Live music, entertainment and prizes will greet University students cutting through the Diag tomorrow, as nearly 300 groups vie for students' attention.
Festifall, which will occur from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow, is an event where student organizations and community groups set up booths in an effort to recruit new members.
The event will stretch from the Diag to Ingalls Mall, due to construction projects on the Diag. This is also the first year where several local community organizations will be allowed to set up tables alongside campus-based groups.
Information tables will be located at the flagpole and Ingalls Mall where copies of Synergy, a guide to student involvement, will be distributed.
Synergy lists and describes the student organizations that are registered with MSA as well as including involvement opportunities out of other offices.
Susan Wilson, director of Student Activities and Leadership, said Festifall benefits students because they learn about opportunities that could enhance their classroom education.
"Student involvement in organizations teaches many skills to students such as how to coordinate activities, and how to communicate giving students a deeper understanding of their academic discipline on their own terms," Wilson said.
She also said Festifall lets students and organizers meet face to face.
Seven hundred registered students initiate and run organizations on campus, ranging from College Republicans to the Comic Opera Guild.
Anita Bohn, a Project Serve coordinator, said many local community service agencies will be at Festifall.
"Forty local agencies, ranging (from) soup kitchens, shelters, schools, University hospital to environmental agencies will be present at Festifall for students to talk to," Bohn said. "This is a great way for people to meet people and get information from organizations, both in the community and the University."
LSA sophomore Lindsay Millard said that as a first-year student, Festifall was beneficial in relaying information on organizations.
"Anything that puts information out there on organizations is a good idea," Millard said. "Festifall makes it convenient to talk to student organizations. Since all you have to do is walk through the Diag on the way to class, you don't have to do anything. Everyone is just sitting there."
Students also can register to vote at the Voice Your Vote registration booth.
"There are two people there and you can register, and you're done," Miller said.