Less than a month after the start of the spring semester, Peking University’s Shanying Club put up a “Store Out” notice: “No matter whether you have played outdoors or not, or how your body is, as long as you have a heart longing for the mountains, Shanying will always welcome you. Join!"
And this is just a microcosm of recruitment for college clubs.
If we talk about college clubs today, club activities such as dinner parties, reading clubs, and outdoor cycling may be labeled as "basic". Taking advantage of the dark night to look for stars, gathering a group of people to play Frisbee, and "marching" into the mountains and other novelties The activities are more written on recruitment posters.
Walking through the "Mountain of Books and Sea of Inscriptions", can you find "Poetry and Distance" on campus?
Recently, the author visited some team members who were rated as the "Students' Favorite Club" in Capital Universities in 2023 to explore the most popular passwords of the club. A common feature is that students in the club feel that they have gone from "getting started" to "fascinated" "the power of.
Get started and find a common sense of accomplishment
Pan Haoran, chairman of Peking University's Shanying Club, had the deepest feeling about a climb. In the winter of 2021, when a team member almost slipped while climbing in the suburbs of Beijing, another team member went directly up to protect her.
“I am very touched by this spirit of mutual help.”
This year is Pan Haoran’s sixth year joining Shanying Club, and it is also the 34th year since Shanying Club was established.
She said that when she was an undergraduate, she majored in Medical English at the Peking University School of Medicine and joined the Shanying Club. She was more concerned about exercising and improving her physical fitness by participating in club activities.
Now, under the influence of the club, she has chosen to pursue a master's degree in sports and has included outdoor sports in her research direction.
"Shanying Club is a pillar for me." In Pan Haoran's eyes, the circle of friends established through the club is very cohesive and dynamic, and he can find a "little family" in the university.
Compared with the Peking University Shanying Club, the Renmin University of China Hockey Association was established later.
In 2019, in order to participate in the first National College Ice Hockey Championship, the National People's Congress established an ice hockey team.
Two years later, this young team has received an invitation from the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee and entered a professional Winter Olympics ice hockey venue to participate in test matches.
"In three years, dozens of players have gone from 'stumbling' to 'having a degree of offense and defense.' This group of young people who initially only regarded ice hockey as a hobby, none of them will stop playing ice hockey." This is a micro-movie by the National People's Congress Hockey Association ’s narration is also the motivation for the players to join the ice hockey team.
Xu Yichen, the leader of the club, pointed out that when everyone encounters pressure and difficulties in study and life, they can turn to the ice hockey rink, gain a sense of accomplishment in the process of playing, and use another dimension to evaluate and motivate themselves.
Create a practical platform for students and provide youth wisdom to society
In response to the call of the National College Student Volunteer Service Plan for the West, the Minzu University of China established the West Practice Society to provide students with the opportunity to "go to the West, to the places where the motherland needs it most", give full play to the expertise of college students in basic education, and carry out Teaching activities during winter and summer vacations.
Kang Yitang, the head of the association, said that the volunteer education covers 22 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) including Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Henan, Hubei, and Hunan.
The Ice Hockey Association of Renmin University of China seized the opportunity of the Winter Olympics to make suggestions as athletes and provide practical suggestions to the organizing committee.
"Not only that, after the volunteers in the club returned to school, they popularized knowledge about the Winter Olympics and shared volunteer service testimonials with the students in the club." Xu Yichen mentioned that not only did they pass personal tests, they also prepared for the Winter Olympics Provide guarantee for the smooth progress of the ice sports, and also carry out a "novice training camp" for novices, making unremitting efforts to promote ice sports on campus.
Based on the characteristics of Frisbee sports, which are "suitable for all ages, low venue requirements, no physical collisions, and no fierce competition," the Frisbee Club of Beijing Sport University organized club members to carry out summer social practice activities in Xi'ao Town to help children understand Frisbee sports and learn Scientific exercise methods enrich their daily lives.
Through the campus charity marketing competition sponsored by the association, the University of Science and Technology Beijing Management Association attracted nearly 250 teams and 3,000 teachers and students to participate in poverty alleviation activities, creating a path of "combination of poverty alleviation and entrepreneurship, and the cooperation of teachers and students" path, with cumulative sales reaching 1.1 million yuan, which undoubtedly fully demonstrates to us the unlimited potential and vitality of youth, as well as the "same frequency resonance" between youth and society.
"I think societies like ours are lubricants and bridges, allowing the excitement of the outside world to enter the school and allowing school students to contribute to the outside world." Zhong Zihao, head of the Management Association of the University of Science and Technology Beijing, summed it up this way.
When clubs become "auxiliary wheels" for growth, students and clubs "go in both directions"
Should college societies remain "enclosed and self-advocate", or should they go out?
The answer given by BeiDou Star Patrol Society of Beihang University with more than 20 years of experience is to go out.
Zhang Yan, the person in charge of the Beidou Star Survey, remembers that the academic atmosphere was relatively strong when the association was first established, and the association often held various astronomical knowledge quizzes and other competitions.
In recent years, "science popularization" has become a keyword for the development of the community. By publishing popular science tweets and making bookmarks, canvas bags, keychains with astronomical knowledge, etc., the seemingly difficult astronomical knowledge has become popular.
The Western Practice Club of Minzu University of China is going further with both feet.
In the school, some ethnic minority students from Tibet expressed the hope that the volunteer teaching activities could also benefit children in their hometowns so that they could get better educational opportunities.
“Every time the former president was recruiting new people or doing other activities, she would print out the photo of her last teaching trip to Tibet, which she was not able to participate in, and post it on our booth. This was her unfulfilled wish. "
At the Beidou Star Patrol Station, there is an 8-inch Newtonian reflector tube. It was originally a telescope in the warehouse of the Xueyuan Road campus and has been sitting in the corner "collecting dust".
In 2017, a senior student took it upon himself to replace the main lens of the lens tube. After many improvements and adjustments, he finally turned the old lens tube into a commonly used equipment in the club.
In Zhang Yan’s view, this is the original intention and reform of the association.
"When we first started learning to ride bicycles when we were children, we would install two training wheels. The club is our training wheels and the source of our ability improvement. It prevents us from getting injured and walks more steadily. When we ride more and more As it gets faster and better, we will slowly take it off, but whenever we ride the bicycle again, we will always remember those two training wheels. Its spirit will always remain," said Zhong Zihao.
Song Yufei, Liu Ruochen, Zhang Zijing, Chen Yi, Zhu Sidi, China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporter Yin Xining Source: China Youth Daily