The faculty and staff of Emory College and the Campus Life staff of Emory University encourage students to participate in a wide variety of campus and community activities, knowing that the curricular and cocurricular activities should complement and enrich one another. Students may choose among activities that range from art and music to sports and politics both within the Emory community and beyond.
The Arts at Emory
Emory offers creative and interpretive opportunities, in both curricular and cocurricular contexts, in music, theater, art, dance, and creative writing. Prominent artists visit the campus regularly, and students are encouraged to use the cultural resources of Atlanta as well as Emory.
Music
Instrumental and choral ensembles offer students an opportunity to perform and learn music of all periods. Students wishing to participate can find a rewarding place in one of the many ensembles. Private instruction is also available. Local, national, and international artists visit the campus regularly for concerts, master classes, and symposia in the Music at Emory Series, including the Flora Glenn Candler Concert Series, the University Organist Recital Series, and the faculty guest series. The wealth of concert opportunities allows students to hear a wide variety of professional performances.
Most musical ensembles are open to students, faculty, and staff from the various graduate and professional schools as well as Emory College. Several ensembles have toured extensively, both nationally and internationally. Students are encouraged to participate.
Theater
Students interested in theater have a wide range of opportunities at Emory. Theater Emory is a unique collaboration of experienced theater artists, scholars, and students. Actors, designers, and directors from throughout the United States and abroad work side by side with students. Under the direction of these resident professionals, students are assessed on an individual basis and offered opportunities to assume responsibilities on and off stage with Theater Emory.
Students are invited to participate in all aspects of the operation of Theater Emory. Other opportunities for gaining theatrical experience exist through participation in the activities of student-run organizations such as Ad Hoc Productions, Starving Artists Productions, and Rathskellar, as well as Alpha Psi Omega, the honorary dramatic fraternity. Finally, the city of Atlanta has in recent years become one of the liveliest centers of professional theater in the country.
Art
The Department of Art History offers basic and intermediate studio courses in drawing, painting, photography, film, video, sculpture, and ceramics as well ass a studio art minor. In addition, advanced courses may be taken at cooperating institutions in the Atlanta area.
Dance
The Emory Dance Company provides an in-depth working experience with dance from the beginning stage of the creative process to a completed concert performance. Students have the opportunity to choreograph and perform while learning technical concert production. Auditions are held every semester, with commitments and responsibilities tailored to meet students' individual needs. The Emory Dance Company regularly commissions choreographic works and musical scores by guest artists. Performances also include annual concerts of faculty and student works. In addition, the company performs at university worship services and at local and regional concerts and festivals.
The Dance Alliance Emory and AHANA (African, Hispanic, Asian, Native American) student dance organizations offer other performing opportunities in dance.
Creative Writing
Students may take undergraduate courses at both beginning and advanced levels in fiction, poetry, and other forms of writing. Outside of the classroom, student writing of various kinds is published regularly in the Lullwater Review, the Phoenix, the Edge, and the Spoke. Public readings of fiction and poetry written by students are sponsored by the Stipe Society and other groups.
Publications
There is strong interest in student publications at Emory. Student publications consistently earn national awards from the Associated Collegiate Press and Columbus Scholastic Press Association, as well as regional and state honors from the Southeast Journalism Conference and Georgia Collegiate Press Association. Students may work in any phase of journalism that interests them, including writing, editing, advertising, sales, photography, and layout.
The Edge
The Edge is Emory's general interest, nonfiction magazine. Through in-depth articles and feature stories on issues relevant to the Emory community, The Edge describes society on the edge of change.
The Emory Wheel
The Wheel is Emory's nationally acclaimed, twice weekly student newspaper. It covers the gamut of campus news with sections devoted to news, features, editorials, sports, and arts/entertainment. The Emory Wheel offers experience to students interested in all aspects of journalism.
The Fire This Time
The Fire This Time is a newspaper devoted to raising community awareness of issues related to race. The paper seeks to foster a better understanding of the history and accomplishments of African-Americans and an appreciation for the diversity of cultures present at Emory.
The Lullwater Review
The Lullwater Review is Emory's nationally recognized literary review. It features poetry and fiction by nationally known and local writers, and includes exceptional work by Emory students.
Phoenix
The Phoenix is a student arts newspaper that publishes feature articles, essays, interviews, poetry, fiction, and photography.
The Spoke
The Spoke began as a parody of The Emory Wheel, and is now one of the few college humor magazines extant today. It features parodies of well-known publications and free-form humor.
