student socıetıes booklet 2015-2016

STUDENT SOCIETIES
BOOKLET 2015-2016
This book has been prepared by Koç University’s Office of the Dean of
Students for Student Activities and Volunteer Projects as an introduction to
Koç University’s student societies.
KOÇ UNIVERSITY IN NUMBERS
6708 Students
Nearly 9750 Alumni
Continuous and Non-Refundable Scholarship for 2 out every 3 students
480 Lecturers
22 Majors
32 MA Programs
19 PhD Programs
112 Research Labs
16 Research Centers
Dormitory facilities for 2345 students and extensive sports facilities
Nearly 80 Clubs
24-Hour Library
230 Student Exchange Partner Universities
STUDENT SOCIETIES
A
AICHE
Ataturk Ideology and Turkish World
B
Business Club
Business Club-KUWIB (Women In Business)
C
Capeoira Group
Cinema Club
Cylcling
D
Dance Club
Debate Club
Diving and Underwater Research Club
E
Eco-politics Club
Economy Club
EKUAL Group
Entrepreneurs Club
F
Fan Clubs
Fan Clubs – Beşiktaş
Fan Clubs - Fenerbahçe
Fan Clubs - Galatasaray
Fantasy Role Playing (FRP)
Folk Dance
I
IEEE
Industrial Engineering Society (IES)
Information Techonology
Investment
K
Krav Maga
Ku Francophones
KU Volunteers
KU Volunteers – Animal Lovers
KU Volunteers – Awareness
KU Volunteers – Environment
KU Volunteers – KET
KU Volunteers – Make a Wish
KUArt
KUArt – Humour
KUArt – Marbling
KUArt – Painting
KUDJs
KUFuture
KU-GEN
Kuir (LGBTİ)
KUPilots
KU-Radio
Ku-Shot
L
Law
Literature
M
Marketing
Model United Nations (MUN)
Mountaineering
Music
Music Orchestra
Musical
N
Nursing
P
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
S
Sailing
Science
Social Activities Club
Society and Thought
Society of Women Engineers (KUSWE)
Society of Mechanical Engineers
Spanish
T
Theatre Actors
Theatre Organization
Travel Club
Turkish Music Group
Y
Yoga
PRESIDENTS OF STUDENT SOCIETIES
AICHE
YÖRÜKCAN ERBAY
[email protected]
Atatürk Ideology and Turkish World
DENİZCAN DEDE
[email protected]
BAŞAK DEMİR
[email protected]
İBRAHİM ATA CAN CEREN
[email protected]
YEŞİM KAYA
[email protected]
Business Club
Business Club-KUWIB (Women In Business)
ASYA EKER
[email protected]
Capoeira
YILMAZ MERT KIZILIRMAK
[email protected]
Chess
YUNUS EMRE UYRUN
[email protected]
EGE CAN UZ
[email protected]
JİYAN ERİNCİK
[email protected]
Clubİstanbul
ELİF MERTAN
[email protected]
Cylcling
HACI GÖKHAN TANIŞALI
[email protected]
Dance
VOLKAN GÜNEY KURU
[email protected]
Debate
DAĞLAR ÖZKAN
[email protected]
Diving and Underwater Research Club
BURÇİN ÖNCÜ
[email protected]
GAMZE EVİRGEN
[email protected]
MİTHAT CAN ULUBAY
[email protected]
METE AKINAL
[email protected]
CAN PÜRÜZSÜZ
[email protected]
MUHAMMET NADİR EMRE ALPUN
[email protected]
HASAN BASRİ ÇİFCİ
[email protected]
BURAK YILMAZ
[email protected]
EGEMEN FİLİZ
[email protected]
Fan Clubs – Beşiktaş
NECDET KAAN MENDERES
[email protected]
Fan Clubs - Fenerbahçe
DENİZHAN BAŞAK
[email protected]
Fan Clubs - Galatasaray
ALİ HAYİT
[email protected]
ATİLLA FİLİNTA ABUŞOĞLU
[email protected]
AYŞE EGENUR AY
[email protected]
Folk Dance
ERDEM ÜLKER
