Student Life
The Student Government of Marian University (SGMU) is actively involved with campus events such as homecoming and the fall festival. Intramural sports are popular, especially basketball, flag football, and ultimate frisbee. The campus recently renovated its dining hall and built a new music building. Students perform plays and other theatrical performances, marching band, and a speech team which won the state championship and placed 10th in Division I at the national forensics championship in 2010. The speech team travels to nearly 12 tournaments each year, plus a week-long trip to the National Forensic Association’s Individual Events Tournament in April. At tournaments, students compete in a variety of events such as impromptu speaking, persuasive speaking, and dramatic interpretation. On February 20, 2010, the speech team claimed first place over-all at the state tournament. From 2004 until 2011, Marian University was home to the Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre, a semi-professional community theatre located on campus.
There are nearly 30 student run clubs and organizations at Marian University, including College Mentors for Kids, Pax Christi (peace and justice), Society of Human Resource Management (business), Marian University Student Nurses’ Association (MUSNA) (nursing), Kappa Delta Pi, and the Green Life club (general).
Marian University has the highest percentage (21.6) of minority students on campus of any college or university in Indiana, with the exception of Martin University, which is historically a black institution.
The university also has attached to it, though not on the campus property, a college seminary for Catholic seminarians, operated by the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Approximately 20-30 young men, who are also Marian students, live at the seminary and receive formation there.
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