ATHLETICS AT EMORY -- ATHLETICS FOR ALL
The long-standing motto of Emory's athletics program, "Athletics for All," reaffirms the university's goal to provide athletic opportunities for all students, whether for a varsity athlete, a fitness buff, or a recreational participant.
Emory's varsity athletic teams compete in the NCAA Division III, which comprises schools that offer academic scholarships and need-based financial aid but no athletic scholarships. Along with eight other leading private research universities, Emory is a member of the University Athletic Association. The UAA institutions believe that academic excellence and athletic excellence are not mutually exclusive; that a consistent and challenging level of athletic competition should be provided for both men and women; that athletic excellence is not to be confused with a win-at-all-costs attitude, but properly relates to the caliber of experience offered to students who participate in intercollegiate athletics; and that athletic programs should not only complement the academic experience, but should also reflect the quality of the academic environment within which they exist.
Emory's seventeen varsity teams participate in UAA round-robin competition in men's and women's basketball and soccer, and conference championships in cross-country, women's volleyball, swimming and diving, indoor and outdoor track and field, baseball, men's golf, and men's and women's tennis.
The George W. Woodruff Physical Education Center is the centerpiece of the athletics and recreation program with facilities and equipment available for use by everyone in the Emory community. Inside the center are four regulation-size basketball and volleyball courts, an Olympic-size swimming pool, racquetball and squash courts, and an indoor track. The equipment includes Stairmasters, rowing machines, Nautilus circuits and exercycles. Adjacent to the P. E. Center are an outdoor track, soccer field, and tennis courts.
Emory's intramural program continues to expand each year in activities and popularity. The program has boasted as many as eighty nine hundred participants in forty-six activities ranging from badminton to bowling to flag football to softball to sports trivia.
Worship life at Emory is focused in Cannon Chapel, an extraordinary building of contemporary design by Paul Rudolph. The university chaplain leads ecumenical worship there each Sunday, and there are morning and evening celebrations of the Mass for Roman Catholic students. Additional services are held weekly and on a seasonal basis, including Advent and Holy Week services in the Christian tradition and High Holy Days services in the Jewish tradition.
FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES
Active chapters of national Greek fraternities on campus include Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Tau Delta, Kappa Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Phi Delta Theta, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, and Sigma Nu. Active chapters of national Greek sororities on campus include Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Phi, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Phi Epsilon, Delta Sigma Theta, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Interfraternity Council
The Interfraternity Council, with representatives from every active fraternity, is the coordinating and governing body for the twelve Greek fraternities on campus.
Intersorority Council
The Intersorority Council, with representatives from every active sorority, is the coordinating and governing body for the nine Greek sororities on campus.
ORGANIZATIONS
Student Government Association
The SGA consists of representatives from each school of the university. It oversees the operation of all student organizations on campus, approves annual budgets of student activities, and supervises the disbursement of student activity fees to each organization.
Allied Health Council
The officers of the council, elected by allied health students, are active in social and political activities at the university level. The officers also coordinate activities among the various allied health programs. The council publishes an allied health newsletter.
Allied Health Student Honor Council
The Allied Health Student Honor Council has primary jurisdiction over the adherence to and supervision of the Honor Code as it applied to students in allied health education programs. The council is composed of eight elected student representatives and two faculty members.
Student Programming Council
The Student Programming Council is composed of five SGA committees which collectively develop programs to enhance the social, recreational, cultural, and educational well-being of Emory students. The SPC cosponsors activities with organizations and departments across the entire university.
Publications Council
The Publications Council regulates all student publications.
Barkley Forum
The Barkley Forum is one of the finest debate programs in the country. It hosts national tournaments and provides its members a wide range of educational opportunities through national competition.
Special Interest and Activity Clubs
The Alcohol and Drug Education Committee, Jazz Ensemble, Psi Phi Science Fiction Club, and Circle K are among the more than 180 groups through which students pursue special hobbies or personal interests.
Black Student Alliance
The BSA is devoted to maintaining a cohesive black community on campus, to promoting knowledge of black culture, and to providing a forum for the expression of the ideas and goals of black students.
Choices
Choices provides guidance for university women students and encourages awareness of the concerns of women.
Volunteer Emory
Volunteer Emory is a program established and directed by students, with assistance from the administration of Emory College and the Campus Life staff. It brings students into contact with groups whom they can help--the young, the elderly, the sick, the poor.