A guide to extracurricular activities St. A’s students can join

Students can choose from over 60 active student clubs and organizations

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Saint Anselm College has a club for everyone, and we mean it. On campus, Saint Anselm has over 60 active student clubs and organizations. Whether you like to play sports, sing, speak another language, conduct scientific experiments, or create art—and want to meet new people in the process—there is a club for you.

For those who love the arts, the Abbey Players, the Choir, and Hint of Lime would be great places to start. The Abbey Players are entering their 68th season, beginning the year with student-directed Family Weekend Show, Seize the Day! If acting is not for you, the Players offer students excellent opportunities to participate in all phases of theatre production.

If you want to continue a sport from high school or want to try out something new, Saint Anselm has fifteen club sports currently and intramural sport opportunities available. Club sports include rugby, soccer, lacrosse, dance, field hockey, ultimate frisbee and more.

For those with a passion for journalistic or creative writing, The Saint Anselm Crier and Quatrain provide great opportunities to fuel it.

Olive Capone ’16, Vice President of the Quatrain, says, “Our goal is to highlight the creativity of Saint Anselm students, and the more input we have in terms of submissions and club participation, the better our magazine will be. Involvement can be as simple as contributing a submission or as deep as coming to our meetings and helping us out the publication together. We take students’ paintings, photographs, poems, and more and put them together into a beautiful magazine. We look forward to welcoming new members this fall!”

For those interested in the world of science, Probe and Scalpel Society and Chemistry Club will meet your needs.

“Probe and Scalpel Society seeks to help all students understand the relevance of science in everyday life,” says Teresa Samson ’17, president of Probe and Scalpel Society. “We go on nature walks, connect with career services and outside organizations to help with networking and grad school preparation, have movie nights, and bring in speakers to discuss their own careers. It’s an interactive way to learn about biology.”

Catherine Muldoon ’17, president of Chemistry Club, adds, “You don’t even have to be a science major to join Chemistry Club, you just need to want to make some friends and have some fun. We do fun activities that anyone would love like liquid nitrogen ice cream making and pizza parties around finals.”

If there is a club you want that Saint Anselm does not have, make one! Students of all ages make new clubs each year, and you can do so by scheduling a meeting with the SGA Secretary of Club Affairs.