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About 50{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of our student body joins a sorority or fraternity.

I wish that social life with regard to on campus events was more prevelent. While a lot of people go to the homecoming Football game, generally sporting events are poorly attended. They are making an effort to try and change this by "luring" kids to games (through preyground points and free food as well as a lot of advertising) but I still feel like a we could have more school spirit. Same goes for guest speakers, etc... I wish that more people attended these things, however I don't always take advantage of them myself. Students generally leave doors open in my experience which makes it easier to just go and try and get to know your neighbors which is really important in meeting people at first. I personally don't think frats/sororities are incredibly important on campus because I know a lot of people who aren't in them. I am in a sorority which for me was very important because I have a harder time meeting people and it definitely just threw me in to a whole group to get to know. Also, sororities and fraternities put on a lot of events (not just lodge parties) that give me something else to do during the week.

Fraternities make up a big part of the social scene, with other greek organizations (sororities, FIJI, etc.) and clubs (A Cappella, club sports, etc.) making up the rest.

Sports takes a backseat at Richmond, although we do have a fairly talented basketball and football team. Most people (the girls at least) leave their doors open or unlocked in the dorms. It is also not uncommon to see people leave their things out in the library--books, papers, bookbags, phones, and laptop computers. Everybody is fairly trusting and stealing is not very prevelant--mainly because people have enough already, there's no need to steal anything from anyone else. On the weekdays, one can expect a small trickle of drunk people coming back to the dorms around 1 or 2 in the morning. This increases significantly come Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. So therefore, if you don't drink--prepare not to have a social life. 90{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} or more of girls rush for a sorority. You may be getting a biased view because I did not rush myself, but in all honesty sororities and fraternities rule the social scene. You are labeled by what you are: a delta gamma, kappa alpha theta, etc. Hierarchies in greek life definitely exist, and are well known.

Sororities and fraternities are a major part of the social scene at Richmond.

weekends at richmond start on thursday if you're normal, wednesday if you have a light class load, and tuesday if you're friends with the guys who host tuesday night pong. if you really want to party, you can do so any day of the week, but most people are active on the weekend nights. the most popular groups on campus are probably intervarsity, which is the interfaith group, and the greek social scene. i think it's something like 40{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the student body is involved in greek life. if you're not, it doesn't really cramp your style but you have to be aware that your friends who are are likely going to be dragged away to socials or parties most weekends. for those involved in greek life, you can be as involved as you want to be. i have friends who are chairpeople of every event, and others who show up to chapter and do the community service. on any given weekend night, there are a few things that are always open. the fraternity lodges, the dorms, and the apartments. usually there are a few things playing at the modlin center for the arts and while they get a lot of talented people, there are rarely many performers that students have heard of before. the lodges are basically dance clubs hosted by fraternities, and the apartments have huge parties. for people who don't drink, there are movies playing every weekend night in the tyler haynes commons, which is our student center, plus there are always people hanging out in the dorms. i usually spend one night of the weekend drinking and the other hanging out with friends. the best thing about the weekend is brunch. on saturdays and sundays, Dhall serves breakfast until three, and it is the best part of the week. in fact, dhall is just awesome. between the stir-fry, panini bar, and the crazy desserts, it almost never gets boring. and if you do get bored with dhall, there's always waffle house, the southern breakfast chain that is open 24 hours.

most popular groups: fraternities, sororities I was a DJ for WDCE, the radio station athletic events not real popular like they are at bigger state schools dating scene is heavily based on cliques pig roast happens every year, if you're into the party scene, it's a lot of fun people party almost every thursday, friday, saturday night fraternities, sororities VERY important, if you're not in one, you're not one of the cool kids, and they're kind of exclusive for getting into because they're all about who you know if you do stuff on a saturday night that doesn't involve drinking, chances are that you're by yourself

Richmond is a hard party school. Just about every weekend someone is taken to the hospital for alcoholic abuse. The campus cops don't really bust anyone but if u come to Richmond, expect your social life to revolve largely around drinking. Pot use was also very common in my freshman hall. Most people seem to enjoy the school social life, I am not one of them because I am in the minority who does not drink, and does not seem to get along well with others at this school in social conversation. If your quote on quote normal, Richmond is a good place for you. If your quote on quote, not normal, you may want to pick another school. A curious mind does not always thrive at Richmond, a completely intoxicated one does.

One thing that I like is that no matter what night of the week it is you can usually find some people to party with. I'm a work-hard-play-hard kind of person, so after a long day of class and hw I want to let loose a bit. It's not always exciting fun, but it beats going back to your room and watching TV and going to sleep. The best thing I've noticed about UR is once your friends have apartments or off-campus houses, the social scene is a lot more fun. Dorm parties get old after a year or so, but having larger spaces to socialize gives you a lot more options. The fraternity scene is pretty big at UR, but it doesn't matter if you are in one or not. A lot of my friends are in frat/srats, but I am not and I still have a lot of fun. It kinda sucks when they are pledging and then the following semester because they are all wanting to be really fratty right after they join, but that grows out of them and they are back to being your regular friends. It is a lot easier to meet girls if you are in a fraternity because they flock to their parties. Whether or not you are in a frat, the dating scene relies heavily on Greek life. I think all the girls I've been involved with were in sororities, but honestly I think they are a pretty big joke...although they have fun socials.

