New semester started as various student associations eagerly call in freshmen to join them. 114 student associations of 6 categories advertised themselves in all manner of ways, such as Hip hop, kickboxing, racing car, Han Chinese clothing, housemaid costume, etc.

Yoga Association publicized a campus fellowship activity held in this April, which even attracted students from Central South University and Hunan Normal University.

Luxury vehicles like Lamborghini, Porsche, Ford pickup truck, as well as two racing cars presented at the Automobile Association’s booth, which undoubtedly attracted eyeballs and active applicants.

Volunteer Associations were certainly the biggest winners in this popularity-grabbing competition.

FLY Association organizes events as design competition on environmental protection and thousands-of-people walk to protect the Xiangjiang River year after year, which always attracted many participators. Every year, over 100 FLY members go to the local schools at the remote or poverty-stricken areas in western Hunan and Guizhou Province to be volunteer teachers. Till the noon of that recruitment day, nearly 150 students applied to join FLY.

The Rainbow Students Education-aid Association recruited 90 newcomers within half of the day. Yuelu Academy Lecturing Association was also popular.

“Since 2007, more and more students have been willing to devote themselves to kinds of volunteer associations. It has built a brand among the student associations”, said Liu Wei, vice chairman of the HNU Student Association Union. “We so far have plenty of members in each volunteer association. Next we will try to be more professional and systematic”.