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The Clarkson School
The Clarkson School, a special division of Clarkson University, was founded in 1978 as a unique educational opportunity. The School offers students an early entrance opportunity into college, replacing the typical senior year of high school with a year of college. It is one of few college early admission programs in the country that provides a real community living/learning experience on a university campus.The Clarkson School's Bridging Year is a "bridging year" between high school and college for students who are ready to enter college early. Every year 50 to 80 11th grade students are accepted to The Clarkson School, where they work towards a GED
GED
General Educational Development tests are a group of five subject tests which, when passed, certify that the taker has American or Canadian high school-level academic skills...
and take college classes. They may also work with their high schools to complete a high school diploma. After they complete the program, they are given the option to enter Clarkson University with all credits from the previous year.
Students in The Clarkson School are fully matriculated undergraduates with freshman status at the University. They take classes with other University students and usually carry a course load of 15 to 18 credits per semester for two semesters. College credits may also be given for college and Advanced Placement courses taken before entering The Clarkson School. Cross-registration at neighboring area colleges and universities can provide additional college credits, particularly in art, music and languages. These credits also appear on an official Clarkson University transcript.
The Clarkson School students are housed in Newell House in Price Hall and the typical class size is about 50 students. Students participating in this program are called "Schoolies" by other Clarkson students.
Campus
Clarkson has two distinct campuses, the "downtown" campus and the "hill" campus. During the last 20 years Clarkson has developed almost exclusively on the hill campus. The Department of Physical Therapy is located in the downtown campus. The campus bookstore is located in the downtown Potsdam. The last student dormitoryDormitory
A dormitory, often shortened to dorm, in the United States is a residence hall consisting of sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university students...
(Congdon) located on the downtown campus closed in May 2006. The only buildings remaining in Clarkson's service at the downtown campus are a few administration buildings, the Army and Air Force ROTC houses, as well as the Pre-PT (Physical Therapy) program. Most other downtown campus buildings have been leased or sold.
PC Magazine
PC Magazine
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and The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review
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ranked Clarkson among the top-20 wired colleges in the nation for 2007. "The Top Wired Colleges" honors colleges with the most comprehensive—in terms of size, scope and quality—computing and technology offerings.
The 2007 Princeton Review considers Clarkson to be one of "Best Northeastern Colleges".
Academic buildings
- Bertrand H. Snell Hall ("New Snell") - Contains classrooms and home to the School of Business and the School of Arts and Sciences, along with the offices of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Communication and Media Department. Snell also contains Clarkson's Writing Center and the Eastman Kodak Center for Excellence in Communication. Snell is also the newest building on the hill campus, having opened in 2001.
- Cora and Bayard Clarkson Science Center - Contains classrooms, student and research labs. Home of Computer Science, Math, Physics, Chemistry and Biology Departments. On the first and second floors towards Snell is the Biotechnology Wing, opened in Fall 2005. The Science Center is connected to Snell Hall by the Petersen Passageway on the third floor.
- Technology Advancement Center ("the TAC") - Contains two conference rooms/classrooms and three study areas on the second floor. The first floor is home to the Division of Research, laboratories and graduate student offices. The building also connects the Science Center and the ERC.
- Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP) - Contains classrooms, student and research labs, and a machine shop. Home of Wallace H. CoulterWallace H. CoulterWallace H. Coulter was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is best known for his discovery of the Coulter principle, which provided a methodology for counting, measuring and evaluating microscopic particles suspended in fluid...
School of Engineering.
- Rowley Labs - Connected to CAMP. Contains few classrooms and student labs. This building is used mainly for research.
- Educational Resources Center (ERC) - Contains Clarkson's library, the Career Center, and a common area for individual and group studying. Also contains a few classrooms.
Residential buildings
- Townhouses - Each Townhouse is a four person apartment with two double rooms and a bathroom upstairs. A kitchen and living room on the first floor. The Townhouses are generally used for theme and senior housing.
- Riverside - Each Riverside apartment contains a first floor with kitchen and living room. The upstairs varies and will house three to four people. A single and a double bedroom or two doubles. The Riverside apartments are generally used by theme housing and seniors.
