Reilly prepared for presidency
Two weeks ago the president’s office was empty. Now gym shorts, ROCKSTARs and Wolf Pack memorabilia fill the office.President Eli Reilly said it’s all a part of who he is and a reminder of how grateful he is that he ended up at the University of Nevada, Reno.
“It was a bizarre turn of events,” Reilly, a 20-year-old history major, said.
Reilly’s original plan was to attend UNR for a year, then transfer to the University of Redlands, a California school he had a $35,000 scholarship for. After a year, his plans changed and he decided to stay at UNR. He has attended UNR for the past three years.
“It was the people,” Reilly said. “It was the environment.”
Reilly wanted to stay for the experience, from painting the N to meeting all the people who worked for the Associated Students of the University of Nevada.
His freshman year, Reilly met Jeff Champagne, the ASUN president for 2005-2007, a man who is now an inspiration to Reilly.
Seeing Champagne put so much effort into the university made Reilly realize the importance of college events.
Champagne said despite Reilly’s high position as president, Reilly will always remain a playful guy who can make anybody’s day better.
“Whenever I was having a bad day as president I would go to the programming office and talk to Eli to cheer up,” Champagne said.
Reilly’s way of cheering people up generally involves passionately singing a popular rap song.
“He knows every lyric to every gangster rap song,” Champagne said.
Reilly said he is so energetic because he doesn’t want to lose any moment of college.
“I spent my freshman year watching block parties from my dorm room while I played ‘World of Warcraft,’” Reilly said. “That’s not how people should spend their college years.”
Reilly got involved in Flipside Productions his freshman year and loved watching students benefit from events.
“We’re giving people the college experience,” Reilly said.
That is what keeps Reilly pumped throughout the day. Reilly said the college experience includes anything from playing pool at Pub N’ Sub, to taking a class in an interesting subject.
Reilly said he looks forward to new buildings opening, new traditions starting and his favorite event– freshman orientation.
He said he loves freshman orientation because he gets a chance to tell people what he didn’t know.
“I tell them to do everything: ‘Even if you don’t want to, no matter how stupid it might sound,’” Reilly said. “It’s college. Why not?”
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