Say goodbye to the floods of daily emails that come from the Student Activities Center (SAC) reminding you of club events, meetings, and other activities. With the introduction of BoarCast, students will receive only two of those emails a week, on Monday and Thursday, with information presented in a compressed, more organized fashion. The BoarCast email will efficiently compile all of the week’s events, along with special schedules and other important announcements.
Ms. Alex Long, the Assistant Director of Student Activities, believes BoarCast will relieve stress from both the SAC and the students. She said, “Everybody is so busy, so if you wanted to see what was going on, all you have to do is search ‘BoarCast’ in your email to find the announcements in one place.” Ms. Long mentioned that BoarCast will also feature an emoji button on the Thursday email to differentiate new announcements from the ones already included in the Monday email. This feature will make BoarCast even more helpful to those on campus wishing to see the week’s new upcoming events.
The process of student’s submitting their announcements to appear on BoarCast is simple but could take some getting used to. Currently, students send their announcements to Mr. Jim Yanelli, the Director of Student Activities, and he requests that it to be sent to the student body at a certain time. With the new system, students will post their announcement on a link from the Student Activities portal on the school website, which will be followed by an approval or editing by Ms. Long.
Another option students have is to email their announcement to the SAC office before the deadlines of 8:00 p.m. on Sunday and 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday. “If you don’t send it to us in the time frame, it’s not going to be on BoarCast, and we are not going to send out an all-school email. Obviously, we’ll give a little leeway in the first couple of weeks as we get used to it, but by next fall and next winter, you either hit the deadline or you don’t,” said Ms. Long.
“I’m just really excited for the opportunity to be able to send the students information once,: said Ms. Long. “It looks really cool, and I hope that the students like it.”
