<p>I've been looking at the clubs and it's not clear as to how much they really cost. For example, the climbing club says it's only $20 to join. Does this include the cost to flying out to the climbing mountains? It seems too good to be true. Same thing goes with the skydiving and snowboarding clubs. Does the university support the costs?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure it's $20 to JOIN, and all separate expenses are you and your club's responsibility. Basically that 20 bucks is your membership fee.</p>
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<p>Sometimes. There's a large budget for student activities that gets split among all the various clubs. So yeah, sometimes certain activities are paid for. Often, they're not, and you have to pay some amount of money.</p>
<p>The only fee I've ever paid was $10 for College Republicans, and I've been involved in at least 10 different clubs. Usually, the membership fee covers things that would usually cost a lot more, so it's all good.</p>
<p>maybe this is a stupid question, but:</p>
<p>for clubs such as "circle k" and other community service clubs, why do you have to pay money? it seems counter-intuitive. moreover, what is the point of joining a community service club?</p>
<p>i can do community service on my own without paying. i can do community service in groups without paying. </p>
<p>i'm asking out of ignorance, because i assume there must be a reason to join such clubs.</p>
<p>I've never had to pay for community service stuff (I've done Relay for Life, Detroit Project, NewLife Kids (aka babysitting), along with random short term things through student clubs).</p>
<p>So if I join a club, am I obligated to go to every meeting and every event? I want to join a lot of clubs so that I can do what ever I feel like doing at the time. One weekend I could go snowboarding, the next weekend go wakeboarding, another weekend go mountain climbing, and another weekend go skydiving, etc., and if I didn't feel like doing anything I could just stay home and catch up on my homework. I have a feeling it doesn't work like that.</p>
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One weekend I could go snowboarding, the next weekend go wakeboarding, another weekend go mountain climbing, and another weekend go skydiving, etc
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<p>It's totally dependent on the club. I know bowling, for example, is very very serious about attending every meeting and so on. Many other clubs, you can go whenever you feel like it.</p>
<p>That said, you have a very unrealistic view of how your weekends will go at Michigan. Unless you have an enormous, enormous budget. Also, you should check out that the clubs you're interested are actually active. As far as I can tell, the mountain climbing club at Michigan is dead (though I might be wrong on that.) This happens periodically with clubs, until someone revives them.</p>
<p>It depends on if you're talking about a club sport or just a regular club.</p>
<p>Here's how it works with the cycling club (as an example):</p>
<p>It costs $40 to join the club to get sponsorship deals, invites to club events (including the spring break trip to Georgia), and other miscellaneous stuff.</p>
<p>If you want to race, it costs $150 per semester (or $250 for both). This pays for travel to the races (vans and gas) and hotels. You still have to pay for equipment, entry fees, and food. There's no commitment to race a certain number of races - you can do as many or as few as your schedule allows.</p>
<p>Since cycling is a club sport, they get a certain allowance from the U-M Department of Recreational Sports to rent vans (through U-M) and pay for gas and hotels. Other club sports get similar funding.</p>
<p>It sounds like the $20 you're talking about in your original post is to join the club. You'll pay for the trips separately.</p>