Student Life
Susquehanna University offers more than 100 student organizations, including a variety of religious life organizations and cultural interest groups. Examples include such international organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, SU Paranormal, and GeoClub. The performing arts are represented through several theater, dance and music programs. The theater department also hosts a student-run play each semester.
The university's student-run newspaper, The Crusader, covers campus events, activities, and athletics, and provides a forum for the opinions of members of the campus community.
WQSU, The Pulse, is the college's 12,000-watt station, making it the third most powerful college station and the tenth most powerful non-commercial station in Pennsylvania. Broadcasts can be heard at a 70-mile radius, which is approximately one-third of the state of Pennsylvania. The station is operated by students, faculty and staff as well as community volunteers, and features a wide variety of music and talk programs including regularly scheduled Associated Press news broadcasts.
Susquehanna's on-campus, student-run night club is TRAX, which offers a stage for live bands, comedians and other performers as well as a dance floor, bar, pool tables, an outside patio, and a DJ booth. TRAX also hosts benefit concerts for different philanthropies and Greek organizations.
Susquehanna University also has Charlie's Coffeehouse, a student-run café on campus, named after the university's benefactor, Charles Degenstein. Students work as baristas, while the management team consists of five students who are responsible for the coffee shop's finances, marketing, programming, stocking, and managerial duties. This non-alcoholic venue offers a variety of programming every night of the week, much of which centers on student performances or events. Charlie's also works in partnership with the student activities committee to bring in outside entertainers and host movies before they are released to the general public.
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