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The University of Chicago hosts 19 varsity sports teams: 10 men's teams and 9 women's teams,[124] all called the Maroons, with 502 students participating in the 2012–2013 school year.[124] The Maroons compete in the NCAA's Division III as members of the University Athletic Association (UAA). The university was a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and participated in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball and Football and was a regular participant in the Men's Basketball tournament. In 1935, the University of Chicago reached the Sweet Sixteen.[124] However, the university chose to withdraw from the conference in 1946 after University President Robert Maynard Hutchins de-emphasized varsity athletics in 1939 and dropped football.[125] (In 1969, Chicago reinstated football as a Division III team, resuming playing its home games at the new Stagg Field.) Student life The university's Reynolds Club, the student center Student organizations Students at the University of Chicago run over 400 clubs and organizations known as Recognized Student Organizations (RSOs).[126][127] These include cultural and religious groups, academic clubs and teams, and common-interest organizations.[127] Among notable RSOs are the nation's longest continuously running student film society Doc Films, organizing committee for the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt, the twice-weekly student newspaper The Chicago Maroon, the alternative weekly student newspaper South Side Weekly, the nation's second oldest continuously running student improvisational theater troupe Off-Off Campus, and the university-owned radio station WHPK-FM. Student Government All Recognized Student Organizations, from the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt to Model UN, in addition to academic teams, sports club, arts groups, and more are funded by The University of Chicago Student Government. Student Government is made up of graduate and undergraduate students elected to represent members from their respective academic unit. It is led by an Executive Committee, chaired by a President with the assistance of two Vice Presidents, one for Administration and the other for Student Life, elected together as a slate by the student body each spring. Its annual budget is greater than $2 million.[128] Fraternities and sororities There are fifteen fraternities and seven sororities at the University of Chicago,[129] as well as one co-ed community service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega.[130] Four of the sororities are members of the National Panhellenic Conference,[131] and ten of the fraternities form the University of Chicago Interfraternity Council.[132] In 2002, the Associate Director of Student Activities estimated that 8–10 percent of undergraduates were members of fraternities or sororities.[131] The student activities office has used similar figures, stating that one in ten undergraduates participate in Greek life.[129] Student housing An orange brick building with pink window frames and a blue roof Max Palevsky Residential Commons, a dormitory constructed in 2001 designed by postmodernist Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta Main article: Housing at the University of Chicago On-campus undergraduate students at the University of Chicago participate in a house system in which each student is assigned to one of the university's 11 residence hall buildings and to a smaller community within their residence hall called a "house". There are 38 houses, with an average of 70 students in each house[133] Freshmen are required to participate in the house system, and housing is guaranteed every year thereafter.[134] About 60% of undergraduate students live on campus.[134] For graduate students, the university owns and operates 28 apartment buildings near campus.[135] Traditions Qwazy Quad Rally, Scav Hunt 2005, item #38 Main articles: Doc Films, Summer Breeze (concert) and University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt Every May since 1987, the University of Chicago has held the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt, in which large teams of students compete to obtain notoriously esoteric items from a list.[136] Since 1963, the Festival of the Arts (FOTA) takes over campus for 7–10 days of exhibitions and interactive artistic endeavors.[137] The university also annually holds a summer carnival and concert called Summer Breeze that hosts outside musicians, and is home to Doc Films, a student film society founded in 1932 that screens films nightly at the university. Since 1946, the university has organized the Latke-Hamantash Debate, which involves humorous discussions about the relative merits and meanings of latkes and hamantashen. |
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