Editing University of Chicago (section)

== Student life ==<!-- This section is linked to from Template:UChicago. If you change this section heading, make sure to update that temlate as well. -->
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible" ; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Student body composition as of May 10, 2025
|-
! Race and ethnicity<ref>{{Cite web |title=School Profile {{!}} College Scorecard |url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school?144050-University-of-Chicago |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=collegescorecard.ed.gov |language=en}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type="number" |Total
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| [[Non-Hispanic whites|White]]
|align=right| {{bartable|31|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
| [[Asian Americans|Asian]]
|align=right| {{bartable|20|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
| [[Foreign national]]
|align=right| {{bartable|16|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]]
|align=right| {{bartable|17|%|2||background:green}}
|-
| Other{{efn|Other consists of [[Multiracial Americans]] & those who prefer to not say.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|9|%|2||background:brown}}
|-
| [[African Americans|Black]]
|align=right| {{bartable|7|%|2||background:mediumblue}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type="number" |[[Economic diversity]]
|-
| [[American lower class|Low-income]]{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal [[Pell grant]] intended for low-income students.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|14|%|2||background:red}}
|}

=== Student organizations ===<!-- This section is linked to from Template:UChicago. If you change this section heading, make sure to update that temlate as well. -->
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Students at the University of Chicago operate more than 400 clubs and organizations known as Recognized Student Organizations (RSOs).<ref name="activities">{{cite web|title=Student Activities|publisher=University of Chicago Office of College Admissions|year=2008|access-date=June 27, 2009|url=https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/studentlife/activities/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090510055415/http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/studentlife/activities/|archive-date=May 10, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="rsodatabase" /> These include cultural and religious groups, academic clubs and teams, and common-interest organizations.<ref name="rsodatabase">{{cite web|title=UChicago Student Activities Database|access-date=June 27, 2009|url=https://studentactivities.uchicago.edu/php/public/search.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609210431/https://studentactivities.uchicago.edu/php/public/search.php|archive-date=June 9, 2010}}</ref> Among notable student organizations are the nation's longest continuously running student film society [[Doc Films]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://docfilms.org/about/ |access-date=2025-05-09 |website=docfilms.org}}</ref><ref name="FilmNews">{{cite journal |author=Educational Film Library Association, American Film Center |year=1950 |title=Film News |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAsdAAAAMAAJ |publisher=Film News Co. |volume=11–13 |pages=628 |quote=At the University of Chicago the Documentary Film Group, probably the oldest US film society, has been operating continuously...since 1932.}}</ref> the organizing committee for the [[University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt]], and the weekly student newspaper ''[[The Chicago Maroon]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chicago Maroon |url=https://chicagomaroon.com/ |access-date=2025-05-09 |website=Chicago Maroon}}</ref>[[File:Reynoldsclub.JPG|thumb|left|upright=0.9|The university's Reynolds Club, the student center]]
==== Student government ====
All recognized student organizations are funded by [[The University of Chicago Student Government]]. Student Government consists of graduate and undergraduate students elected to represent members from their respective academic units.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Student Government {{!}} Center for Leadership and Involvement {{!}} The University of Chicago |url=https://leadership.uchicago.edu/get-involved/student-government/ |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=leadership.uchicago.edu}}</ref> It is led by an executive committee, chaired by a president with the assistance of two vice presidents (one for administration and the other for student life) who are elected together as a slate by the student body each spring. {{As of|2025}}, the Undergraduate Student Government annual budget was greater than $2.5&nbsp;million.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mission |url=https://www.uchicagocollegecouncil.com/mission |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Undergraduate Student Government |language=en-US}}</ref>

==== Fraternities and sororities ====

{{As of|2019}}, there were more than 20 Greek organizations operating on campus.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=Maroon |title=Sororities and Fraternities at UChicago |url=https://chicagomaroon.com/27132/news/greek-life-uchicago/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Chicago Maroon}}</ref> In 2017, approximately 20 to 25 percent of students were members of fraternities or sororities.<ref name="frats">{{Cite magazine|last=Golus|first=Carrie|url=http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0210/features/geeks.html|magazine=University of Chicago Magazine|date=October 2002|volume=95|issue=1|title=Geeks Go Greek|access-date=January 10, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209072901/http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0210/features/geeks.html|archive-date=December 9, 2006|url-status=live}}</ref> Numbers published in 2007 by the student activities office stated that one in ten undergraduates participated in Greek life.<ref name="Greek">{{cite web |title=Greek Life On Campus |year=2007 |publisher=University of Chicago Office of Registered Clubs and Student Activities |url=http://studentactivities.uchicago.edu/involved/greek.shtml |access-date=March 8, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211235147/http://studentactivities.uchicago.edu/involved/greek.shtml |archive-date=February 11, 2007 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

