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=== 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>