Student Activities

The Center for Student Life and First-Year Programs holds regular on-campus activities and events to enhance your college experience at HPU. These activities are great opportunities to take a break and have fun, and we encourage you to get involved in them. At HPU, your classes will be rigorous and academics will need to be your top priority. You’ll want to balance the academic side of college life with the social side. Participating in on-campus and off-campus activities will help you relieve stress, make new friends, and just have fun. The Student Life Events Calendar lists all the events and activities at the downtown and Hawaii Loa campuses. Here is just a sampling of the cool events presented by the Center for Student Life & First-Year Programs throughout the year:

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Club Carnival

College students share similar goals of meeting new people and finding ways to get involved. The Center for Student Life & First-Year Programs supports these goals by offering fun, entertaining, educational, and innovative programs and activities. Club Carnival is a bi-annual event that takes place on Fort Street Mall. It features booths by HPU’s Registered Student Organizations (clubs and organizations) at the beginning of each semester.

 

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The Center for Student Life and First-Year Programs supports Registered Student Organizations which fall into three categories: academic/ professional, cultural/ spiritual, and special interest. A complete list of active clubs is available on the Club and Organizations website.

 Da Freakshow

Every year the freaks come out from hiding to show their talents and skills to the HPU community in the historic Hawaii Theatre at HPU’s annual talent show, dubbed Da Freakshow. Sharky and friends treat the audience to everything from contemporary dance to contact juggling.  

 

billy first place prize

2012 Da Freakshow Winners

1st Place- Asthmaticz: Gus Avellaneda, Khristine Brunn, Ben Camello, Michael Colon-Yoshimoto, Nicole Fagaragan, James Graham, Jeremiah Lacuesta, Allan Ladao, Christopher Namnama, Bianca Nicolas, Aira Pajarillo, Glory Rojo, Dylan Tamaribuchi, Jesse Victor, and Janelle Wong 

2nd Place- Something Creative: Rochelle Nicholson, Josh Buted, and Mic Buted 

3rd Place- Taylor Lee 

 

      

contact juggling

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Halloween Hoopla

Halloween Hoopla is HPU’s annual spooktacular celebration that introduces the members of the HPU Men’s and Women’s basketball teams and features a performance by the HPU national champion Cheer and Dance Teams. Hoopla entertains guests with door prizes, adult and keiki costume contests, trick-or-treating, and various other booths filled with games and other spooky fun, set up by HPU student clubs and organizations.

 

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For more information contact:

Hawai'i Pacific University
Center for Student Life and First-Year Programs
1188 Fort Street Mall, Suite 105 Honolulu, HI 96813 U.S.A.
Telephone: (808) 544-0277
FAX: (808) 566-2441
Email: studentlife@hpu.edu

Club Carnival 

College students share similar goals of meeting new people and finding ways to get involved. The Center for Student Life & First-Year Programs supports these goals by offering fun, entertaining, educational, and innovated programs and activities. Club Carnival is a bi-annual event that takes place on Fort Street Mall. It features booths by HPU’s Registered Student Organizations (clubs and organizations) at the beginning of each semester.

When you get involved at HPU, you will have the opportunity to 

  • Meet new people with similar interests 
  • Develop your leadership potential 
  • Be exposed to new ideas and people from around the globe 
  • Enrich your HPU experience 

Da Freakshow

Every year the freaks come out from hiding to show their talents and skills to the HPU community in the historic Hawaii Theatre at HPU’s annual talent show. “Sharky” and friends treat the audience to everything from contemporary dance to contact juggling.

 



Halloween Hoopla

Halloween Hoopla is HPU’s annual spooktacular celebration that introduces the members of the HPU Men’s and Women’s basketball teams and features a performance by the HPU national champion Cheer and Dance Teams. Hoopla entertains guests with door prizes, adult and keiki costume contests, trick-or-treating, and various other booths filled with games and other spooky fun, set up by HPU student clubs and organizations.