- Woodstock - Woodstock apartments are for two to four people with three different configurations. The four person style has a living room, kitchen and two double bedrooms. There are two different two person styles, regular and efficiency. The regular two person apartments have a living room, kitchen and one double bedroom while the efficiency has just a kitchen and living room which doubles as a bedroom as well. Woodstock housing is used by seniors and a few juniors.
- New Dorms - The New Dorms consist of the Price and Graham complexes, each split into four Houses. The Graham Hall complex consists of Donahue, Olson, Van Note, and Wilson Houses, while the Price Hall complex consists of Farrisee, Newell, Ormsby, and Thomas Houses. Newell House is reserved for the Clarkson School, the others are used by honors students, Clarkson School mentors, and others. There are a few styles of rooms. Most are four person suites containing 2 double bedrooms linked by a common bathroom. The other four person suites are composed of a single double bedroom and two single bedrooms which share a single bathroom. There are a handful of single double bedrooms, which have their own bathroom. These few double bedrooms are much larger than any other suite. In the center core of the Graham complex is the Graham Cafeteria (currently not in operation), and in the center core of the Price complex are the Student Support Services offices, First-Year Advising offices, and Clarkson School/Honors offices.
- Moore House - Generally inhabited by juniors and sophomores, it is the closest residential building to Snell Hall and the Science Center. It contains four person suites consisting of two double bedrooms joined by a common bathroom. The first floor of Moore is home to the Clarkson University CEO Program. Construction is currently being done to enlarge more house and provide more residential area.
- The Quad - Used for freshman housing. The Quad is composed of four buildings- Ross, Brooks, Cubley, and Reynolds Houses - linked by the Ross-Brooks eatery, between Ross house and Brooks house, and Empire Diner, between Reynolds house and Cubley house. The laundry is located between the fours houses. Although all the building are connected, it is impossible to move between all four houses without going outside. Due to the fact that Empire Diner was put between Reynolds and Cubley and you have to enter Empire from the middle building. It is however possible to move between Ross and Brooks without going outside. The Quad buildings are four stories high. With the fourth floor rooms being bigger than the rest of the floors, but usually containing triples instead of doubles.
- Hamlin-Powers ("The Pit") - The original hill campus student housing, consisting of Hamlin and Powers Houses, once highly sought for being the closest to the downtown campus and being right across the street from the old hockey arena, is now the lowest priority housing and home to many sophmores and few freshman. The buildings were renovated in 2003 and have the same layout as the buildings in the Quad. The Student Health Center which was located in between the two wings of the building has recently been moved to the ERC.
Other buildings
- The Student Center is a student centered building constructed between the Educational Resources Center and CAMP. The official groundbreaking was held on May 9, 2009, but construction did not begin until June 8, 2009. Its official opening was on August 27, 2010. Eateries include a cafeteria and a revamped Java City. Other amenities include the POD Market, mailroom, radio station, TV station, and newspaper office on the basement level; the Clarkson University Student Association (CUSA) offices on the second floor; and large amounts of lounge space on all three levels. The core of the building is home to a large presentation area known as the Forum, used for presentations and activities.
- Cheel Campus Center - Contains eating facilities, including a Subway, Club 99 (on campus bar), Residential Housing Administration, Dean of Clarkson University and, of course, Cheel ArenaCheel ArenaCheel Arena is a 3,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Potsdam, New York. Cheel Arena was opened in on October 26th, 1991, and is named after Helen Snell Cheel, a long-time benefactor of Clarkson University, who provided a major gift towards the project....
(home of Clarkson's hockey teams). - Adirondack Lodge - A cabin of sorts, built behind the townhouses and tucked into the woods on the edge of campus. This building is used by all the outdoor clubs including the Outing Club, Ski Club, Cycling Club and Nordic Ski Team. Gear lockers are contained in the basement while the first floor is used as a meeting place for clubs and organizations. The upstairs floor is reserved living quarters for the head of Outdoor Recreation.
