Hampshire College

Hampshire is home to over 100 student groups. Choosing one can be a challenge. Don’t see what you're looking for? Make it so. Campus Leadership and Activities can help.

	Mixed Nuts
	Since 1972, the Mixed Nuts co-op has provided cheap, organic, and natural food to the Hampshire community. Run entirely by student volunteers without administrative funding, Mixed Nuts is a testament to student dedication.

Academic Groups

• Advancing Mathematics as a Liberal
• ASL Collective
• arc5 - The Five College Architecture Club
• Childhood, Youth, and Learning (CYL)
• Darwin's Notochords pending
• Five College Architecture
• GNU+Linux Users Group
• Hampshire Animal Behavior
• Hot Hot Math pending
• Language
• Latin American/Latin@/legal studies group
• Polyglot Society new name for Esperanto-klubo
• The Hampshire College Pre-Law Society
• Project Teach
• Radical Philosophy Society
• Social Science Student Group

Activist Groups

	Amnesty International
	Amnesty International's mission is to raise awareness on campus of human rights issues abroad, educate the student body of what they can do to change these injustices, and to host events that will help accomplish both of these goals.

• Amnesty International
• Anti-Racism Collective (ARC)
• Building Awareness Across Bars (BAAB)
• HALA (Hampshire Animal Liberation Advocacy)
• Hampshire Hacktivists
• The Hampshire Socialist Internationalist Party pending
• HUA (Hampshire Union of Activists)
• Men of Color United pending
• New Leaf
• Re-Rad
• SFT (Students for a Free Tibet)
• SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine)
• SPICI (Students Promoting Israel Culture and Information)
• Students Alliance for Zimbabwe (STAZ)
• SFU (Students for the Freedom to Unionize)
• USELESS Hampshire

Art and Music Groups

	Crazy Pitches
	The Crazy Pitches a capella group is a group of students that work together to arrange, teach, learn and perform songs that are not typical a capella tunes.

• AMC
• Asian Media
• The Big Skunk Ape Project
• Blacksmiths' Guild
• Burlesque for All
• Chameleon Club
• Circus Folk Unite
• Contra Dance Collective (CDC)
• Crazy Pitches
• Crew Team
• Dance Collective
• Experimental Music Collective
• The Frankie Patts Institute for Rock 'n' Roll Studies
• Gin & Tonics
• Glass Collective
• Grupo Capoeira Angola

	Slam Collective
	The Hampshire College Slam Collective's purpose is to establish and foster a healthy community of poets and spoken word artists on campus.

• Hampshire Bellydance Collective (formerly Figure 8)
• Hampshire Mural Collective
• Hampshire College Slam Collective
• Hampshire College Writers' Circle
• HIP Hampshire Independent Productions
• Hip Hop Collective
• IKE
• The Laughter Club pending
• Natural Disaster Club
• Necrocinema new name for Film Cooperative
• Shake and Bake
• The Faerie Project
• The Tunes Group
• The Urban Word
• VIBE
• Yurt

	Climbers' Coalition
	The mission of the Climbers’ Coalition is to offer opportunities for experiences that are often left behind in the modern world: a sense of camaraderie; outdoor exposure; a better understanding of oneself through educated risk; physical and mental fitness; and consideration for the natural environment.

Business Groups

• Mixed Nuts
• SMIFF (Student Managed Investment Fund Forum)
• Social Entrepreneurship Aid and Resource Center at Hampshire (SEARCH)

Committees

• Community Council
• FiCom
• COCA
• COCD
• SafeCom

Five College Student Groups

• Five College Student Groups

Food Groups

• Chocolate Club

	Local Foods Initiative
	The Local Foods Initiative is dedicated to the appreciation and promotion of the diverse food products produced in the Pioneer Valley. We believe that the process of growing, preparing and enjoying sustainable, local food is ecologically, gustatorially, and socially important to Hampshire College and the community at large.

• Community Garden
• Connoisseurs of Cheesy Comestibles
• Friends of Fermentation
• Get Baked
• Hampshire Slow Food pending
• Local Foods Initiative
• The Yeast Collective pending

Houses

• Dakin House Interns
• GE House Interns
• Merrill House Interns
• Prescott House Interns

Identity-Based Groups

• Aliz
• Alternative Sexuality Collective
• Feminist United Collective
• Jewish Student Union (JSU)
• SOURCE
  • FISH (Forum For Int'l Students at Hampshire)
  • James Baldwin Scholars
  • Mixed Heritage
  • PASA (Pan Asian Student Association)

  	CYL
  	CYL is a student group for students interested in childhood, youth, child and adolescent development, processes of human learning, and educational theory and practice. The primary mission of the group is to create a community for students studying these topics.

  • RAICES
  • SISTERS
  • UMOJA
• QCA (Queer Community Alliance)
• QIPOC (Queer Identified People of Color and Queer Identified International Students)
• SOURCE Coalition (old account name: Cultural Center)
• Genderqueer/Trans Spectrum Student Alliance new name for TSA - Trans Student Alliance
• Tibetan-Chinese Dialogue Group
• Young Republicans: Hampshire College Chapter

Miscellaneous

• Book Club
• DIY Collective
• The Dudes' Austen Troupe
• Emogination
• Greenhouse
• The Hampshire College Space Program
• The Living Space
• Metalheads Machining Coalition
• Oh, Our Hampshire pending
• SARS (Science and Art Reconciliation Society) pending
• Springfield School Tutors pending
• Zap!

Publications

• The Climax
• Comics Collective
• INFINITY
• The Omen
• The Reader
• Tele-visionally Speaking
• Zine Collective

Recreational Groups

• 28mm
• Dandelion Den
• Excalibur
• Hampshire Quiz Bowl
• Historical Reenactment Society
• The Knitting and Crafting Group
• Magic Draft
• Mythos
• Necronomicon
• Primitive Skills
• Puzzlin' For Piece
• Yoga Collective

Service Groups

• Counselor Advocates (CAs)
• EPEC Experimental Programs in Education and Community
• HCEMS Hampshire College Emergency Medical Service
• Hampedia Project
• Reproductive Health Advocates
• Sexperts

Spiritual Groups

• Buddhist Resource Group
• Hampshire Christian Fellowship
• Hampshire Quakers
• Pagan Collective

Sports Groups

• Climbers' Coalition
• Foozball Club
• Hampshire College Equestrian Team
• Hampshire College Swim Club
• Hampshire Fencing
• Kyudo
• Red Scare Ultimate Frisbee
• Sports Co-op
• Tennis Team

Through event registration and the formal recognition of student groups, Hampshire College encourages students to design and implement programs that enrich and are consistent with the educational mission of the College. The name "Hampshire College" and all abbreviations are property of the Trustees of Hampshire College and may not be used to imply, either directly or indirectly, the College’s endorsement, support, favor, association with, or opposition to an organization, product, or service without permission of the College. The assistant dean of students for campus leadership and activities, as well as the dean of students office or designee, may deny recognition as well as cancel events or activities that violate any of these criteria.