Performances

I've said before that Oxford favors specialization over well-roundedness. There's one area, however, in which the university is more open than IU, and that area is performing arts. It's much easier for students outside the theater and music departments to find groups to perform with. Most colleges have an orchestra, a drama society, or both. The university-wide orchestras have open auditions at the beginning of the year, and there are a plenty of student groups that put on their own productions.

Naturally, these groups still attract mostly theater and music majors, since they're more committed to the kind of work involved, but there's a healthy mix of humanities and science majors participating in most shows; this is not something that you find very often at IU.