- Indoor Recreation Center (IRC) - Contains a field house with basketball courts and an indoor track, swimming pool, racquetball courts, exercise equipmentExercise equipmentAn apparatus or device used in any given physical activity for shaping and forming muscle groups for specific areas of the body. A mechanism or machine that is intended to promote health and fitness by using motion with varying degrees of resistance either fixed or adjustable.-Exercise...
, and a parquet floored gymnasium with bleachers. The Alumni Gymnasium is home to Clarkson's basketball and volleyball teams, and Fuller Pool is home to Clarkson's swim teams. - Boat House - Located behind the Riverside apartments on the Raquette river. This building contains canoeCanoeA canoe or Canadian canoe is a small narrow boat, typically human-powered, though it may also be powered by sails or small electric or gas motors. Canoes are usually pointed at both bow and stern and are normally open on top, but can be decked over A canoe (North American English) or Canadian...
s and kayakKayakA kayak is a small, relatively narrow, human-powered boat primarily designed to be manually propelled by means of a double blade paddle.The traditional kayak has a covered deck and one or more cockpits, each seating one paddler...
s owned and maintained by the Outing Club.
Dining facilities
- Ross-Brooks Marketplace ("Ro-Bro") - Located in the Quad, Ro-Bro is an all-you-can-eat dining hall facility open seven days a week.
- Empire Diner ("Empire") - Also located in the Quad, Empire is a nostalgic dining facility with all-you-can-eat for lunch and dinner.
- Bené Pizzeria - Located inside Student Center, Bene Pizza sells pizza and pasta.
- Main Street Café - Located inside of the Cheel Campus Center, the Main Street Café food court contains : SubwaySubway (restaurant)Subway is an American restaurant franchise that primarily sells submarine sandwiches and salads. It is owned and operated by Doctor's Associates, Inc. . Subway is one of the fastest growing franchises in the world with 35,519 restaurants in 98 countries and territories as of October 25th, 2011...
. - Student Center Dining Hall - Pasta Station, Salad Station, Pizza, Grill, Panini Station, and Asian Grill.
- Bar 9 - Located in Student Center with foosball, pool and dartboard.
- Java City - Located in the Student Center, Java City sells coffee, specialty beverages and pre-made sandwiches.
- Concrete Café - Located on the third floor of the Science Center, the Concrete Café sells coffee, soup, and sandwiches.
Athletics
Clarkson University's NCAA Division I Golden Knights compete in Men's and Women's ice hockeyIce hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
. The men's team was a number one seed in the East region of the 2007 NCAA Division I Hockey Tournament and is a traditional power in the ECACHL. Clarkson, as the number three seed in the 2008 NCAA East regional, knocked off St. Cloud State 2-1 to advance to the second round. The Golden Knights were then defeated by national number one seed, Michigan 2-0. Other Division III varsity teams compete in the Liberty League
Liberty League
The Liberty League is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division III. Originally founded in 1995 as the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association, was renamed during the summer of 2004 to the current name...
conference and include Men's Baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, Basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, Golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, Lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
, and Soccer, Women's Basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, Lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
, Soccer, and Volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, as well as combined Men's and Women's Alpine Skiing
Alpine skiing
Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...
, Cross Country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, Nordic Skiing
Nordic skiing
Nordic skiing is a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing....
and Swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
.
Other non-varsity clubs include Men's and Women's ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
, Men's and Women's Rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
, Men's Soccer, Men's Bowling
Bowling
Bowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...
, combined Men's and Women's Crew
Crew
A crew is a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard...
and Ultimate Frisbee. Clarkson's combined Men's and Women's club Racquetball
Racquetball
For other sports often called "paddleball", see Paddleball .Racquetball is a racquet sport played with a hollow rubber ball in an indoor or outdoor court...
Team won the Division II title at the USRA National Tournament in 2005. In 2010, the school started a club football team known as the Golden Knights. They will be entering into their second season in the Fall of 2011.
