Billiard tables, table tennis, pin ball, computer games, and card tables are available for an array of gaming activities. A hospitality room that can be sub-divided into five separate meeting salons located on the top floor is available to University organizations. Venture offers experiential learning, non-credit courses and workshops in outdoor settings. Activities include weekend trips in a variety of outdoor sports from backpacking to kayaking, and programs at our on-campus team building course and high ropes challenge course. Venture programs are modeled on Outward Bound and are designed to facilitate individual growth through physical challenge, group interaction, and personal reflection.
Venture houses a resource library to help individuals plan their own trips.
Outdoor camping gear can be rented. Venture also offers courses for academic credit through the Department of Health Promotion and Kinesiology. Each fall, a three-credit course, Wilderness Experience, offers an adapted Outward Bound experience presenting a series of increasing challenges. A variety of one-credit outdoor activity courses also is offered. The Student Body Government provides students an early experience in governmental affairs.