Studies show that students who participate in cocurricular programs like these earn higher grade point averages, graduate in shorter periods of time, and develop essential skills that employers are looking for. Plan to get involved! For more information, visit our website at www.sa.mtu.edu/stulife or call 906-487-2998. Community ServiceLocation: 112 Memorial Union Community service is dedicated to helping those involved with doing volunteer work for the campus and community. COMPASS/First-Year ProgramsLocation: Wadsworth Hall G28 COMPASS (Center for Mentoring, Parents, and Academic Student Success) offers students and their families programs, services, and opportunities that help them succeed. COMPASS coordinates programs such as Orientation, the Peer Network, Learning Communities, and the Academic Showcase. We also offer the courses UN1000 Frameworks for Success and UN1010 Creating Your Success that focus on study tips and planning for your future. Individual assistance is available if you have any academic or personal concerns. Greek AffairsLocation: Memorial Union 112 Website: www.greek.mtu.edu Greek Affairs is dedicated to assisting students involved in the twenty-three social fraternities and sororities on campus. For a listing of Greek organizations, click here. Greek Affairs promotes scholarship, service, brotherhood and sisterhood, campus involvement, and leadership. Residence HallsLocation: 155 Wadsworth Website: www.housing.mtu.edu The Department of Residence Life sponsors programs that help students get the most from their out-of-classroom life, and can help with academic problems as well. Residence hall groups participate in intramural athletics, hold their own social events, and get involved in campus-wide events such as Homecoming and Winter Carnival. Full-time staff live in each hall and keep regular office hours. These professionals provide information and help students deal with academic, personal, and emotional problems. Student resident assistants (RAs) aid and advise the residents of the individual "houses" of the hall. RAs are full-time students selected for their leadership and maturity. Their MTU experience prepares them to answer many questions and help other students. They also share responsibility for maintaining a suitable living and learning environment in the halls. Residents are encouraged to talk to their resident assistant or other Residence Life staff when they have questions or problems. The University Residency Requirement states that all single undergraduate students live in a University residence hall during their first year at Michigan Tech. For more information on your room, services, safety and security, and policies, see the Residence Hall Handbook, which is issued to all residents and is on this Website: www.housing.mtu.edu. For additional University policy information, see Student Rights and Responsibilities in the University Community on this Website: www.studentaffairs.mtu.edu. Campus Mailing AddressesYou'll get your mail faster and more reliably if you use these official mailing addresses for the University residence halls: PERSON'S NAME ROOM NUMBER (EAST OR WEST) MCNAIR HALL 1801 TOWNSEND DRIVE HOUGHTON MI 49931-1195 PERSON'S NAME ROOM NUMBER DOUGLASS HOUGHTON HALL 1700 TOWNSEND DRIVE HOUGHTON MI 49931-1194 PERSON'S NAME ROOM NUMBER EAST WADSWORTH HALL 1701 TOWNSEND DRIVE HOUGHTON MI 49931-1196 PERSON'S NAME ROOM NUMBER WEST WADSWORTH HALL 1703 TOWNSEND DRIVE HOUGHTON MI 49931-1193 Student OrganizationsLocation: Memorial Union 106 For a complete list of registered student organizations and officers, please contact the Student Organizations Office, MUB 106. Student GovernmentContact: Student Organizations Secretary Services: The student government is the representative organization of the MTU student body. It consists of student government executive officers and advisors from student affairs. The student government gives the students' views to the University and implements programs benefiting students. The student government collects and distributes the student activity fee, which funds most of the student-sponsored activities on campus. Many of these activities are sponsored by student government subsidiaries. Most registered student organizations can become USG subsidiaries and receive funding. Budget packets are available during spring semester. Student government representatives serve on University committees and organizations, and investigate issues of student concern. The USG may offer charter bus service to downstate Michigan cities during breaks. USG offers health insurance, conference room reservations, and photocopying and fax services. Student government committees work on areas of student concern, such as safety, personal rights, tuition increases, and the quality of teaching at MTU. Student government also publishes the weekly "Off-Campus Housing List," which is available outside Memorial Union 106 and from the USG website at www.aux.mtu.edu/usghousing. Academic/Professional Organizations
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Tech TraditionsK-Day
Tech SongsFight Tech Fight (audio)We'll fight, Tech, fight Engineers, Hail Alma MaterHail alma mater; hats off to you. Copper Country AnthemI dream of that night with you, The "Copper Country Anthem" is played at the intermission between the second and third periods of all home hockey games. Everyone in the stands locks arms and sways to the Pep Band's rousing rendition. The song is actually "The Blue Skirt Waltz." |
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Michigan Tech Student Handbook 2007-08 | http://www.mtu.edu |
Classes are cancelled at noon on Friday of the first week of fall semester so that students and faculty can celebrate Keweenaw Day (K-Day)—a celebration of the beautiful Keweenaw Peninsula, which is home to Michigan Tech. Everyone heads out to McLain State Park on Lake Superior for a day of fun, sun, music, games, and food.
The Parade of Nations and Multicultural Festival, held in September, celebrate diversity with a colorful parade of flag-bearing students, who represent eighty nations, and also includes a celebration of food, culture, music, and dance.
Few homecoming festivities on other campuses can rival Michigan Tech's for zaniness and all-around fun. Besides the usual Homecoming Queen and football game, there is a Hobo Parade. The parade features cars that can barely run, thanks to some customizing by the students. The students are also dressed in their worst clothes to go along with the theme. Other Homecoming activities include a cardboard boat race, three-legged race, clothing strip relay, and a tailgate party before the big game.
During a beautiful fall weekend, parents and families are invited to the Copper Country to explore campus, attend some cultural events, cheer the Husky football team to victory, cruise the Portage Canal, and tour the Keweenaw Peninsula as it is lit afire with the rich colors of Mother Nature. It is a weekend that will be filled with fond memories of Michigan Tech and family fun.
No MTU tradition can match Winter Carnival for national fame and overall involvement. The Winter Carnival started in 1922 and has grown to become one of the largest annual winter festivals in the nation. It features huge, intricate snow statues on campus and in the local area; a home hockey series against a tough WCHA team; men's and women's varsity basketball; skits, broomball, and other sports; sleigh rides; a Winter Carnival Queen; and more midwinter fun than you'd think was possible! Winter Carnival is held in early February with students getting two days off from classes.
On a Friday afternoon late in spring semester, students end the academic year and welcome warmer weather by engaging in activities such as pie-throwing at professors, mud volleyball (better known as oozeball), and listening to rock bands at the Spring Fling festival. Various student organizations participate in this event with food and entertainment for a campus community eager to relax and have fun before the serious business of final exams begins.