here in May 2020 feeling a little sad as I realize that this 2016 welcome week was for the class that is now about to graduate online from home.
And it makes me wonder what kind of welcome week experience will be available to the next freshman class.

[israelcastelan]

damn i’m not even going to uci, but this has me excited lmao

[hoonurkaur]

I’m gonna jinx myself and end up not getting in. I’ve been watching wayyyy too many uci videos

[yonvaiye]

We didn't even break the record smh

[sprogo]

For four straight days this past May, a group of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers called “Reservists On Duty” harassed UCI students who were displaying a Mock Wall to educate their campus about Israel’s concerted violations of international law and Palestinian human rights. The soldiers surveilled, disrupted, and physically assaulted Palestinian students, along with their Latinx, Black, Native and Jewish allies. This occurred in full view of UCI administrators, who refused to intervene.

“Rather than protect us from harassment by foreign military agents, UCI is investigating students for ‘disruption’ because of chanting in reaction to a physical assault on the students during the Q&A session of an event with the soldiers. This just blames the victim and abandons vulnerable students, many of whom have experienced discrimination and brutality at the hands of the same military, ” explained Forest Agostinelli, a student who participated in the events. “The administration failed the students at every turn.”