by Loup Garou » Wed, 11Sep07 05:02
When I was in college (OH.. so many years ago.... mid 80's), there were a LOT of things that any student, female or otherwise, could do at school.
Sports: Both inter-mural and inter-collegiate competitions were part of life. Those involved track and field, basketball, volley ball, swimming, baseball, softball, football, rugby, fencing (well... they fenced at my school... I lettered in it), and... just about anything else, depending on the school. And, of course, where there are sports, there are bands and cheerleaders.
Academics: Classes. Library. Debating societies. Teacher-student meetings (discussion of class performance, papers, tests). Tutors (one of my jobs as a student was a tutor in the English lab, helping students with problems writing papers for class).
Social: Greek fraternities and sororities (both academic and social... the social groups were far more popular), and not fraternal groups (Our school had a group called the Mutts who were an anti-fraternity fraternity). In the world of social fraternities and sororities, there is one time that most people fear -- hazing (the process of joining a frat/sor and all the shit a plebe has got to put up with to get in). There are 3 types of dorms at most universities -- male, female and co-ed (but co-ed was not really co-ed... males on one floor, females on another, ne'er the twain shall meet -- though it was fairly easy to get from floor to floor).
Places: Most schools have a student union (social gathering... with pool room, video games, big screen tv). Most have a theatre (as in stage, not big screen), a gym, an in-door olympic size swimming pool (with dressing rooms... lotta stories there), and... just about anything else. Many schools also have things like a student newspaper, radio station, tv station with student news...
The best way to think of a university is as a micro-city. They are kinda like Vatican City. How, you may ask. Vatican City is a city all by itself surrounded by a much larger city, Rome. The university is almost a city in its own right and, usually, surrounded by a regular city... like Harvard exists within Boston.
That is a lot of information and probably useless.... but... I am not really sure what you are after.