Student Life
Winthrop's DiGiorgio Student Union Program Board has been ranked the best Program Board in the nation three times for the quality and variety of programming, including both lecturers and entertainers. The trade publication Campus Activities Magazine has named the university as having the "Best Campus Program" in the nation three times: 1995, 2002 and 2004. Winthrop is the only university in the nation to be on the ballot every year since this award was inaugurated in 1995.
In addition to completing the academic requirements of their chosen degree, full-time Winthrop undergraduates, in order to graduate, are required to attend three cultural events for every 20 semester hours. The university maintains an extensive calendar of events that qualify as being "cultural events".
Cultural events are typically on a wide variety of subjects, and have included in the past:
- Films (both in English and foreign languages)
- Plays
- Concerts (Chamber, orchestral, and on the university's Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ)
- Sculpture and art exhibitions
- Technology Lectures
The university has over 150 student organizations. It has eight campus ministries, 14 club sports teams, 18 clubs associated with an academic department, 15 Greek organizations, 16 Honor Societies, 38 special interest clubs and groups, 21 professional groups, 12 non-ministry religious groups, seven university representatives, seven residence hall councils, and ten service groups.
In addition, the university hosts many events that are available free of charge or at a reduced rate for full-time students. Events typically include concerts, shows, comedy routines and other forms of student-oriented entertainment. One of these events is the annual Big Man on Campus Pageant, an all-male beauty contest. This event is organized by Delta Zeta Sorority to raise money for their philanthropy, the speech and hearing-impaired. Another Winthrop tradition, the Kappa Sigma oyster roast, is a social event held annually, welcoming all new freshman and transfer students as well as returning students to the start of each fall semester; with record breaking attendance exceeding 1300 students.
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