List of social activities at Durham University

This is intended to be a complete list of articles detailing clubs, societies and other common leisure activities associated with Durham University.

Approximately 130 student clubs and organizations run on Durham's campus.^[1]

Contents 1 Sports 1.1 General 1.2 Clubs 1.3 Rowing 1.3.1 College boat clubs 2 Academic societies 3 Drama societies 4 Student Unions 5 Miscellaneous societies 6 Leisure activities 7 References 8 External links

Sports

General

• the Doxbridge Tournament, a sporting competition between Durham University, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.^[2]
• Durham University Athletic Union, a student-run organisation responsible for sport at Durham University. In 2006, the Athletic Union was rebranded "Team Durham" to signify a more modern approach to sport at Durham. In contrast to most British universities, it is a separate organisation with the status of a students' union, rather than a part of Durham Students' Union, the primary student representative body at Durham University.
• the Palatinate, Durham's equivalent of the University Sporting Blue. Famous recipients of a Full Palatinate include cricketer Nasser Hussain, triple jumper Jonathan Edwards and rugby player Phil de Glanville^[3].

Clubs

• Association football:
  • DUAFC
• Rugby union:
  • Durham University Rugby Union Football Club, previous members have included England captains Phil de Glanville and Will Carling.

Rowing

• Durham University Boat Club
• Northumbrian Water University Boat Race
• Durham Regatta
• Novice Cup^[4] This was known as the Hatfield cup until 2003 when Durham College Rowing took over the organising of the event^[5].
• Senate Cup^[6]
• Pennant Series^[7]
• Admirals Regatta^[8]
• Henley Royal Regatta

College boat clubs

Blade	Club
	Collingwood College Boat Club
	Grey College Boat Club
	Hatfield College Boat Club
	Hild Bede Boat Club
	Josephine Butler College Boat Club
	St Aidan's College Boat Club
	St Chad's College Boat Club
	St Cuthbert's Society Boat Club
	St John's College Boat Club
	St Mary's College Boat Club
	Trevelyan College Boat Club
	University College Boat Club
	Ustinov Boat Club
	Van Mildert Boat Club
	George Stephenson College Boat Club
	John Snow College Boat Club
	Durham University Boat Club

Academic societies

• Durham University Law Society

Drama societies

• DULOG, Durham University Light Opera Group
• Durham Student Theatre, the overall union of theatrical societies, comprising 25 individual theatre companies
• Durham Drama Festival
• Comedyfest, a week long comedy theatre event with sketches from the Cambridge Footlights and the Oxford Revue
• The Durham Revue, Durham University's improv society

Student Unions

• Durham Students' Union, the Durham-wide federal union
• Durham Union Society, where public debates and addresses take place and training for competitive debating is carried out

Miscellaneous societies

• Purple Radio, the student radio station
• Durham21, an independent student website, founded in 2001, which has won the NUS Website of the Year Award in five of the last six years and is also the current holder.^[9].
• Palatinate, Durham's independent student run fortnightly newspaper, has been continually published since 1948
• the fun and beautiful journal, Durham's arts journal
• Mostly Harmless, student satirical publication
• The Grove, student literary publication

Leisure activities

• Formal Hall, a formal dinner in a college

References

1. ^ "Durham Student's Union: Find a Society". DSU. http://www.dsu.org.uk/pages/societies/find_a_society/. Retrieved 2009-02-05. 
2. ^ "Doxbridge". Sweet Chariot Ltd. http://www.doxbridge.co.uk/index.html. Retrieved 2009-02-05. 
3. ^ Honorary Palatinate Awards
4. ^ Durham College Rowing. "Novice Cup Regatta". http://www.dur.ac.uk/college.rowing/?p=events/novice. Retrieved 2008-12-28. 
5. ^ HEADS OF HOUSE COMMITTEE. "Minutes AoB (d)(i)". http://www.dur.ac.uk/committees/Committee-of-Heads-of-House/2002-12-18m.pdf. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
6. ^ Durham College Rowing. "Senate Cup". http://www.dur.ac.uk/college.rowing/?p=events/senate. Retrieved 2008-12-28. 
7. ^ Durham College Rowing. "Pennant Series". http://www.dur.ac.uk/college.rowing/?p=events/pennant. Retrieved 2008-12-28. 
8. ^ Durham College Rowing. "Admirals Regatta". http://www.dur.ac.uk/college.rowing/?p=events/admirals. Retrieved 2008-12-28. 
9. ^ "Durham 21". Durham 21. http://www.durham21.iambigred.com. Retrieved 2009-02-05. 

External links

• Durham University Students Union