Clubs
Clarkson University's Student Association (CUSA) sponsors over 50 clubs, the largest of which being the Outing Club, Ski Club, The Clarkson Pep Band, Clarkson Theatre Company, and the Clarkson Union Board. All CUSA sponsored clubs are entirely student run and both undergrad and grad students are welcome to join any time.In addition to these, Clarkson University's chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization has over 100 members, spanning every academic school, and has for the past number of years continued to win many awards at their National Conference; including Best Overall Chapter in 2005, and Best Business in 2005 and 2006. The club currently owns and operates four distinct businesses, including Knights Unlimited (The Kiosk) located in the Cheel Campus Center.
Electronics Society and Amateur Radio Club (K2CC), established in 1922 is the University's oldest organization that is still active today. The club offers two licensing exam sessions per semester and interacts regularly with the local community. K2CC has both analog and digital voice repeaters and maintains a contest and experimentation room equipped with DX, weak signal and satellite radios and antennas.
With WTSC 91.1 FM The Source
WTSC-FM
WTSC-FM is a non-commercial campus radio station licensed to serve Potsdam, New York. The station is owned by Clarkson University and licensed to Knight & Day Inc. The WTSC organization is affiliated with the Clarkson University Student Association , from whom it receives the majority of its...
, Clarkson also offers one of the North Country's most popular radio stations, which is run completely by the student body. Students can broadcast their own shows, and offers a wide variety of music from Rap to Alternative, from Classic rock to street punk. The station has well over 1000 CDs and nearly 24 Terabytes of music on vinyl. The station has a fully equipped broadcast studio (studio A), as well as a second studio for mixing (studio B), and a fully functional recording studio.
The Clarkson Photo Club is a group of students with strong interests in photography, ranging from black and white, color, or digital.
Clarkson Golden Knotes is the Co-ed a Cappella group on campus. Every semester a Final Performance is held to showcase the songs the group worked on for that semester. They also perform at various events on campus.
Clarkson FIRST Robotics is a unique club on campus that brings Clarkson University students together with local high school students to design, build, and test a robot that competes in the FIRST Robotics Competition
FIRST Robotics Competition
The FIRST Robotics Competition is an international high school robotics competition organized by FIRST. Each year, teams of high school students compete to build robots weighing up to , not including battery and bumpers, that can complete a task, which changes every year...
each year.
Applied CS Labs - The Applied Computer Science Labs at Clarkson University consist of the Clarkson Open Source Institute, the Internet Teaching Lab, and the Virtual Reality Lab. These labs, which are part of the Computer Science department, are almost entirely student-run, offering the opportunity to gain experience in managing both facilities and projects. All three labs are located on the 3rd floor of the Science Center in rooms SC334 and SC336.
Clarkson Pep Band
The Clarkson University Pep Band is a student-run organization that supports the Clarkson University Golden Knights ice hockey teams. The band consists of approximately 75 full-time members, and performs at Clarkson's Cheel Arena at all of the home games for the Men's NCAA Division 1 hockey team and some games for the NCAA Division 1 Women's team.The band also travels to Clarkson Men's ECAC Hockey conference away games with 35-40 members (unless restricted by the policies of the opposing team's arena) and post-season tournaments.
The Clarkson University Pep Band was founded in the fall of 1964, by a small group of Clarkson students. By the 1980s, the band's membership grew significantly.
The current conductor of the Pep Band is Nick Van Derzee.
Clarkson Theatre Company
The Clarkson Theatre Company (CTC) is a student-run theatre group, part of Clarkson University and supported by the Clarkson University Student Association (CUSA). The mission of CTC is to provide both theatrical entertainment and an outlet for artistic self-expression in the realm of the theatre arts at Clarkson. Membership consists of students and faculty from Clarkson and the other Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley (SUNY Potsdam, SUNY Canton, and St. Lawrence UniversitySt. Lawrence University
St. Lawrence University is a four-year liberal arts college located in the village of Canton in Saint Lawrence County, New York, United States. It has roughly 2300 undergraduate and 100 graduate students, about equally split between male and female....
