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- AWOL - All Ways of Loving, a club that celebrates relationships, regardless of sexuality.
- BAC - Brumbaugh Academic Center, formerly BSC, Brumbaugh Science Center.
- Baker - The main dining hall.
- BCA - Brethren Colleges Abroad, a study abroad organization that sends some Eagles Abroad to international program locations.
- Blue and Gold Rooms - Rooms in Ellis Hall where club meetings are often held.
- CA - Cultural Analysis. Required class for graduating, usually taken by sophomores. Occasionally accompanied by eye-rolling or dragging heels, but this is subject to debate.
- CWS - College Writing Seminar. Your standard freshman writing class, loathed by English majors, as it steals their professors, and thus their class options, for every fall semester.
- Cyber Café - Ellis Cyber Café, right outside of Muddy Run Café
- DCB - Declining credit balance, which can be used to get coffee and food with your meal plan.
- Eagles Abroad - The name for students who like adventuring to far-off places with one or more of Juniata’s multitudinous study abroad programs.
- Founders - Where you’ll register and find all forms necessary for transcripts, transfers, and anything else you’ll need to choose your classes and declare your POE. Also where you’ll find the offices of the deans, provost, and president of the College.
- Freshman Fun Bunch - Term for freshwomen who like to party harder than the average incomer.
- Help Desk - They will try to help you with your computer.
- HOSA - Health Occupations Students of America. The organization for the future doctors, nurses, and other health professionals.
- IA - Information Access. This is a required class for incoming freshmen to get them accustomed to technological life at Juniata.
- Info Desk - They will help you find phone numbers, buy concert/event tickets, and provide you with information for anything happening on campus.
- JAB - Juniata Activities Board; run by students dedicated to bucking up campus life with weekend events.
- JCEL - Juniata College Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. A program that gives monetary loans to allow students planning to remain in the Huntingdon area to start and experience what it is like to run a small business.
- JIF - Juniata Instructors of the Future; future teachers can sign up here to get involved on campus.
- Jitters - The campus coffee shop.
- Mountain Day - Everyone’s favorite tradition. Mountain Day is a day in the fall semester in which classes are spontaneously cancelled in the early morning and students are treated to a free day in a park or by the lake with food and fun. Half the fun is predicting when it will be and when you should or shouldn’t do your homework. It’s the most talked-about, debated, and eagerly awaited tradition on campus; you’ll hear about it nearly as soon as you get there.
- Muddy - Muddy Run. A main congregating point on campus, and the closest thing Juniata has to a student center—you can get food, coffee, Internet access, and play pool here. It’s also the only major alternative to Baker.
- North - Sunderland Hall
- North Lawn - The main lawn in front of Sunderland Hall.
- Oller Lawn - The main lawn in front of Oller, the library, and Cloister.
- OSA - Office of Student Activities. JAB’s official counterpart, run by actual employed people and interns.
- PACS - The nicknames for the Peace and Conflict Studies POE.
- PAX-O - Peace and Conflict Studies Organization; the club for PACS people or others interested in expanding social and political consciousness on campus. Politically it is predominantly (and notoriously) leftist.
- POE - Program of Emphasis. This is what you’ll call your major.
- QM - Quantitative Methods; a requisite math course for those looking to avoid as much math as possible.
- Res Life - The Office of Residential Life
- SIM, LIM - Science-in-Motion, Language-in-Motion; science and foreign language outreach programs to area high schools.
- Stalkernet - The intra-campus computer directory
- Storming - The nickname for “Storming of the Arch.” This tradition takes place in early September, and you’ll hear people talking about soon after you arrive on campus.
- The Arch - The archway of Cloister Hall, and the home of some upperclassmen.
- The ARCH - The Juniata Web portal. There is a general information site in which you can find such listings as daily events and announcements, the menu in Baker and Muddy, and the Juniata forums. Students also have a personal page, and can access their class schedule, transcript, and grade point average.
- The Couches - The couches in Ellis Hall, a main meeting spot for students.
- The Unity House - The new home of both the Campus Ministry Office and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, it’s centered on creating awareness and bringing people together.
- Thunder Alley - The basement of North/Sunderland Hall
- TLT - Teaching Learning Technology Center, the highest tech computer lab on campus, located in Brumbaugh. It also offers training sessions in various computer and technological services.
- TnT - Tussey and Terrace halls
- TSC - The Solutions Center, home of the TLT and the Help Desk
- UCJC - United Cultures of Juniata College. Club that celebrates other cultures and their traditions on campus.
