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A very popular group of campus is the club ski team. anyone can join for a fee and they travel during the winter to compete with various schools. for the most part, the people who join don't always have much experience so you don't need to be good to do it. Students on the ski team host a lot of parties and are a very close knit of kids- for this reason many people want to join. Another great club I am in is called the bison pals. Students in the club get paired up with a member of the local community who is mentally challenged. The club is very rewarding and a lot of fun, but nice for someone who cannot make a regular weekly commitment to something. Dating at Bucknell is very common. Though there is a huge hookup culture, many people partake in it to find a significant other. I am single right now, but most of my friends are in relationships. People are Bucknell hold a conception that it is important to marry another Bucknellian. People party on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. If you are in a frat or a senior, you may go out more than this. Though most people go out three nights a week, come junior year, there is less pressure to go out every night there is a good party. The party scene also revolves around greek life. It can be very hard for someone not in a frat/sorority to get into a party because many of them are "mixers"- parties for one frat and sorority that open to everyone at midnight. Frats and sports teams also hold almost every party on campus. If you don't want to drink, Bucknell is great about making sure there are other things to do. There is a very active students activities committee that plan events every weekend without alcohol- bingo nights, cooking classes, dessert parties, movies, comedians, singers, carnivals in the gym. Actually, these events are popular and at events like bingo, real prizes are given such as Ipads. Unfortunately, besides the bars and the movie theater, there is not much to do off campus in Lewisburg on a weekend. For this reason, the school works hard to plan fun events and students tend to host many parties in a given weekend.

A very popular group of campus is the club ski team. anyone can join for a fee and they travel during the winter to compete with various schools. for the most part, the people who join don't always have much experience so you don't need to be good to do it. Students on the ski team host a lot of parties and are a very close knit of kids- for this reason many people want to join. Another great club I am in is called the bison pals. Students in the club get paired up with a member of the local community who is mentally challenged. The club is very rewarding and a lot of fun, but nice for someone who cannot make a regular weekly commitment to something. Dating at Bucknell is very common. Though there is a huge hookup culture, many people partake in it to find a significant other. I am single right now, but most of my friends are in relationships. People are Bucknell hold a conception that it is important to marry another Bucknellian. People party on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. If you are in a frat or a senior, you may go out more than this. Though most people go out three nights a week, come junior year, there is less pressure to go out every night there is a good party. The party scene also revolves around greek life. It can be very hard for someone not in a frat/sorority to get into a party because many of them are "mixers"- parties for one frat and sorority that open to everyone at midnight. Frats and sports teams also hold almost every party on campus. If you don't want to drink, Bucknell is great about making sure there are other things to do. There is a very active students activities committee that plan events every weekend without alcohol- bingo nights, cooking classes, dessert parties, movies, comedians, singers, carnivals in the gym. Actually, these events are popular and at events like bingo, real prizes are given such as Ipads. Unfortunately, besides the bars and the movie theater, there is not much to do off campus in Lewisburg on a weekend. For this reason, the school works hard to plan fun events and students tend to host many parties in a given weekend.

So greek life at Bucknell is important to talk about, because it has such a big presence on campus, and it goes hand in hand with parties. Because we are in Lewisburg, PA, we obviously look to campus to keep ourselves interested on the weekends. Frat parties hold a monopoly on Bucknell’s social scene. But greek life isn’t about parties, it is about having a non-related and large “family” that you can call your own while you’re at Bucknell. This provides enormous comfort and stability for a lot of young Bucknellian men and women. Going through rush is not only a good idea for the sake of getting into a sorority, but just for the sake of meeting more of your classmates. Bucknell is great because no matter who you are, you will find a sorority that you can mix well with if you choose to do so. If you do decide that Bucknell is something you interested in, you should seriously consider taking advantage of this great social support group while you’re here. As for those gay and lesbian, and or LGBT individuals out there wondering what it will be like for you specifically if you should decide to come to Bucknell, I will let you know what it was like for me freshman year. As I was in my coming out stages, I was eager to meet “All” the gay people, and join the lgbt group, and fight for gay rights, and take the lesbian populous by storm, I quickly discovered that college in rural Pennsylvania meant that there weren’t a lot of gay people, or maybe there just aren’t a lot of out people. So, as was my objective of this review, to tell the truth, I feel that I should let you know that there aren’t a ton of gay/out people here. However, unlike many other places I’d guess, Bucknell is extremely welcoming towards lgbt students, in terms of the student body, the professors and many of the student run organizations on campus, including a Christian support group (most involved w/flag surprisingly). SO if you’re a gay Christian, you will have a home here. But one of the first places you should visit when you come to campus is the LGBT office. It is one of the nicest offices on campus. it’s comfortably and cozy, and has the nicest people who work there. As a gay student, I would encourage you to go an introduce yourself to Fran and Laura, you won’t regret it! They work hard all year-round to get gay comedians, speakers and panels to come to campus and enrich the student body with all things gay!