)
Every fall, CTC puts on a musical over Clarkson University's family weekend, sometime in mid-to-late October. The production time for this show is between 5 and 7 weeks. After the fall production is over, preparations for the One Act Festival begin. This festival is made up of short plays chosen and directed by students, as well as several written by students as well. This festival is usually put on as a fundraiser for a charity chosen by the executive board, and takes place at the end of January or beginning of February. The next show, usually a straight play, is put on near the beginning of April. Show choice for each slot is not limited to either a musical or play, but it is traditional to use this structure; as shows are chosen by a general member vote, however, any show can be chosen to be put on any semester.
CTC's most famous alum is not a student, but an adviser. Wes Craven
Wes Craven
Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven is an American actor, film director, writer, producer, perhaps best known as the director of many horror films, particularly slasher films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character, the...
, creator of the A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American slasher film directed and written by Wes Craven, and the first film of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The film features Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Robert Englund, and Johnny Depp in his feature film...
franchise, was a professor at Clarkson University in 1968, as well as faculty adviser to the Clarkson Drama Club (the predecessor of the current Clarkson Theatre Company). As part of one of Professor Craven's classes, Humanities IV, several Theta Chi
Theta Chi
Theta Chi Fraternity is an international college fraternity. It was founded on April 10, 1856 as the Theta Chi Society, at Norwich University, Norwich, Vermont, U.S., and was the 21st of the 71 North-American Interfraternity Conference men's fraternities.-Founding and early years at Norwich:Theta...
members wanted to make a spoof of traditional horror movies, about the strange occurrences in their fraternity's house at 18 Elm Street. The filming included CTC's home, Old Snell Hall, where the boiler room scene took place in the basement. While none of those involved had very much film experience, they made the film for about $300 and it was shown twice on campus. Much of Craven's inspiration for A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American slasher film directed and written by Wes Craven, and the first film of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The film features Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Robert Englund, and Johnny Depp in his feature film...
came from this first filmmaking experience; the house in the movie, while not the house used in the first version, resembles this house and also resides on Elm Street. The town in A Nightmare on Elm Street is named Madstop, which is Potsdam backwards.
Fraternities and Sororities
Clarkson social fraternities began organizing on campus in 1904, and social sororities in 1977. A time line shows the interesting history many of the organizations have had. Over the years, there have been many different fraternities and sororities that have come and gone due to declining membership, university probationary periods, and disaffiliation from nationals . In order for the university to recognize a Greek organization, all the members must be registered Clarkson students. Additionally, any organization applying for recognition after 1977 must affiliate with a national organization within five years to maintain recognition. Clarkson recognized international and national fraternities are Phi Kappa SigmaPhi Kappa Sigma
Phi Kappa Sigma is an international all-male college social fraternity. Its members are known as "Phi Kaps", "Skulls" and sometimes "Skullhouse", the latter two because of the skull and crossbones on the Fraternity's badge and coat of arms. Phi Kappa Sigma was founded by Dr. Samuel Brown Wylie...
, Sigma Chi
Sigma Chi
Sigma Chi is the largest and one of the oldest college Greek-letter secret and social fraternities in North America with 244 active chapters and more than . Sigma Chi was founded on June 28, 1855 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio when members split from Delta Kappa Epsilon...
, Alpha Chi Rho
Alpha Chi Rho
Alpha Chi Rho is a men's collegiate fraternity founded on June 4, 1895 at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut by the Reverend Paul Ziegler, his son Carl Ziegler, and Carl's friends William Rouse, Herbert T. Sherriff and William A.D. Eardeley. It is a charter member of the North-American...
, and Sigma Phi Epsilon
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Sigma Phi Epsilon , commonly nicknamed SigEp or SPE, is a social college fraternity for male college students in the United States. It was founded on November 1, 1901, at Richmond College , and its national headquarters remains in Richmond, Virginia. It was founded on three principles: Virtue,...
; local fraternities are Lambda Phi Epsilon, Omicron Pi Omicron, and Zeta Nu. Clarkson recognized international and national sororities are Delta Zeta
Delta Zeta
Delta Zeta is an international college sorority founded on October 24, 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Today, Delta Zeta has 158 collegiate chapters in the United States and over 200 alumnae chapters in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada...