- Von RealBig/Von BigBig - Von Liebig Center for Science
Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming To School
- Don’t panic at how small the town and campus seem—you’ll get used to it, and the college experience is exponentially bigger than the town. Everyone gets claustrophobic here sometimes; it’s normal.
- Get a meal plan with DCB. Even if you just get a little bit, it’s a nice cushion to have come mealtime in Muddy when you’re craving a little variety.
- Having a car is a good thing, but not if you’re going to use it to go home every weekend.
- If the school doesn’t have it, you can start it—it’s never been more true here, and it works!
- Participate in all the traditions at least once. Go to Mountain Day and Pig Roast, tent out for Madrigal and then attend, Storm the Arch, and so forth.
- When you’re a freshman, everyone’s in the same boat. Things are not as big a deal as they seem (this outlook comes in handy in life, too).
- Yes, you should probably try to avoid Sherwood, but you can survive just fine there if need be.
Tips to Succeed
- Be open-minded. This sounds pretty general, but doing so will serve you better than you’d think.
- Get to know your professors, they care about you and will help you immeasurably.
- Go to class, but skipping within your professor-approved limit is okay. Falling behind is bad, though. Very, very bad. This should be avoided as much as at all possible, because it’ll just bring much suffering to your already stressed-out soul.
- If you hate math, take QM—you’ll probably still hate it, but you’ll only have to take one math class instead of two.
- Learn to love—or at least appreciate—the art of procrastination, but not too much.
- Plan to work hard, plan to play hard. Especially plan to work hard.
- Speaking of stress, get involved! Overly so. You’ll love it, you know you will, even—and perhaps especially—when you’re tearing your hair out, and it’s also how you’ll get to know people.
- Study abroad if at all possible. Don’t be too afraid of it; odds are, it’ll change your life for the better.
- Take advantage of the individual POE.
- Take initiative. When people say “if the club isn’t here, start it,” or, “if you want to study a combination of things, create your major” they’re not kidding. This school will tailor itself to your every whim if you have the gumption to start it (clubs) or the rationale to justify it (your major).
Urban Legends
- Rumor has it a student has been wandering around majoring in “happiness,” a more extreme and whimsical ode to the individual POE. Another attempted a “mad scientist” POE, got it approved by a snarky prof, but was later thwarted by the Registrar for lack of credibility. For shame.
- Some overeager pranksters lured a wayward bovine up to the president’s office in Founders, not knowing that though a cow will go up steps, it will not go back down—they’re physically incapable of doing so. As a result, the poor animal hailed its last chief in Founders Hall, and had to be carried out in pieces. Fact or fiction? No one knows, but whatever supposedly haunts Founders—or Cloister, for that matter—it’s not cattle.
- The most blatant fib—Juniata has a nightlife. No really, it’s been supposed that Juniata once graced Playboy’s pages in the ‘80s as one of the nation’s top party schools. Students who believe it are still wondering what happened.
- This last one is strictly Halloween, as it’s by far the most gruesome of the lot. Why is the men’s rugby team so independent of the College? Because in the ‘70s, a rival team from a medical school thought it’d be funny to kick a cadaver’s head around the field as a form of intimidation, and things went downhill from there, leading to men’s rugby being banned from playing on Juniata soil for a number of years. Truth or unnecessarily grotesque fireside story? We’re not sure, but rumors say the incident got national attention.
Traditions
- All-Class Night - All-Class Night is an annual competition that spoofs people and events on campus. Each class writes and organizes a skit to be their potshot vehicle, and the result is an over-the-top send-up of Juniata culture. Even faculty and staff sometimes get involved. The freshmen always get booed, the seniors don’t always win, and being an event whose very purpose is to walk the line between wickedly funny and just plain wicked, sometimes a class crosses the line. However, the event aims to be all in good fun, and though it was in danger of being a tradition to fall by the wayside, it’s in the process of being resurrected, to everyone’s subversive delight.
- Bar Walk - Bar Walk is the annual barhopping tradition sponsored by officers of the senior class. It’s a walkabout held during Senior Week, after finals and before graduation. It’s a time for seniors and other 21-and-over Juniata students to enjoy their last few days of college life and their remaining time together, and many of the bars in town offer discounts for the occasion.
- Homecoming/Family Weekend - Homecoming and Family Weekend are now a joint endeavor, and are usually held in October. The weekend is a chance for families to meet on campus to spend time together, as well as for alumni to reunite after graduating. The weekend centers on the Homecoming football game, but there are other scheduled activities, picnics, and reunions as well.
