Enjoyable for the entire household

Family Weekend 2025 gives a fun-filled schedule of occasions for households and college students to take pleasure in. 

LILY O’CONNOR | NEWS EDITOR | lkoconnor@butler.edu 

Students and their households will likely be celebrating Family Weekend on Oct. 10-12. There will likely be an assortment of actions and occasions all through the weekend accessible for all college students to take part in, whether or not with household or not. Additionally, many educational buildings, educational departments, golf equipment and sports activities groups will likely be internet hosting their very own open homes, open practices and excursions. 

Throughout the weekend, there will likely be a number of athletic occasions, together with volleyball internet hosting matches in opposition to Providence on Oct. 10 and the University of Connecticut on Oct.11, football taking up Presbyterian and men’s soccer rounding out the sports activities with a match in opposition to Marquette each on Oct. 11. There may even be 4 showings of Butler Theatre’s manufacturing of The Cat Who Walked by Himself.

Jummah Prayer: Oct. 10, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Muslim college students and households can collect for Jummah Prayer service hosted by Butler’s Muslim Student Association in Levinson Family Hall Room 127 by emailing satmar@butler.edu to register.

Shabbat Service: Oct. 10, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

A household Shabbat service, hosted by Butler’s Hillel, will likely be held on the Emfroymson Center for Creative Writing, adopted by a dinner. Registration is accessible by means of emailing lbfrank@butler.edu. 

Trivia Night: Oct. 10, 8:30 p.m. – 11 p.m.

Students and households can kind groups and register on the Family Weekend registration kind to check their information in a trivia occasion within the Reilly Room of Atherton Union. Snacks and prizes will likely be accessible. 

Cultural Diversity Drum Circle’s Basket Balancing Race: Oct. 11, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Student groups will compete in racing whereas balancing baskets on their heads, hosted by Cultural Diversity Drum Circle at Star Fountain in help of ladies’ schooling in Uganda. Spectators will get an opportunity to attempt it out for themselves.

Build a Bulldog: Oct. 11, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. and 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Materials to make a stuffed bulldog with a personalized t-shirt will likely be offered within the Fairview House Community Room for $15 a chunk. Sign-ups can be found on the Family Weekend Registration kind.

Spirit Zone: Oct. 11, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Tailgate for the soccer recreation vs. Presbyterian with garden video games, snacks and picture alternatives on the Health and Recreation Center garden. Spirit beads, increase sticks and pom poms may even be handed out.

The Science of Food: Oct. 11, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Students and households of all ages can enroll on the Family Weekend Registration kind to take part in science experiments, style rustic French delicacies and discover the chemistry behind meals hosted by the Chemistry Department. 

Black Student Union and Black Alumni Association Tailgate: Oct. 11, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Tailgate earlier than the soccer recreation with the Black Student Union and Black Alumni Association. There may even be garden video games and picture alternatives.

Latinx Alumni Association Family Tailgate: Oct. 11, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Join the Latinx Alumni Association for his or her fifth annual Family Weekend tailgate earlier than the soccer recreation, devoted to connecting Latinx college students and households by means of meals, music and neighborhood. 

Fall Market: Oct. 11, 3 p.m. – 6 p.m.

University Program Council will host their annual Fall Market on the North Mall. Local distributors for handmade items and seasonal meals will likely be in attendance.

Let the Ghouls Times Roll: Oct. 11, 8 p.m. – 11 p.m.

All college students and households can enroll on the Family Weekend Registration kind and cease by Atherton Union’s Reilly Room in Halloween costumes for crafts, equivalent to pumpkin portray, and sweet.

Catholic Mass: Oct. 12, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.

Butler Catholic Community will host a Mass within the Reilly Room in Atherton Union.

Fraternity and Sorority House Tours: Oct. 12, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Butler’s seven Panhellenic sororities and 7 Interfraternity Council fraternities will host home excursions to share extra about the way to be part of Greek Life and their philanthropic work.

The occasions fluctuate in value, which will be discovered on Butler’s Family Weekend website together with the total schedule and the Family Weekend Registration kind.

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