Social life is awesome. If you're a party boy/girl, you're set. If you dont like drinking, you're set. The school makes sure that everyone's happy and everyone has something to do. And contrary to popular belief, Greek life is not essential. However my sorority has enhanced my life in thousands of ways far far beyond the social/party aspect, and I wouldn't trade it for anything and would recommend it to everyone.

EVERYONE DRINKS BECAUSE THERE IS NOT MUCH ELSE TO DO. I DO NOT DRINK MUCH AT ALL AND MY SOCIAL LIFE SUFFERED AS A RESULT. PEOPLE DRINK EVERY NIGHT OF THE WEEK.

Richmond students love to work hard and play hard, and most of the time they play harder than they work. As for the party scene, a usual night starts out with friends pregaming in their dorm rooms/apartments until 11:30 or 12. Then they either head out to the apartments (where some juniors/basically all seniors live on campus) or the lodges. Each fraternity has their own lodge, which is a little house where the frat holds parties. The parties are basically just a huge dance floor inside with very drunken dancing and loud music and then people hanging out in the outside back of the lodge. People either love lodges or hate them. Other people just hang out and go to the apartments and drink with their friends or something. Lodges take place on Friday and Saturday nights. People go out to the apartments on Thursdays or go downtown to a club. People often go out other nights of the week as well if they don't have too much work to do. As far as Greek life, it is pretty important for guys to be in a frat, but sororities don't really matter. A lot of girls are in them, but it doesn't make that much of an impact on a girls social life.

Greek Organizations are really popular on our campus as well as sports. People party Thursday through Saturday like any other school. The dating scene isn't to big since the school is so small. The dorms are nice, compare to some of the schools I have visited. The laundry is FREE!!! I have left my dorm room open a couple times on ACCIDENT, but our campus has an honor code, and have not had any of my things taking a way. In fact, many students leave their items on the desks in the Library to go eat or whatever, and return to every object in its place. So I nevered worried about my things getting stolen by someone. (yet I still wouldn't leave my dorm room unlock on purpsoe lol). I'm not a big drinker myself so I constantly look for things to do that doesn't involve drinking. There's always parties on campus and off campus (alcohol is usually present) but you can ignore drinking it and just dance, talk, etc. The best activity to me is hanging out with my group of girl friends either watching a movie or going out to eat! Our school also has a resturant that have Kareoke nights and our library rent out movies. We also have movie showing in the Pier ( a student center building) that show movies that just left the movie theatre, but haven't made it on DVD yet. For instance, I saw Bourne Ultimatum weeks before it made it to Blackbuster!

WILL is really big. Greek life is half and half... you won't be left out if you don't join, nor will you be shunned if you do. Community service is pretty big. People mostly party on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and drink heavily when they do, but there's always other stuff to do... including free movies in the Pier.

Most people go out on the weekends. Everything is done on campus. There are lodge parties which are fun, especially as a freshman. A lot of people just hook up at these parties. People will generally have fun at parties. Beer is free which is nice. In general, Richmond studies hard and parties hard.

Partying is kept to Thursday, Friday, and Saturday usually. Those with a heavier workload will go out less, and those with less of a load might go out more during the week. Typically students are busy with a lot of work during weeknights though. The main social scene is definitely the fraternities. They throw all of the big parties, socials, and formals. The campus does provide on-campus movies and other events on the weekends for those that do not wish to drink, but they have low attendance. There isn't much transportation off campus into Richmond, but I have a car. When I go off campus I usually go out to eat and to a movie. Otherwise most students only go off campus if there is a shuttle to a club downtown on a Thursday night.

There are no certain organizations/clubs/groups that are more popular than others. Students could leave their dorm room doors open if they wish to, because our school goes by a strict honor code that involves no cheating or stealing and generally everyone abides by it. Athletic events are not too popular here, we even get bribed to go to them. Going to listen to guest speakers or seeing theater shows is moderately important because some professors offer extra credit or students might just be interested in the topic. The dating scene is alright, but if you're not into preppy types then you've got no business here. If you are awake at 2am on a Tuesday you would probably either be doing your homework with everyone else or driving down to the local gas station Sheetz to get some food. There are some traditions that happen each year here. At the beginning of the year all the freshman girls put on white dresses and write themselves a letter to read at the end of their senior year about their experience from the first few weeks of school, and the guys do something similar as well. A couple of weeks before finals there is an event called Pig Roast which is apprantly a huge deal (still don't really get why but whatever). There is a tradition of Ring Dance for junior girls, and some other traditions which I can't remember the rest. You can find people partying here every single day. I don't know how they do it but they manage. During the weekends the parties are either at the university apartments where the seniors and juniors live, or at the fraternity lodges on campus. Fraternities and sororities are not that huge of a deal here, if you are not in one you can still end up being best friends with people who are in one since they do not live separately. If you are not into drinking there are other activities which you could do such as movie nights in the commons or go somewhere in town. Off campus there are plenty of things to do museums, parks, malls; pretty much anything.

Social life is FUNNNNN FUN FUN here. There's always something to do for both those who like alcohol and those who do not. Weekends are fun. Frats and sororities aren't too too important to me, but I guess they're fun for some. There's great shopping off campus too!

Either you're Greek or you're on a sports team. Everyone does some sort of extracurricular. Fun that way. I'm a heavy drinker so I party from Thursday through Saturday and then again on Tuesday. Pig Roast is like St. Patty's Day part 2. Good event although the Admin is trying to shut it down or make it mad weak.

A lot of greek life activites. Mostly stay on campus. Drinnking