=== Student housing ===
[[File:Blue, orange and pink.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.65|alt=An orange brick building with pink window frames and a blue roof|[[Max Palevsky Residential Commons]] is a dormitory completed in 2001 designed by postmodernist Mexican architect [[Ricardo Legorreta]].]]
{{main|Housing at the University of Chicago}}

On-campus undergraduate students at the University of Chicago participate in a [[house system]] in which each student is assigned to one of the university's seven [[residence hall]] buildings and to a smaller community within their residence hall called a "house". There are 39 houses, with an average of 70 students in each house.<ref name="collegehousing">{{cite web|url=http://housing.uchicago.edu/houses_houses/|title=Houses and Halls|publisher=The University of Chicago|access-date=September 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922050142/http://housing.uchicago.edu/houses_houses/|archive-date=September 22, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> The houses are named after former professors and other historical figures in the university community, such as [[Eugene Fama]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-09-11 |title=University announces names for seven new College residential houses {{!}} University of Chicago News |url=https://news.uchicago.edu/story/university-announces-names-seven-new-college-residential-houses |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=news.uchicago.edu |language=en}}</ref>

In the past, only first years were required to live in on-campus housing, but starting with the Class of 2023, students are required to live in housing for the first two years of enrollment.<ref name="housing2">{{cite web|url=https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/studentlife/housing.shtml|title=Housing and Dining|publisher=University of Chicago Office of College Admissions|access-date=September 10, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508132739/http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/studentlife/housing.shtml|archive-date=May 8, 2009}}</ref> About 60% of undergraduate students live on campus.<ref name="housing2" />

For graduate students, the university owns and operates 28 apartment buildings near campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reo.uchicago.edu/graduate_housing/index.shtml|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721041957/http://reo.uchicago.edu/graduate_housing/index.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 21, 2012|title=About Graduate Housing|access-date=July 24, 2009}}</ref>

=== Traditions ===
[[File:Scavrace1.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|right|Qwazy Quad Rally, [[University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt|Scav Hunt]] 2005]]
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{{Main|Doc Films|University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt}}

Every May since 1987, the University of Chicago has held the [[University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt]], in which teams of students compete to obtain notoriously esoteric items from a list.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/05/050505.scavhunt.shtml|publisher=University of Chicago News Office|access-date=June 13, 2005|title=World's largest Scavenger Hunt begins in Chicago|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050507235316/http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/05/050505.scavhunt.shtml|archive-date=May 7, 2005|url-status=live}}</ref> Every January, the university holds a week-long winter festival, Kuviasungnerk/Kangeiko (Kuvia), which includes early morning exercise routines and fitness workshops.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Producer |first=Adam Harrington Web |last2=Chicago |first2=CBS Chicago Adam Harrington is a web producer at CBS |last3=Harrington |first3=where he first arrived in January 2006 Read Full Bio Adam |last4=Producer |first4=Todd Feurer Web |last5=Newsradio |first5=CBS Chicago Todd Feurer is a web producer for CBS Chicago He has previously written for WBBM |last6=WUIS-FM |last7=Feurer |first7=the New City News Service Read Full Bio Todd |last8=Cramer |first8=Matthew |date=2025-01-16 |title=Kuvia, winter tradition at University of Chicago, canceled over student's arrest, suspension - CBS Chicago |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/kuvia-winter-tradition-university-of-chicago-canceled-protest/ |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The university also annually holds a carnival and concert called Summer Breeze<ref>{{Cite web |title=Major Activities Board |url=https://uchicagomab.com/ |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=Major Activities Board |language=en-US}}</ref> that hosts outside musicians and is home to [[Doc Films]], a student film society founded in 1932 that screens films nightly at the university.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://docfilms.org/about/ |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=docfilms.org}}</ref> Since 1946, the university has organized the [[Latke-Hamantash Debate]], which involves humorous discussions about the relative merits and meanings of [[latke]]s and [[hamantash]]en.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The University of Chicago Magazine |url=https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0512/features/puns.shtml |access-date=2025-05-08 |website=magazine.uchicago.edu}}</ref>