News Topic: Student Life Archive

Get to Know New People at the OCL Roommate Mixer

Everyone’s heard a roommate horror story and while listening to them can be fun, no one wants to live one. If you want to avoid a rough roommate experience, check out Off Campus Life’s Roommate Mixer on Thursday, Novembe

FSL Resume Workshop: Add to and Improve Your Resume

Are you stressed about life after graduation? Are you someone who wants to learn more about how your experience at JMU can contribute to finding job opportunities? Fraternity and Sorority Life has a great event for you!

Go Back to the 70s with UPB Bingo

Looking for a good, groovy time? If so, be sure to go to UPB Bingo on Saturday, November 2nd from 8-10 PM in TDU!

Learn to Improve Your Close, Personal Relationships

On October 30th, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in SSC 4046, the Dux Leadership Center is hosting the Improving Close, Personal Relationships workshop to provide the right structure during college for students to go forth after co

Green Dot: Everyone Has to Do Something

If you’ve walked around campus this past month, you may have seen something about Green Dot. But what is Green Dot, exactly? Green Dot is an on-campus initiative that is working to change the culture surrounding power-ba

Performers Deliver Laughs and Realness at the UPB and SOGIE Drag Show

Festival Ballroom was a little bit shinier than normal on Saturday, October 5th. UPB and Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (SOGIE) put on a Drag Show featuring the glamorous drag queens of Rhinestone Pr

Get Crazy in the Commons

As JMU’s campus expands, the Commons in between D‑hall and Madison Union provides a central location to bring the student body together. Student organizations, fraternities, and sororities use the space throughout the ye

MAD4U Promotes JMU Spirit with Their Football Watch Parties

The JMU campus always feels a little too quiet on fall weekends when the football team has an away game. Home games bring spirit and excitement to the student body, and MAD4U believes that away games should be able to do

Daniel Franzese Taps into Mean Girls Nostalgia for Comedy Night

As students flooded into Grafton, the iconic mantra “on Wednesdays we wear pink” seemed to echo. UPB members were all decked out in pink shirts in honor of Daniel Franzese, known widely for his role as “Damien” in the no

UPB Updates Movie Nights

 If you love movies, then we’ve got some good news for you. UPB has updated their weekly movie nights at Grafton Stovell Theater. Students and staff members can now see movies for free if they present a valid JACard at t

Combat the Sophomore Slump with Second Year Success

Are you going through a sophomore slump? If so, think about applying for the Second Year Success Program through the Office of Off Campus Life and the Office of Career and Academic Planning! JMU has a wide range of r

Mad4U Wants to Know: What’s the TEA?

Marginalized peoples are often misunderstood. Through this misunderstanding, they often find themselves further outcast from the community. To combat misunderstanding, Mad4U is Shades of Pride and the Black Student Allia

Learn to Find Peace of Mind

Once you have calmed your mind, use your spare energy at Let’s Dance Dukes every Thursday from 12-1 in the commons, or the third-floor lounge if its raining.          Academic Advisor at the Hart School of Hospitality,

Find Your Place at Madison Union’s Open House!

Have lunch with us and get to know your Union on September 5 from 11am to 2pm! There will be food throughout the building including crab dip, nachos, fruits and veggies, cheese and crackers, spinach dip, ice cream, brown

Quieting the mind

Contemplative practices are ways to meet students' stress management needs in an often too-busy world.

Learn How to Take Charge with JMU’s Presidential Leadership Academy

Creating an impact on campus is no easy task, but those who succeed do not go unrecognized. Each year, JMU hosts the Presidential Leadership Academy, a week-long seminar that allows students who have shown their leadersh

Can’t Believe It: T-Pain Takes Over Convo

The end of the academic year at JMU traditionally carries a lot of stress. The heavy workload of classes, impending graduation, and finding summer jobs pile up and create anxiety amongst the community. As the semester wi

The JMU Community is Celebrated in the 2019 All Together One Awards

On the sunny Spring afternoon of April 9, Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society (ODK) presented the All Together One Awards to their 2019 recipients. The honors were presented to a lively crowd and many passersby on the newl

FSL Egg Hunt on the Row: A Harrisonburg Event

Looking for a fun, kid friendly, and totally free spring activity? Come down to Greek Row on JMU’s campus for the annual Fraternity and Sorority Life Egg Hunt on the Row this Thursday April 18th! The sororities and frate

Accentuate Greek Week With Greek Sing

On Sunday, April 14th Fraternity and Sorority Life is hosting a charity event with choreographed singing and dancing by Greek Organizations in the Convocation Center from 5:00pm to 9:00pm.Proceeds will go to The Arc of H

Cure Your Spring Fever with Madipalooza!

Spring is here and so is our excitement to get outside! School maybe getting busy, but that doesn’t mean we have to waste all this good weather. So leave your winter blues at home and grab all your friends and festival g

Browse Professional Clothing at Madison Union’s Career Closet

Having trouble navigating how to present yourself in the professional world? Don’t have appropriate clothes for those job interviews? Job searching can be a stressful process for college students, but Madison Union is he

Southview Tragedy Unites Community

On Thursday March 28, the JMU community was shaken to its core as a five-alarm structural fire broke out at the Southview Apartment Complex. While the Harrisonburg Fire and Police Departments were quick to arrive, the fl

Escape Deep Sea Danger at UPBreak Free!

Do you like mysteries? Do you feel like challenging yourself with an elaborate puzzle? On Saturday, March 30th, from 4-10PM, UPB is hosting an escape room competition on Festival Lawn! If you’d like to compete, sign up o

Dux Leadership Presents the Technology Advantage: Tool or Tyrant?

What comes to mind when you think of leadership? Often, larger than life figures leading great armies or nations through turbulent times can cloud the portrait of what leadership entails at the individual level. Dux Lead

Paint Some Happy Little Trees with Bob Ross!

This Saturday, March 23rd, from 9 to 11pm, UPB is hosting a Bob Ross painting session in Festival Lower Drum! If you’re a fan of his work or just his encouraging, playful attitude, you need to be there! Even if you don’t

Rumble Down Under: The Fight for Madipalooza

Madipalooza, one of the biggest yearly events at JMU, provides a space where everyone, no matter age or background, can come together and unite over their love of music. For such a high-profile event, how could anyone po

FSL Gets Real About Hazing

Evelyn Piazza and Debbie Debrick are two members of the Anti-Hazing Coalition, a group that aims to promote anti-hazing legislation across the country. Evelyn, who lost her son Tim to hazing in 2017, turns her grief into

2nd Annual Style & Tradition T-Shirt Design Contest!

Show off your creative skills for Madison Union, and score some cash in the process! Using three colors or less, submit your digital or hand-drawn t-shirt idea to be considered for Madison Union’s second annual Style &