Living Groups
Special-Interest Houses
Special-interest houses are student-directed communities based on academic or co-curricular interests. Students learn self-governance, engage in civic responsibility, share knowledge, and sponsor programs focused on a theme they agree upon as a group. These communities are a reflection of the current student body, and students often come together and seek permission to create a special-interest living arrangement.
Scholar Houses
About 20 students live together, by invitation, in McKelvy House, and about 10 reside in the Reeder Street Fellowship House. Students in these houses share a common desire for active learning outside of the classroom, to live with like-minded peers who thrive on intellectual discourse. Members take turns organizing weekly discussions about timely topics and plan field trips.
Specialty Houses
There are also off-campus houses devoted to students involved in the Arts Society, Hispanic Society of Lafayette, Newman Association, and Hillel.
Sororities and Fraternities
Six sororities and four fraternities are recognized on campus, each with its own house. All are affiliated with national Greek-letter organizations. Their role is to enhance the social, intellectual, and cultural life of the campus while upholding their founding values of brotherhood/sisterhood, scholarship, leadership, and service.
Student Blogs
- M is for Meow May 14, 2013Thousands of undomesticated, stray cats roam around China every day. They are homeless, mangy, and sad, except for this one little gem, Meow. Meow is a cat that lives outside our apartment building. When we got here in February she was just a couple of months old, a tiny orange kitten. Without fail Meow was […]Megan Goodman
- The Land of the 20 Dollar Bill May 12, 2013This weekend was by far my favorite weekend of the semester. I traveled with 4 friends, 2 from the U.S. and 2 from Germany, to Guilin, China, for a once in a lifetime experience. We were all very excited to travel to Guilin because we heard it was China’s heaven, and China’s heaven it really […]Megan Goodman
- Spring has sprung in Saxony May 10, 2013Spring came fast here in Dresden. It seemed like one week there was snow on the ground and the next the crocuses were blooming and the trees were starting to bud. My favorite part about spring is being able to comfortably go biking here. I ride to school every morning, and there is actually bike […]Helen