Student activities

These materials originally belonged to the Center for Gender Equity. The collection contains a few originally designed shirts for specific events hosted by the center, posters advertising various events, buttons, and a Slam Poetry program.

The students at Pacific University and Tualatin Academy, which was one of the earliest institutions of higher education in Oregon, created many literary magazines in the 1850's and 1860's. This collection contains many examples of such handwritten serial publications authored and edited by these students.

The Pacific University Forensics Collection includes speech and debate programs, written orations, news clippings related to oratorical events paticipated in or attended by Pacific University students. Also included is a scrapbook of Pacific University music and debate programs probably made by a class of 1900 student. Many events were sponsored by the Inter-Collegiate Oratorial Association of Oregon.

The Intercollegiate Knights, a national fraternal society originally known as the "Badger Knights" until 1948, was a service organization on the Pacific campus only available to Freshman and Sophomore boys. This collection includes the Intercollegiate Knight scrapbook from the years of 1957 to 1965 as well as the pamphlets for two dances hosted by the Intercollegiate Knights and the Boxerettes.

Kappa Delta, later known as Alpha Kappa Delta, has been a sorority at Pacific University since 1904. This collection includes three ledger books with meeting minutes and attendance lists involving the sorority from the years of 1947-1965, and a scrapbook that their members created in the late 1960s.

The Luau collection includes promotional posters issued for the annual Pacific University Luau, photo albums of the Lu'au events over the years made by those in the Hawaii Club, Luau programs, a slide show script for the backdrop of Luau, loose photographs and VHS tapes of the Lu'au events.

May Day, a festival in honor of spring, was held annually on the Pacific University campus from 1914-1966. This collection includes a variety of related printed and handwritten materials, including pageant reports, scripts, proclamations, programs, invitations and news clippings.

This collection contains programs for musical performances held by Pacific University students and staff from the 1880s to 1993.

Pacific University, founded in 1849, has advertised itself through promotional publications since the late 1800s. This collection includes viewbooks, pamphlets, fliers, brochures, postcards, calendars and other material that the university issued in order to attract new students, aid fundraising efforts, and advertise its activities.

Pacific University dates to 1848 in Forest Grove, Oregon. This collection documents its corporate memory and includes materials pertaining to administrative, curricular, and student activities, including minutes, correspondence, brochures, catalogs, reports, newsletters, photographs, and related items.