Student Life
In accordance with its mission as a residential campus, there are over 100 student organizations that play an important role in the social scene at Angelo State. Some of these include National Greek Fraternities and Sororities, such as Lambda Chi Alpha, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Pi Kappa Alpha, Delta Zeta, and Sigma Kappa, as well as numerous academic and professional organizations, boards and councils, honor societies, religious organizations, special interest organizations, and intramural sports.
The Houston Harte University Center serves students' recreational and community needs. For student recreation, it offers multiple pool tables, ping pong tables, air hockey tables, ample couch and student meeting areas, as well as multiple large flat screen plasma televisions equipped with DirecTV and Xbox 360 game consoles for student use. Cuisine wise in addition to Roscoe's Bistro, a traditional university buffet serving the west side of campus, the University Center snack bar features stands offering pizza, Chinese cuisine, a salad bar, American grill food stand, as well as Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, and Blimpie Subs and Salads. It also houses the Student Credit Union, the Campus Bookstore, the Student Life Office, the Center for Student Involvement, Student Senate offices, the Non Traditional Students Lounge, The Multi-Cultural Center and the C.J. Davidson Conference Center.
The University Center for Human Performance features indoor basketball courts, four racquetball courts, an indoor elevated jogging track, an indoor rock climbing gym, hardwood floor multipurpose rooms for fitness/aerobic classes, locker rooms and shower facilities for student use, an indoor pool and a state of the art modern two story gym with large windows facing the out towards the university mall. The Junell Center
also has a large gym available primarily for student athletes but open to all ASU students. A Disc Golf course runs along the Mall and Memorial Oak Grove. For tennis players there are 12 tennis courts available across campus.
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