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Greek Life is a dominant social activity on campus. But there are other ways to get involved if one wishes, be it club athletics or intramural sports. Football games and basketball games are massive events that the majority of campus gets involved with.

Greek Life is a dominant social activity on campus. But there are other ways to get involved if one wishes, be it club athletics or intramural sports. Football games and basketball games are massive events that the majority of campus gets involved with.

Social life is really dependent on whether you are greek or non-greek. Their is plenty to do in Knoxville without being a greek, but being the greek community gives you a community and social scene immediately. Lots of alchohol, but no hard drugs that I ever saw. Great underground music scene. Old City was great once I was legal.

Football games, basketball games, and anything else you can think of...UT has it. I even joined the badminton club one year. Plenty of greek letters seen around campus, if that's your fancy then UT has that also.

I was actually not involved with UTK activities my freshamn year because I wanted to focus on my grades first and get situated to college, and I had to work when I wasn't going to school.

Fraternities and Sororities are by far the most popular groups on campus, followed by the religious organizations. I always left my door open in my dorm, but that was more because of the heat than anything. I was involved in so many different things, but most of my time was spent with my Fraternity and with a Greek (as in Fraternities and Sororities) Christian Ministry on campus. Football is King, I never went to the Theater and the only guest speaker I ever heard speak was Governor Bredesen. Met my friends through the Fraternity and the others through photography and italian classes. Most of my girlfriends were in Sororities. We have the Vol Walk, Homecoming, the SAE Boxing Tournament, All-Sing, the Florida game and Rush Week that happen every year. People party on Thursday and Friday nights, and on the weekends. To me, fraternities were extremely important, but that's because we ran SGA, All Campus Events and anything else related to student government or Homecoming.

UTK activities and social life is an amazing thing. Several people believe that it is the only reason several kids go to college. This is false. Almost all go for their academics though their social lives are also important. If one's social life falters, their academics usually start to reflect. Several students go "Greek" which means join a fraternity or sorority. UTK offers several different ones to choose from and there is a "rush" held two times a year. Students that live in the dorms are either really open with each other or keep to themselves. A lot depends on the floor that you live on and who your Resident Assistant is. My RA this past year was really awesome about making sure that she knew everyone and tried to come up with several floor activities to help get everyone together. A special bond develops between the people on the different floors if people are interested in helping it form. I will never forget my college experiences that happened while living in the dorm. Parties are held almost every day of the week for those people who wish to attend. Students will normally wait until the weekend or the later part of the week before going out. This helps with grades and tests. There are several activities a person can do instead of drinking. They can go to the gym and workout or play sports with their friends, go for a hike, watch a movie, go out to eat, go out on the town, still go to parties but just not drink, or just hang out with friends.

There are many fraternities and sororities on campus that students join to make initial friends, however, they tend party...ALOT! There are many traditions that happen every year, and living on campus helps students stay up to date on those. There's Homecoming Events with Smokey's Howl, The Vol Walk for every football game, and much more.

Again-[(engineering students+insane curriculum)^(university hands in pockets)]*(disassociated faculty)= no life so can't comment here unless you count getting liquored up after exams and streaking main street:)

Athletic events are the most popular events on our campus. With a stadium capacity well over 100,000..who wouldn't be excited about going to a football game?! I'm not involved in a fraternity and do not care to fit into that social scene. But most of the time they do provide respectful charity work to the area. There are plenty of opportunities to make road trips to Nashville to see a concert or go shopping in Atlanta or catch your favorite small band in Asheville all in a day's trip. Of course, the natural surroundings are also plentiful with the Great Smoky Mountains as a great backdrop to go camping, canoeing, or even just going to the mountains for a retreat in a cabin or chalet.

GET INVOLVED! There is tons to do.

Athletic events, concerts, parties, or just hanging out with friends are some of the fun things to do at Tennessee. Groups, clubs, teams on campus are things that you can also do for fun there are many intramural teams and many different clubs. In fact, I think there are over 350 clubs in tennessee so you are bound to find something that you like, if not you can create one yourself!

Greek Organizations: As a member of a Greek sorority, I have the first hand chance to see just how much the Greek system benefits the community through their fundraisers and philanthropy events. I realize that some fraternities throw parties which are clearly violating the rules for campus, but I believe that the University is taking this way too seriously. It seems that the University is not Pro-Greek, and if you ask me that is not going to benefit the university if they do away with the Greek system. As we all have heard the alerts and the increase in crime on or around campus UTPD has done a mediocre job. Yes, they patrol campus and the Fort, but has that stopped the robberies? No. I believe that if the University spent half the effort that they put in trying to catch Fraternities for alcohol related issues on campus safety then we might actually be getting somewhere. I hate to be one to stereotype people, but given that I read the yellow alert posters that are posted all over campus following a robbery or shooting, has anyone realized that most of the crimes take place in the Fort, not Fraternity Park, and heaven forbid anyone notice that the assailants’ attires ARE NOT polos and kakis.

I am involved in Pi Beta Phi and I am an Orientation Leader, which I love both! Some other great organizations that I want to get involved in are ACE, SGA, and SAA. Every year, we have welcome week for the freshman, carnicus, all-sing, and torch night as UT traditions.

The Greek Community is very strong here. There is always something to do with this community of people. They have a strongly structured academic standards and hope to create active American Citizens. Every one in the fall is all football, in a way it unites the student body from the sepperations.

It's been great and a lot of fun.

i think the most popular groups on campus is the frat/sorority life. they are a great way to get involved and help the community and have fun. i am a part of a sorority. athletic events are very popular!! great time spent with friends at games.

Greek life is HUGE on campus...because of the Greek system, many students get involved in other activities such as: SGA, ACE comittee, etc...

I think sororities are important. They allow you to get involved in many different ways. You do charity work as well as sports, fundraiser and a WHOLE bunch more. I love it!

I think Greek life is a very popular option for a lot of students at UT. Of course since I am involved in a sorority a lot of people I meet are as well, but I think a lot of people join to get involved in a tradition and to meet new people, to get involved. I do not care for frat boys; therefore, my dating life has been fairly weak. I think frats/sororities are an important part of college life because there are so many activities getting people involved and a lot of fund raising for various philanthropies, which is important for students to be a part of. I met my closest friends through Delta Zeta and my room mate. I was lucky enough to get a random room mate that I'm IN LOVE with, so she is my best friend. She is in a different sorority so I have become almost an honorary member of her sorority, so I've been lucky enough to make twice the amount of friends. Students don't leave their doors open. This is Knoxville. We don't need invitations for rape or theft.