J. J. Kruglick Family Weekend Director

Family Weekend director tells why his parents don't visit, and why he wants to be an elephant

WILDCAT: Do you do Family Weekend because your parents never came and saw you on family weekend? Are you just trying to make up for that?

KRUGLICK: My parents came my freshman year.

WILDCAT: Freshman year, so that's two years without your parents coming to see you on Family Weekend.

KRUGLICK: I figured if I ran Family Weekend it would be a way of getting my parents to come down and see me.

WILDCAT: Right, so your parents obviously don't like you too much then, do they?

KRUGLICK: They just respect me.

WILDCAT: What is the craziest thing about Family Weekend?

KRUGLICK: Probably the craziest thing about Family Weekend is all the planning that goes into it. But there is a lot of stuff and I don't really want to get into it.

WILDCAT: And I don't really want to hear it either, to tell you the truth.

KRUGLICK: Yeah ·

WILDCAT: So what is the point of Family Weekend exactly?

KRUGLICK: The point of Family Weekend is for the parents to check up on the freshman after the first two months of school. To make sure they are eating, etc.

WILDCAT: Why can't they call them? Why does there have to be a whole weekend for checking up?

KRUGLICK: I don't know. I told you, I am operating off of ten hours of sleep here.

REPORTER: You slept so little just because of Family Weekend?

KRUGLICK: Yeah, just because of all the planning and parents calling me asking questions.

WILDCAT: So not only do you have to deal with your parents, you have to deal with other people's parents?

KRUGLICK: I have to deal with everyone's parents.

WILDCAT EDITOR IN CHIEF: If you were any barnyard animal what would you be?

KRUGLICK: Well, it's not really a barnyard animal, but an elephant.

WILDCAT: Is that so you can stomp on the parents?

KRUGLICK: It's all about intimidation.