Organizations/sports clubs

Hello everyone! So as you can this posting will be about Organizations, aka Societies or Clubs, and Sports clubs. At Cornell we have clubfest, here it is called the Societies Fair. It happens during what is called Freshers week, aka the first week of classes. Like at Cornell, there are a ton of clubs at Warwick. They have just about anything you can think of and if they do not then you can easily make your own. Here is the link for the website listing all of them: www.warwicksu.com/societies.

If you go to the site, just click All societies under the societies heading. There are generally membership fees for every club and you do have to join the general SU club to join any societies listed. The cost this year was 10 pounds for the general membership and then it varied by each society. Some of the societies cost 5 pounds, some 3, and some are free. There are over 250 societies and they are broken up into different categories: Academic, Activities and Games, Campaigning, Cultural, Film and Media, Food and Drink, Hall Societies (which allow you to play sports with the people in your dorm against other dorms), Music Appreciation, Performance, Religious and Belief, and Welfare, Charity and Action. I am in 5 societies, which include Assassins Guild and Team America.

Assassins Guild is a society where members go around fake assassinating each other and the longest surviving player wins. Evidently the long version of this game can go on for 3-4 weeks. The premise during the long game is that you receive two targets and some details about them (nothing too personal) and then have to track them down on campus and fake assassinate them, generally by tapping them on the torso with your choice of mock weapon. Some examples of mock weapons include cardboard knives and swords, rubber chickens, toy water pistols, and stuffed animals. I do not know how much fun the long game is because it does not start till next week but I will post my progress. I was able to play a short version of the game and it was a lot of fun. I highly recommend joining it if it interests you.

Team America, I actually do not know much about yet. Evidently they organize socials for different holidays and events that are based on American culture. The examples I heard of included Frat parties and Thanksgiving. The latter I was especially excited about since I was afraid I would not be able to have it this year since obviously the Brittish do not celebrate it.

Now then on the Sports clubs. There are many Sports Clubs and teams available at Warwick. Examples of these include Aerobics, many forms of Martial Arts, Skydiving, Sailing, Ballroom Dance, Hockey (including ice hockey), and Lacrosse. I am actually in three sports clubs. They are Archery, Mountaineering, and Shotokan Karate. I will keep updated how those go, though I will say I got quite a workout from karate last Friday.

For a full list of offered sports clubs, click here. Be warned though that you will not definitely know what is being offered until the sports fair, because some are not offered every year.

On that note, I just realized that I may have signed up for too much but as long as I do not get behind, I should have a lot of fun.