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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b50fd34-68ab-c60b-9115-3bb712c2ecb4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spreading love, care, and friendship among students.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b50fd34-68ab-c60b-9115-3bb712c2ecb4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Making students, especially the freshmen and transfer students, feel welcomed.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b50fd34-68ab-c60b-9115-3bb712c2ecb4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Building local and community awareness of UIF through personal marketing and potential media coverage surrounding the event.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b50fd34-68ab-c60b-9115-3bb712c2ecb4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interviewing students and asking them about their lives, and their stories; what they are going through, what they are excited about for the upcoming semester, etc.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b50fd34-68ab-c60b-9115-3bb712c2ecb4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learning about opportunities for improvement at your university, for example course signup, information services, workload, etc.</span></span></li>

<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b50fd34-68ab-c60b-9115-3bb712c2ecb4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure of the event:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During City College of New York’s Welcome Back event, in front of the university’s main building, Mahmoud and several volunteers held “Free Hug” signs and wore beaming smiles as a way to brighten their fellow student's days.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b50fd34-68ab-c60b-9115-3bb712c2ecb4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mahmoud positioned himself on campus near where the welcome event was happening for his College. Can be done anywhere on campus, from one location or multiple depending on the amount of so-called ‘huggers’.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b50fd34-68ab-c60b-9115-3bb712c2ecb4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For Mahmoud and team the cost was nominal, just the cost of purchasing two posters. &nbsp;Mahmoud stressed that this event could be held for free. If you wanted something like t-shirts, you would need to pay attention to the jump in cost.</span></span></li>