Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - Your First Year the University (1935) [PAGE 24]

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A M O N G the major groups of student activities, athletics is probably the best JL\ known. Varsity athletics includes football, basketball, track, baseball, wrestling, swimming, fencing, soccer, gymnastics, water polo, golf, and tennis. Intramural sports add a large number of minor sports to these. Sports for women include basketball, baseball, swimming, hockey, gymnastics, soccer, tennis, archery, and others. Publications provide another activity for men and women on both editorial and business staffs of "The Daily Illini, ,, student daily newspaper, "The Illio," the year book, and various periodicals. Dramatics in the fine Lincoln Hall Theatre, with both musical and dramatic productions, the Illinois Union, Woman's League, Advanced Military, Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A., Inter-Fraternity and Independent Councils for men, Pan-Hellenic Council and Woman's Group System for women, University Concert and Entertainment Board, University Bands, Glee Clubs, Chorus, and Orchestra are available for those interested. Class organizations provide activities for many students with the election of class officers and the subsequent appointment of class committees, which carry on numerous functions and give many opportunities for active work. In addition to all these, there is a multitude of organizations, honor societies, professional societies, social organizations, church and foundation groups, class councils, college councils, and so on, which provide further activities. The variety of such activities is endless, and the individual student who wishes an activity with which to supplement his classroom work should easily find it.

N D E R G R A D U A T E student affairs and life outside laboratory and classroom are under the broad direction of the Senate Committee on Student Affairs, a group of faculty members meeting regularly to consider matters pertaining to those aspects of student life, activity, and interest bordering the curricular realm. The Committee's function has been that of making student life and extra-curricular activity a wholesome, integral, and educationally valuable part of a university education. It seeks also to make these leisure-time pursuits more worthwhile for students. Regulations governing student affairs are formulated by the Committee; social programs are approved; activity events proposed are evaluated and scheduled upon the activities calendar; procedures and practices in the conduct of student enterprises are prescribed. A special banking and accounting service, administered by the University Comptroller and Committee, is made available to student organizations and enterprises; budgets are approved, financial progress checked, and business counsel given by the Committee. Fraternities and sororities make regular budgetary and financial reports to the Committee and avail themselves of its counsel in managing their affairs. Organization accounts are audited and financial reports publicized by the Committee. Administration of the motor vehicle restriction rule is entrusted to the Committee. The Committee attempts to improve living conditions and to establish residence standards.

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