, Phi Sigma Sigma
Phi Sigma Sigma
Phi Sigma Sigma , colloquially known as "Phi Sig," was the first collegiate nonsectarian fraternity, welcoming women of all faiths and backgrounds...
, and Theta Phi Alpha
Theta Phi Alpha
Theta Phi Alpha women's fraternity was founded at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor on August 30, 1912. Theta Phi Alpha is one of 26 national sororities recognized in the National Panhellenic Conference...
; local sororities are Omega Delta Phi
Omega Delta Phi
Omega Delta Phi , also known as O D Phi, is an intercollegiate fraternity that was founded on November 25, 1987 by seven students attending Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Its seven founders known as the "Men of Vision" to fraternity members wanted to create an organization to help...
, Alpha Delta Kappa, Delta Lambda Nu, Zeta Gamma Sigma. Additionally, there are a number of professional Greek lettered organizations: Alpha Kappa Psi
Alpha Kappa Psi
ΑΚΨ is the oldest and largest professional business fraternity. The Alpha Kappa Psi Fraternity was founded on October 5, 1904 at New York University, and was incorporated on May 20, 1905...
, Chi Epsilon
Chi Epsilon
Chi Epsilon is the national civil engineering honor society in the United States. It honors engineering students who have exemplified the "principles of scholarship, character, practicality, and sociability...in the civil engineering profession." There are currently 136 chapters, of which 130...
, Omega Chi Epsilon
Omega Chi Epsilon
Omega Chi Epsilon is an American honor society for chemical engineering students. The first chapter was formed at the University of Illinois in 1931. The second chapter was formed at the Iowa State University in 1932. The organization is a member of the Association of College Honor...
, Phi Delta Epsilon
Phi Delta Epsilon
- History :In October 1904, Aaron Brown and eight of his friends founded Phi Delta Epsilon at Cornell University Medical College. During the first decade of this century there were many doors closed to Jewish medical students and physicians, doors which would not fully open until after World War II...
, Phi Kappa Phi
Phi Kappa Phi
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is an honor society established 1897 to recognize and encourage superior scholarship without restriction as to area of study and to promote the "unity and democracy of education"...
, Tau Beta Pi
Tau Beta Pi
The Tau Beta Pi Association is the oldest engineering honor society in the United States and the second oldest collegiate honor society in America. It honors engineering students who have shown a history of academic achievement as well as a commitment to personal and professional integrity...
, and Tri-Beta. Clarkson is also home to a chapter of the national service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega
Alpha Phi Omega
Alpha Phi Omega is the largest collegiate fraternity in the United States, with chapters at over 350 campuses, an active membership of approximately 17,000 students, and over 350,000 alumni members...
Interfraternity Council
The Interfraternity Council (IFC) provides outlets for social interaction among the fraternity and sorority members. IFC helps to sponsor educational opportunities for all of its members and to help to promote the fraternal ideals of leadership, scholarship, service, community and brotherhood.
Panhellenic Council
The Panhellenic Council is the governing body of the sorority system. The Panhellenic Council provides many opportunities for involvement in campus life and the fraternity and sorority system outside of the individual sororities. Recruitment, social, and educational opportunities are provided by the council. All social sororities recognized by Clarkson University are active members of the National Panhellenic Conference
National Panhellenic Conference
The National Panhellenic Conference , founded in 1902, is an umbrella organization for 26 national women's sororities.Each member group is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter society of college women and alumnae...
.
Greek Life
A few organizations have chapter houses off campus; others have plans of having chapter houses on campus in the near future. Clarkson fraternities and sororities take great pride in their chapter houses because of the rich local history each residence has.
The Greek community is very tight knit because of the university's small size. Fraternities and sororities attend each others' national philanthropy and local community service events. Greek Week and Ice Carnival have an extensive history both with the college and local Potsdam
Potsdam
Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....
community.
Publications and media
- The Integrator is a weekly student-run newspaper which is distributed on Clarkson's campus as well as the town of Potsdam.
- WCKN Television is a student-run television station and is also the local cable systems public access station. In-house programming includes hockey games, news, talk shows, comedy shows, game shows, and various other Clarkson sporting events.
