By Ashley Springer
There were 288 different vendors compared to last year's count of 240 on Wednesday during Utah State University's annual Day on the Quad — an event taking place during Week of Welcome which gives clubs and businesses the opportunity to showcase themselves to students in order to get new members and customers.
Jessica Bishop, a USU adviser in charge of Day on the Quad, reached out to local businesses in Logan to rent tables for vendors to use.
According to Bishop, in the past organizers only used 240 tables from facilities at the university. With the 48 additional tables the event organizers rented this year, they were able to bring in 48 new vendors giving students even more opportunities to become involved.
The increase in vendors was also due to the partnering of Day on the Quad organizers with the university’s student newspaper The Utah Statesmen. Bishop said The Statesmen printed a map of the vendors' locations as well as offered ad space to the off-campus vendors to use.
Students also recognized the increase in vendors.
Senior Misty Fitzgerald, a representative of the USU Dancers Club, said there are a lot more vendors and different options for students to join.
“They brought a bunch of different people up… from all over versus just on campus,” said Talysa Brimley of the Student Alumni Association.
Even with the elimination of common hour — a time in the middle of the day in which no classes would be scheduled — the quad stayed consistently busy. Vendors told Bishop they never had down time and some even had to return to their business to pick up more of the free things they were giving out to the students.
Freshmen USU students Bailee Facemyer and Mallory Bangerter came to the quad because a class required them to and they wanted to try getting involved on campus through clubs and organizations. By the end of their tour, Facemyer and Bangerter both walked away with specific clubs or organizations they wanted to be a part of and plenty of free goods.
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