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- Club Carnival: Club Carnival occurs during every Welcome Week for the new students on campus, featuring a good portion of the 320 clubs at UCI selling off internationally-themed foods, holding contests and games, and handing out welcome prizes.
- Comedy Night: Bring on the laughter and bring on the tears as ASUCI hosts the annual Comedy Night to usher light-hearted incoming freshmen into UCI, letting them settle themselves down from the stress of Orientation Week.
- Earth Day: Totally run by solar power, UCI’s annual celebration for Mother Earth includes over 30 participating agencies all actively trying to share in the importance of environmental awareness. With over 20,000 visitors each year, UCI pulls out all the energy efficient stops to host a medley of interactive, educational, and fun games and booths for all.
- Foam Party: Held every year to “foamally” baptize first-years into the UCI community, this has become a popular social event for both older and newer classes. Second-years and up get a chance to wreak havoc on naïve newbies, while also coming prepared in bathing suits the second time around.
- Greek Songfest: The Greeks’ biggest event of the year, in which all the frats and sororities showcase their singing, acting, and set-designing talents in a series of grape-dangling performances in their combined efforts to raise funds for a chosen beneficiary.
- Mardi Gras: Thrown by ASUCI, this is one the campus’s highlighted galas of gorging and trouncing along the paths of Ring Road. Following in the tradition of the original Mardi Gras, students party until midnight, eating, tossing balls for prizes, listening to concerts, and decorating festive masks.
- Wayzgoose Festival: Starting since 1972, and qualifying as UCI’s oldest tradition, Wayzgoose is a medieval themed carnival of jousting, fun, food, among friendly faculty, student, and club organizations. On top of that, there’s the annual host of stages scheduled with a menagerie of inflatable carnival rides (including pony rides), snake handling, and a wild animal show (frat boys need not apply).
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