- WTSC Clarkson Radio is a student-run radio station that gives students the opportunity to produce their own weekly radio programs, and consequently serve the community by offering entertainment, news and weather, and special programming via the radio.
- The Clarksonian is a student-run yearbook publication group.
ROTC
Clarkson University is a host university for both the Army ROTC and Air Force ROTC. ROTC has been an institution at Clarkson since May 1936, when the first ROTC Battalion was activated during the tenure of College President James S. Thomas. The ROTC program at Clarkson has commissioned well over 1,150 military officers. These alumni have been represented at each level of the Officer Corps, from Second Lieutenant to General.Army ROTC
The Clarkson Army ROTC Battalion (officially the "Golden Knight Battalion") is one of 272 Army ROTC battalions in the United States. The average size of the Golden Knight Battalion is 100 Cadets, comprised majorily of Clarkson students. The headquarters for the Golden Knight Battalion is at 49 Elm St. on Clarkson's downtown campus, where it has been located for decades.Notable alumni
- Kaitlin Monte (2011 Miss New York)
- Barney AdamsBarney AdamsByron H. Adams , is an entrepreneur, the founder of Adams Golf, inventor of the Tight Lies fairway wood, holder of several patents on golf products, and author of The WOW Factor.-Biography:...
(Founder of Adams Golf) - Hugo BelangerHugo BelangerHugo P. Belanger is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey left wing. Belanger was selected in the 8th round in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft by the Chicago Blackhawks and went on to play 15 seasons in hockey’s minor leagues....
(hockey player, Adirondack Hockey Hall of Fame) - Bob ChiarelliBob ChiarelliRobert "Bob" Chiarelli is a Canadian politician. He served in the Ontario Legislative Assembly from 1987 to 1997, and was subsequently re-elected to the legislature in 2010 after serving as regional chair and mayor of Ottawa from 1997 to 2006...
(former mayor, Ottawa, Canada) - Chris ClarkChris Clark (hockey player)Chris Clark is a professional ice hockey right winger who plays for the Providence Bruins of the AHL.-College career:Clark played four years for the Clarkson Golden Knights in the ECAC , posting 128 points and 392 penalty minutes in 142 games...
(hockey player) - Erik ColeErik ColeErik Cole is an American professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League . He has played most of his career with the Carolina Hurricanes. He also played a brief stint with the Edmonton Oilers before returning to Carolina in 2009...
(hockey player, Olympian, Stanley Cup champion) - Craig ConroyCraig ConroyCraig Conroy is an American former professional ice hockey player and currently the Special Assistant to the General Manager of the Calgary Flames. A sixth round selection of the Montreal Canadiens at the 1990 National Hockey League Entry Draft, Conroy played 1,009 NHL games for the Canadiens, St...
(hockey player, Olympian) - Grant ClitsomeGrant ClitsomeGrant Clitsome is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
(Hockey Player, Columbus Blue Jackets) - Gregory C. FarringtonGregory C. FarringtonGregory C. Farrington was the 12th President of Lehigh University. Prior to his appointment in 1998, he served as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania....
(Former president of Lehigh University, Executive Director of The California Academy of Sciences) - Harvey GlattHarvey GlattHarvey Glatt is a notable and award-winning Canadian music promoter, manager, broadcaster, record and instrument retailer, and record label owner.- History :...
(founder of CHEZ-FMCHEZ-FMCHEZ-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts classic rock at 106.1 FM in Ottawa. The station uses the brand name CHEZ 106 .-History:...
radio and notable Canadian music impresarioImpresarioAn impresario is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays or operas; analogous to a film producer in filmmaking, television production and an angel investor in business...
) - Paul HornPaul Horn (computer scientist)Dr. Paul M. Horn is an American computer scientist and solid state physicist who has made contributions to pervasive computing, pioneered the use of copper and self-assembly in chip manufacturing, and he helped manage the development of deep computing, an important tool that provides business...
(sr. vice president, R&D, IBM) - Kent HuskinsKent HuskinsKent Huskins is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:Before making his NHL debut with the Ducks in 2006, he played five seasons in the AHL...