Bucknellians work hard and play hard. Many students are involved with numerous clubs while still maintaining their grades. The party scene is huge, but as I said before, ACE provides tons of alternative non-alcoholic events. Also, simply put, not all students are Greek or big partyers. CHOICErs are non-alcoholic/non-drug students. Many of the members in KRAID and Writers of Rohan, which both hold non-alcoholic meetings and events, are CHOICE members (though not all of them are). Big events that happen each year... Well, big music artists come by once in awhile. Last year we had Reel Big Fish, Ludacris, and OAR. Also, the Temptations and the Four Tops performed at our annual Chrysalis event, which is a campus-wide formal. Politically speaking, I think students are pretty diverse: there are liberals, there are conservatives, there are moderates, and there are... apathetics. As for the faculty and staff, though, they highly lean towards the left. And it shows with the speakers they choose to have here.

The most popular groups on campus is Greek Life. Greek Life is very important at Bucknell, with over 50{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of upperclassmen are greek (freshmen can't rush). Most of the parties during the weekend are Frat parties, but not being greek doesn't hurt your soical life. Some people join to drink, I joined a sorority for the sisterhood. Joining Chi Omega has definitly been one of the best desisons I have made while at Bucknell. I have new and larger group of friends. We are active on campus through community service and philanthrophy, we support each other and are very proud to wear our letters. If drinking is not your scene, then Bucknell offers tons of activites to do on Friday and Saturday nights. There are awesome bands (Plain White T's, The Ataris!), comeidens, themed bingo nights and trivia nights, pool tourdaments and movies. There is always something to do. Basketball games are very popular here and tickets tend to sell out. Guest speakers are also heavily attended. Last year Bill Nye the Science Guy came to speak and the line streched across campus.

Social life is rather open at Bucknell. Most people leave their doors open and there is always some sort of function, lecture, party or otherwise happening every weekend. Basically, it's what you wish to make of it.

Sports are really important at Bucknell, although I've always thought people put too much emphasis on them. For awhile when our basketball team was doing really well, the administration tried to focus more on athletics, but it met a lot of opposition. I've always liked that athletes here are students first, and it angered me when the administration tried to change that to bring the University more prestige. People party all the time. Although there are definately non-alcoholic options, there is a big divide between people who party and people who don't, especially freshman year. Greek life is important, but its not typical Greek life... its more accepting. If you break up with someone, its hard not to see them if you don't want to... the campus is too small to avoid people. There are a ton of opportunities to do things, too many to take advantage of them all. Theater productions, classical and jazz concerts, lectures, Bingo, free/cheap movies, these things happen every weekend and so there is always something to do. You just have to look for it.

XC and track's pretty cool. We do pretty well competition wise. Dorm doors stay open, its not really a big deal. People pretty much go to everything from athletics to speakers. Dating...uh I have a boyfriend, we met here. Can't say much more there, we've been together over a year so I don't really pay attention to the dating scene. Met my closest friends through groups I'm in. 2am tuesday...I'm probably doing work or watching a movie if I'm up. Traditions/events there are lots. How often you party depends on who you are. Frats and sororities are big for some people. I honestly don't care. Last weekend I watched my team win the league championship. Saturday night: no alcohol: comedians, ace events, 7th street, movies... Off campus I volunteer, visit friends, stop at walmart from time to time...

Greek life is a huge part of the social life at Bucknell. Guest speakers are really popular and they try to schedule them on nights most people do not have class.

Fraternities and Sororities Fraternity I do. Some people dont. Some people still. And some people dont. You take your chances not anymore. basketball used to be awesome but not anymore fucken all the time, i hate them yeh People hook up all the time. Its almost ridiculous. Classes. Thats when i get up after my 12oclock nap. Then off to study more. Some crazy shit. House party Every weekend + Wednsday. We got that shit scheduled out here. Pretty if you wanna get laid. Partay all night long. Watch other people drink. Or cry alone in your room. Go to wallmart or get a haircut.