- Lobsterfest - Traditionally held on the first Saturday of the fall semester, Lobsterfest is a fair in which the student body is treated to an outdoor meal that includes whole lobsters. Student organizations line up their booths around the Cloister quad, turning out to attract new members and welcome old ones back. Later, barring rain, a second-run movie is shown on the lawn. Lobsterfest is a chance for upperclassmen to reunite after the summer break and for incoming freshmen to see what Juniata is all about.
- Madrigal - When it comes to beloved traditions, the Madrigal dinner and dance and everything that leads up to it is second to nothing but Mountain Day. Half the population of Juniata attends, and many have literally endured the elements to get there. Every year in November, students camp out for days in front of Ellis Hall to try to ensure themselves a spot at some of the best tables at the dinner. Tables are organized into sections, and each section is named after a verse of “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” with everyone aiming to sit in “Five Golden Rings.” Students construct an enormous tent city around the building, complete with TVs, video games, and laptops. They can be seen popping out of their tents at all hours of the night to make Roll Call—the one thing that can get them bumped to the end of the line and end their chances to sit in the revered section. After weathering the, well, weather, students then dress up in their finery on the last Saturday of the fall semester. They attend a formal dinner, where they are waited on by their faculty members, and after dining, they hear stories, watch musical performances, and sing Christmas carols. When it’s time for “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” each section jumps on their chairs and sings their assigned verse. “Five Golden Rings” is so popular because, let’s face it, it’s the loudest and best part of the song. Students then head off to dance the night away, and end their fall semester on a high note before finals begin.
- May Day Breakfast - The May Day Breakfast is held on Reading Day every spring. Though the event originally honored outstanding women in every class, it now is devoted to honoring both women and men, and celebrates the contributions they make on campus in terms of leadership and service. Students sign up in advance to attend the breakfast and applaud their classmates and peers.
- Mountain Day - Mountain Day is the oldest and most beloved tradition on campus. Why? Because in the wee hours of a warm fall day classes are spontaneously cancelled, of course! Students then flock to a state park for a picnic and games, taking on the faculty in tug-of-war and flag football. Nobody knows in advance when Mountain Day will be, though everyone places bets with themselves, each other, and the homework gods, guessing which day they’ll have to have their work done, and which day will save them from the misery of potentially guessing wrong. Trying to figure out when Mountain Day will be is half the fun, and nothing beats an unexpected holiday from work and class.
- Mr. Juniata - If you’ve read this far, you know a school like this has to have a male beauty pageant, and Mr. Juniata is it. Held every fall to benefit the Make a Wish Foundation, Mr. Juniata draws a large crowd of Juniatians eager to see what kind of madness and hilarity the smart, talented, and yes, cute guys of campus can get themselves into. It’s very—and very appropriately—tongue-in-cheek. Circle K, the college version of Kiwanis, sponsors the event.
- Pig Roast - Pig Roast is another student favorite. It’s sponsored by the rugby teams and is fairly self-explanatory. Every spring, students and alumni flock to a field by Raystown Lake or a similar natural area where they roast a pig and the current rugby players take on their graduated teammates. Students make an afternoon of it, and transportation is provided. Alcoholic beverages are allowed for the over-21 set, and there’s usually music and sometimes even sunshine to make it a great way to kick back in the springtime.
- Springfest - Springfest is the last time to let loose before finals hit in the second semester. There’s outdoor food (lunch and dinner) and usually musical entertainment, whether it’s a live band or a DJ. Students can wander from booth to booth for games and (more) food provided by the clubs on campus. Games include sumo wrestling in puffy sumo suits and a Velcro wall. At night there’s also a movie on the lawn. The highlight of the whole event is mud volleyball. Whether students really want to play volleyball or just get dirty doesn’t matter; they’re in touch with their inner mud-pie children and happy as pigs in—well, you get the idea.
- Storming of the Arch - Storming of the Arch takes place in September, and is a rite of passage for any freshman interested in a bit of limb-risking. The goal: run from North Lawn through the Cloister Arch. Yes it sounds easy, so of course there’s a catch. So when you do it, try not to get hung up on the previous Stormers and members of the women’s rugby team who will do just about anything to keep you from getting through, and keep this in mind: no one’s made it yet.
- Winter Formal - The Winter Formal is a semi-formal dance held in the spring semester. It’s usually at an off-campus location, and gives students a chance to dress up and dance for a night away from studies.
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