(hockey player, Stanley Cup champion) - Roger JohnsonRoger Johnson (California)Roger Johnson was an American businessman and government official. Johnson was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of an AFL-CIO leader...
(American businessman and government official) - Randy Jones (hockey player)
- Georgia Keresty (president, JANSSEN Alzheimer Immunotherapy Research & Development, LLC)
- Craig LaughlinCraig LaughlinCraig Alan Laughlin is a retired Canadian ice hockey right wing and color analyst for the Washington Capitals on CSN Washington.Laughlin was drafted in 1977 by the Montreal Canadiens...
(hockey player, television color analyst for Washington Capitals games) - Todd MarchantTodd MarchantTodd Marchant is a retired American professional ice hockey player who played 17 seasons in the National Hockey League . He played nine seasons with the Edmonton Oilers and almost six seasons with the Anaheim Ducks, along with just over a season with the Columbus Blue Jackets and a game with the...
(hockey player, Olympian, Stanley Cup champion) - Patrick NaughtonPatrick NaughtonPatrick Naughton is an American software developer, best known as being one of the original creators of the Java programming language.-Working for Sun:...
(co-creator of Java programming language) - Russ NelsonRuss NelsonRussell "Russ" Nelson is an American computer programmer. He was a founding board member of the Open Source Initiative and briefly served as its president in 2005.-Career:...
(Open Source InitiativeOpen Source InitiativeThe Open Source Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software.The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, prompted by Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product...
board member) - Willie Mitchell (hockey player)
- Colin Patterson (hockey player, Stanley Cup champion)
- Jack Phillips (Major League Baseball player, and a long-time Golden Knights coach)
- Katherina ReicheKatherina ReicheKatherina Reiche is a German politician. She has been deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU's parliamentary group since 2005....
(German politician) - Martin RoeschMartin RoeschMartin Roesch founded Sourcefire in 2001 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. A respected authority on intrusion prevention and detection technology and forensics, he is responsible for the technical direction and product development efforts...
(author of SnortSnort (software)Snort is a free and open source network intrusion prevention system and network intrusion detection system , created by Martin Roesch in 1998...
and founder of SourcefireSourcefireSourcefire, Inc develops network security hardware and software. The Sourcefire 3D System is based on Snort, an open-source intrusion detection engine.-Background:...
) - Dede Scozzafava (former congressional candidate and current New York State Assemblywoman)
- Mike Smith (NHL hockey executive)
- Dave TaylorDave Taylor (hockey)David Andrew Taylor is a retired professional ice hockey player who played for the Los Angeles Kings from 1977–94. He was previously the Kings' general manager from 1997 to 2006. Taylor currently is the Director of Player Personnel with the St...
(hockey player, NHL hockey executive) - Paul TonkoPaul TonkoPaul David Tonko is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2009. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is located in the heart of the Capital District...
(Congressman for New York's 21st congressional district) - M. Emmet WalshM. Emmet WalshMichael Emmet Walsh is an American actor who has appeared in over 100 film and television productions.-Life and career:Walsh was born in Ogdensburg, New York, the son of Agnes Kathrine and Harry Maurice Walsh, Sr., a customs agent...
(actor) - Shawn WellerShawn WellerShawn Weller is a professional ice hockey left winger playing for the St. John's Ice Caps of the American Hockey League...
(hockey player) - Todd WhiteTodd WhiteTodd White is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played junior hockey for the Kanata Valley Lazers of the CJHL before heading to Clarkson University on a scholarship. As a senior, he was a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award.-Playing career:Todd White signed as a free agent with...
(hockey player) - Steven ZalewskiSteven ZalewskiSteven "Steve" Zalewski is an American ice hockey center for the Albany Devils of the American Hockey League...
(hockey player) - Nick DodgeNick DodgeNick Dodge is an Canadian ice hockey right wing currently playing for the Charlotte Checkers of the American Hockey League...
(hockey player) - Mark P Kahler (Intellectual Property Attorney)
- Sharon Stevens Chadwick (Science Librarian , Humboldt State University)