House Activities
What is there to do in Broadview?
Socialize: Weekly movie nights, coffee hours, and study breaks.
Play: Night games of soccer, Frisbee, and snowball fights near the Museum of Science and Industry.
Eat: House dinners hosted by RHs at least once a quarter. Broadview also hosts its own Midnight Pancake Breakfast on Monday morning of each finals week, like the campus-wide one that happens in Reynolds. We don't have to go to campus in the middle of the night or fight hundreds of other students for our pancakes.
Get fit: Join an IM team, like the defending champion Broadview Broads women's flag football team, or the champion co-ed flag football team. Or play broomball, basketball, kickball, foosball, bowling, indoor soccer, or any of the many other IM sports in which Broadview Hall or our houses have teams.
Get out: Hall-wide trips have included apple picking, a river cruise, and the opera. House trips are very common, as are groups going downtown spontaneously. We live right on the bus routes, so it's incredibly convenient. Broadviewites go to Chinatown, Devon, Belmont, and downtown to eat out; we go to the symphony and to comedy shows, and we see movies, sing karaoke, and visit hookah bars.
Stay in: Watch housemates wage epic Risk and chess battles. Compete in said battles. Play Dance Dance Revolution in the Masters' Suite every Friday night ("a quasi-cultish Broadview activity"-Liz Selbst '08, Wick House). Join in the Wick house poker night. Play pool, foosball, and arcade games in the ballroom.
Broadview special events
Every Sunday morning the program coordinators run a Broadview breakfast from 9-11, including newspapers, coffee, cereal, and good company.
For Halloween we had a bunch of kids from the area come through trick or treating: everyone dressed up and gave out candy and we put things together to entertain the kids, including a magic show, a haunted house, and a reading of "The Telltale Heart."
Annually Broadview hosts a chili cook-off. Dean of Admissions Ted O'Neill always competes.
The Broadview coffee house provides a chance to showcase your artistic talents in winter quarter. Don Randel, the President of the University, has come to talk to students at a reception in the Broadview library.
A week in the life of the Palmer house lounge:
SUNDAY: Early risers begin to sit in the lounge reading, doing homework, or watching TV by late morning. Sunday afternoon often involves a football game in the background as people are in and out all day on their own study breaks. The RHs' kids (ages 4 and 9) sometimes put on a movie. Sunday night there's The Simpsons (7 pm), Desperate Housewives (8 pm), and then house meeting at 9:30, immediately followed by the weekly study break. Afterward, people who have finished their homework (or are the ultimate procrastinators) sit around talking while Jerry (RH) and Neeta (RA) make up lists of the week's events to post by the elevator doors.
WEEKDAYS: Usually someone turns up in the lounge by late afternoon reading, doing homework, or watching daytime network TV (Divorce Court, COPS, Korean soaps) - or the ubiquitous Family Guy DVDs. Often our RH will bring her son up in the late afternoon to watch Hey Arthur and other PBS kids shows - a disturbing number of college students will stay in the lounge for this. Usually a large group will leave en masse for the dinner from the lounge somewhere around 5:30-6:00.
WEEKDAY EVENINGS: Wednesday nights is Alias at 8:00 and the RA's coffee hour at 10:00 (during tenth and eleventh week there's a study break every night at 10). Thursday nights are the OC at 7:00, then movie night at 8:00 (students sign up to show a double feature of their favorite movies). Fridays the RHs' daughter sometimes hosts her own, family-friendly movie night at seven. Otherwise, people are in the lounge hanging around, watching DVDs, or playing X-box. And most nights at 11:30, there's true quality with Elimidate.
SATURDAY: Much like Sunday, with people in and out all day. Some TV, some movies, much hanging around. Late Saturday night may involve some entertaining entrances as party-goers return.