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Football and basketball, of course, are very popular. I play soccer for the Men's club team. We're working to become NCAA sanctioned, but right now we play in the NIRSA league. It's a very competitive league and is big. I don't know, never lived in the dorms. Athletic events involve the entire community, which is good. Dating scene is hot. I've known most for years, but I have a lot of friends whom I've met working and going to class. Imagine that. I am finishing the paper at The Daily Utah Chronicle. There are a lot... Parties happen a lot, depends where you live. Eh, I've never thought to join one, but they're popular. Partied, of course. You can go all around town. There are plenty of things to do. Movies and parties.

You have got to be an idiot not to find something to do here in Utah. We have a night life with clubs and concerts, to snowboarding and hiking. There is so much to do here and its usually cheap or free.

Most popular groups? I don't know. My groups? I guess I'm kind of a neurology geek, I work in a neurology lab and hang out with other science and neurology majors. I live in Gateway and people are constantly partying, its a bit too noisy for my liking; I don't care much about fraternities or sororities; I hung out with some friends lat weekend, Saturday night I studied biology and chem. I don't do much off campus besides hang out with my family and friends since I live on campus.

As a Christian in the Mormon state of Utah, I spend most of my time involved with the various Christian groups on campus. My favorite group by far is Ute-Nited (www.utenited.com), although Cru, a.k.a. Campus Crusade (www.utahcru.com), is an excellent group as well. Both groups provide excellent fellowship with other Christians on campus, and a means to pursue your faith and dig deeper into what it really means to be a follower of Jesus.

I'm a student leader at the Newman Center. This is a Catholic Group on campus. We help plan service projects, student activities at the church, and the newman center has 2 trips that students can go on durring spring break and fall break. I don't live in the dorms but I have been in them a few times and there are always doors open but usually there are ppl in their rooms at the time. Athletics are popular: football and gymnastics are popular to attend. My closest friends I met at Newman Center functions or at the "Crimson Nights" (a party put on by the university at the student Union.) The dorms have different things that go on on different floors, they have movie nights and sometimes go to the union to go bowlng or play pool. We have trax that picks up right by the dorms and can take you downtown where there is a multitude of things to do off campus (outdoor mall, movie theater, ice skating rink, library, coffee shops, etc.)

i am most involved in the residents halls. and NO most residents in the halls do not leave their door open. Ther are the few that have their door open and willing to get to know other people though. i meet my closest friends when i go to social events or parties with other friends i know. frats and sororities are important for the non working white straight male and female. BUT are just an anoyance to anyone else. as a white gay male i know i will not be harmed if i go to a frat party or event, but the issure is i dont feel comfortable. i feel like i wont be accepted especially because in my experiences i cant tell you how many frat guys i have heard say "thats so gay." last weekend i cheered at the basketball game and hung out with my boyfriend. then went swimming with my gay swim team, worked, and did homework.

I lived in the dorms until just recently, and it is not the thing to do if you're looking to build a social life...unless you're a perpetually drunken Freshman looking to get groped by the football team. This may sound outrageous, but so were my experiences with my roommates and pretty much everybody in my building.

- The most important group around campus is ASUU (our Student Government) and UPC (which plans monthly parties on campus). - A group I'm affiliated with, Student Interfaith Council, specializes in braking down common walls differnet religious groups might put against each other and brings different people together--all so others can understand more about their faiths. We even attend each other's services. - Besides the typical--movies, dining-- there are clubs in Salt Lake City that outlaw drinking, a Planetarium, various gardens and parks, many shops and malls, etc.