Student Activities
Thrive Via Hendrix
Hendrix students stay active long after lectures and labs are over for the day. Student activities keep students’ calendars full with events and programs for the whole community.
New Student Orientation
When new students move in, Orientation (OR) week begins. It’s an exciting (and exhausting) week that gets first-year students ready for life at Hendrix.
From awesome trips and entertaining awareness programs, OR is one of the highlights of the Hendrix experience. Meet your academic advisor and make friends across campus at events. OR rolls straight into Welcome Week, ending with Shirttails, a dance competition between all first-year students living in the residence halls and a long-standing Hendrix tradition.
Campus Traditions
Spend a little time at Hendrix, and you’ll quickly learn that some things here have a language all their own.
Campus Kitty, for example, has nothing to do with cats. It’s a student-led tradition that has brought the Hendrix community together for fun, friendly competition, and fundraising for local charities for more than 65 years.
Then there’s Shirttails, Hendrix’s oldest student tradition. For more than a century, students have gathered each fall for a spirited residence hall dance competition. The tradition has changed a bit since it began as a spontaneous celebration following a Hendrix football victory, but the signature look has stuck around: tennis shoes, shorts or boxers, a white long-sleeve Oxford shirt, and a tie.
And if it’s your birthday? You’ll find out pretty quickly that Hendrix has a tradition for that, too.
That’s just the beginning. Stick around long enough and you’ll hear about the elusive cafeteria disco tray, Robots, Ghost Roast, SoCo 54, Miss Hendrix, Toga, and plenty of other traditions that make Hendrix feel like home.
Some will make sense right away. Others? You’ll just have to experience them for yourself.
Clubs and Organizations
Hendrix students take part in more than 70 student clubs and organizations, representing everything from academic areas and activism to service, social justice, and special interests.
List of Clubs and Organizations
The following list represents active student organizations at Hendrix College. To find out more about any group, please contact Student Activities at activities@hendrix.edu.
- Anime Club
- Art Club
- Athletes in Action
- Asian Cultures Club
- Bailey Library Book Club
- Board Game Club
- Catholic Campus Ministry
- Chi Alpha Ministries
- Chinese Club
- Computer Science Club
- Conservative Student Union
- Hendrix Animal Rights & Rescue
- Hendrix College Climbing Coalition
- Hendrix College Eco-Community
- Hendrix College Pre-Dental Society
- Hendrix Filmmakers Club
- Hendrix Gardening Club
- Hendrix Justice Initiative
- Hendrix Mock Trial Association
- Hendrix Naturalists Club
- Hendrix Scientific Magazine
- Hendrix Student Senate
- Hendrix Volleyball Club
- Interfaith Hendrix
- KHDX 93.1 FM
- Korean Language & Culture Club
- MD2B (Medical Doctors 2 Be)
- Middle Eastern Student Association
- Morgan’s Message
- Native American Student Association
- Naturalists Club
- Organization for Latino Expressions (OLE’)
- Phi Beta Lambda
- Psychology Club
- She’s The First
- Sisters in Solidarity (SIS)
- Society of Physics Students
- Sociology/Anthropology Club
- Students for Black Culture (SBC)
- Sword Club
- The Aonian
- The Profile
- The Troubadour (Yearbook)
- TRANS@HDX
- Twisted Stitches
- Ultimate Frisbee Club
- Unity (LGBTQIA+ Student Association)
- Well Being Coalition
- Young Democrats
- Campus Kitty
- Campus Sustainability Fund Committee
- Committee on Gender and Sexuality (COGS)
- Committee on Sexual Assault Awareness & Advocacy (COSAA)
- Media Committee
- Mental Health Committee
- Multicultural Development Committee (MDC)
- Senior Committee
- Social Committee (SOCO)
- Student Organization’s Media Equipment Committee (SOMEC)
- Volunteer Action Committee
- Welcome Week Committee
Purchasing Information
Student organizations have access to College resources and purchasing processes to help bring events, programs, and activities to life. Whether you’re purchasing supplies, working with a local vendor, contracting for a service, or requesting reimbursement, use the guidelines below to make sure purchases are approved, documented, and processed correctly.
For additional information, contact Student Activities at activities@hendrix.edu or (501) 450-1291.
- Discuss purchasing needs with your organization.
- Complete a Student Organization PO Form including advisor signature.
- Bring completed Student Organization PO Form to the Office of Student Activities.
- Card(s) and receipt(s) are due back to Student Activities within one business day.
- The individual who checks out the card(s) is responsible for all charges during possession until relieved by returning card(s) and receipt(s).
- Student Activities will submit all receipts to the Business Office.
- Discuss purchasing needs with your organization and advisor.
- Ask if business will accept Hendrix College Purchase Order.
- If no, talk with Student Activities about other options or purchase and request a reimbursement.
- If yes, complete a Student Organization PO Form and submit to Business Office.
- Use Purchase Order to complete purchase.
- Return invoice from merchant to the Business Office with PO number included.
- All contracts MUST be signed by the Vice President for Business and Finance.
- Complete Student Organization PO Form.
- Submit Student Organization PO Form to Business Office with copy of signed contract.
Contact Student Activities
For more information, please reach out to Student Activities.
Phone
Address
1600 Washington Avenue, Conway, AR 72032-3080
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