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Campus Favorites
So, what’s hot on the WVU campus? We went right to the experts to find out – our current students! What follows is a list of popular responses from a survey conducted during the fall 2008 semester.
Best WVU Traditions
- Singing “Country Roads”
- Football games
- Marching band’s pre-game show
- PRT cram contest during Mountaineer Week
- Mountaineer mascot
- First down cheer at football games
- “Let’s Go…Mountaineers!” cheer
- FallFest
- Lighting of Woodburn Hall for the holidays
Favorite Things to do at the Student Recreation Center
- Swim
- Run on the elevated track
- Basketball
- Fitness classes (e.g., zumba, pilates, spinning, & yoga)
- Rock climb
- Lift weights
- Racquetball
- Exercise machines (e.g., elliptical & treadmill)
- Relax in the hot tub and whirlpool
- Badminton
Best Free Entertainment
- FallFest
- Football & basketball games
- Comedy Caravan
- WVUp All Night
- Wednesday night foreign films at Gluck Theatre
- Guest speakers & special events like Mountaineer Week
- People-watching
- Any WVU sporting event
- Enjoying nature at local parks & Core Arboretum
- Free Creative Arts Center events
Best Place to Pretend You’re Studying
- Mountainlair
- Downtown Campus Library – indoors or outside on the front lawn
- Residence hall
- Woodburn Circle
- Vandalia Lounge in the Mountainlair
- At a friend’s house or dorm room
- Computer labs
- Outdoors, on a bench
- E. Moore Hall
- Creative Arts Center lobby
Best Places to Really Study
- Downtown Campus Library, especially the Robinson & Milano Reading Rooms and the 4th floor
- Evansdale Library
- Dorm room or apartment
- Health Sciences Center Library
- Group study rooms in the libraries
- Mountainlair
- E. Moore Hall
- Blue & Gold Study Rooms in Towers
- Coliseum
Best Place on Campus to Hang Out with Friends
- Mountainlair
- Mountainlair Green
- Side Pocket Pub & Mountainlair games area
- Woodburn Circle
- Student Rec Center
- Game days at Milan Puskar Stadium
- Residence halls
- Library
- In front of the Mountainlair
- Eliza’s Cafe
Best Late Night Pizza
- Casa D’ Amici
- Cantoni’s
- Pizza Al’s
- Papa John’s
- D P Dough (calzones)
- Little Caesars
- Bent Willey’s
- Vinny’s
- Vocelli Pizza
Best Local Outdoor Destination
- Coopers Rock State Forest
- Cheat Lake
- Rail Trails
- Core Arboretum
- Blue Hole
- White Park
- Dorsey’s Knob
- Wisp Ski Resort
- Arden Falls
- WVU Research Forest
Best Class
- Introduction to Sociology
- Principles of Human Communication
- Introduction to Western Civilization I
- Bowling
- Orientation: First-Year Experience
- Human Sexuality
- Introduction to American Government
- Appreciation of Motion Pictures
- West Virginia Natural Resources
- Appreciation of Visual Arts
- State and Local Government
- Introduction to Mass Communication
Toughest Class that You’ll Love
- Principles of Biology I
- English Composition and Rhetoric
- Calculus
- Fundamentals of Chemistry
- Principles of Accounting
- Introduction to Western Civilization I
- Organic Chemistry
- Introduction to Psychology
- Introductory Physics
- Incompressible Aerodynamics
- Hitler & the Third Reich
- Law and the Legal System
- Gross Anatomy/Gross Anatomy Lab
- History of Western Musical Traditions II
- Marketing Research
