{"id":27589,"date":"2019-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/welcome-back-week-at-tarleton-features-music-activities-food\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:47:08","slug":"welcome-back-week-at-tarleton-features-music-activities-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/welcome-back-week-at-tarleton-features-music-activities-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back week at Tarleton features music, activities, food"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Welcome<\/a><\/p>\n

Welcome Back Week at Tarleton features music, acti<\/p>\n

For Immediate Release<\/p>\n

Monday, Jan. 7, 2019<\/p>\n

Stephenville, Texas \u2014 Tarleton State University greets students back to campus for 2019 with a full slate of activities for Welcome Back Week featuring live music, activities and food beginning Monday, Jan. 14.<\/p>\n

Giovannie and the Hired Guns, a Texas country band based in Lipan, highlight Monday\u2019s 7 p.m. Welcome Back Bash at the Thompson Student Center.<\/p>\n

The week\u2019s festivities continue with laser tag at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Thompson Student Center Ballrooms and donuts and coffee from the Student Government Association at 9 and 11 a.m. Wednesday, also at the TSC. Wednesday\u2019s schedule includes 4 and 8 p.m. showings of \u201cA Star is Born\u201d at the planetarium in the Lamar Johanson Science Building.<\/p>\n

Food takes center stage Thursday with the Spring in Tarleton Luncheon for new students at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the TSC Ballrooms and the Purple Picnic at noon and 2 p.m. outside the student center<\/p>\n

Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today\u2019s scholars into tomorrow\u2019s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.<\/p>\n

Contact: Phil Riddle, News and Information Specialist<\/p>\n

817-484-4415<\/p>\n

priddle@tarleton.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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