[email protected]
Golf
EDA ARUN
[email protected]
PELİN PULCU
[email protected]
ARDA KAYGAN
[email protected]
Ilgaz Şaylan
Kıvanç Mete
[email protected]
[email protected]
ÖZGÜR CEM BİRLER
[email protected]
EGE ÖĞRETMEN
[email protected]
SÜLEYMAN CAN KABADAYI
[email protected]
Cinema
Economy
Eco-Politics
Ekual
Entrepreneurs
Fantasy Role Playing (FRP)
IEEE
Industrial Engineering Society (IES)
Information Techonology
Investment
HALUK OKAN SÖZÜER
[email protected]
Japanese
MURATCAN AŞGÜN
[email protected]
Krav Maga
KORHAN ALPER
[email protected]
NAZMİ MERT TÜRKBEN
[email protected]
CAN ALP MÜLAYİM
[email protected]
KU Volunteers
İDİL İŞÇİ
[email protected]
KU Volunteers – Animal Lovers
SEZİN EKİNCİ
[email protected]
KU Volunteers – Awareness
İLAYDA ÇETİN
[email protected]
EREN BİLEN
[email protected]
ÜMİT ERDEM YİĞİTOĞLU
[email protected]
NEVZAT ACAR
[email protected]
CANDAN ÇETİN
[email protected]
İMGE KARAYEL
[email protected]
GİZEM UZUNKÖPRÜ
[email protected]
OZAN AY
[email protected]
ATİFET MERVE IŞILDAR
[email protected]
KUArt
HİLAL ŞENEL
[email protected]
KUArt – Humour
SEDA ANBARCI
[email protected]
KUArt – Marbling
EYÜP İLKER CAMGÖZ
[email protected]
KUArt – Painting
NURHAN HESNA AKSOY
[email protected]
KUDJs
DENİZ ÇINAR ÇABUK
[email protected]
MUSTAFA SERDAR İÇTÜZER
[email protected]
SEZEN GÜRLEK
[email protected]
KU-GEN
DAMLA ÖVEK
[email protected]
Kuir (LGBTİ)
İLKİZ BİLEM GÜRBÜZ
[email protected]
KUPilots
TOLUNAY ÖNDÜL
[email protected]
KU-Radio
MÜBECCEL BERTUĞ BALOĞLU
[email protected]
Ku-Shot
ÇAĞATAY GÜRBAY
[email protected]
Law
ATAKAN ERCAN
[email protected]
Literature
HASAN BASRİ ÇİFCİ
[email protected]
YUSUF BURAK TOPUZ
[email protected]
UTKU SEÇKİN
[email protected]
KEMAL UMUR SABUR
[email protected]
ECE ERGÜDEN
[email protected]
Mountaineering
NURSEN YILMAZ
[email protected]
Music
BEYHAN ÖZÜN ÖZKAN
[email protected]
EGEMEN GENÇ
[email protected]
ELİF MELİS ÖZSOY
[email protected]
MEHMET SİLAHTAR
[email protected]
CANSU EREŞİCİ
[email protected]
Nursing
GULTEN ALAKOYUN
[email protected]
Philosophy
ELİZ ERDİM
[email protected]
Politics
MUSTAFA SAİM BİRPINAR
[email protected]
Psychology
SUMRU DURANER
[email protected]
Ku Francophones
KU Volunteers – Environment
KU Volunteers – KET
KU Volunteers – Make a Wish
KUFuture
Marketing
Model United Nations (MUN)
Music Orchestra
Musical
Sailing
MUSTAFA ASFUROĞLU
[email protected]
Science
ÖMER EGE AÇIK
[email protected]
Social Activities Club
GÖKER AVCI
[email protected]
Society and Thought
İBRAHİM İNAL
[email protected]
MERVE SELÇUK
[email protected]
YAĞMUR ASLAN
[email protected]
Society of Mechanical Engineers
KAAN GEGEOĞLU
[email protected]
Spanish
GÖKÇE GÜL ÖNDER
DENİZ BETÜL ŞAHİN
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Theatre Organization
YEŞİM KAYA
[email protected]
Travel Club
ÖMER YOLUK
[email protected]
Turkish Music Group
EZGİ ÖZLEN SARAÇOĞLU
[email protected]
Yoga
SEDA SARP
[email protected]
Society of Women Engineers (KUSWE)
Theatre Actors
SONAT KAYMAZ
CYCLING CLUB
As the Koç University Cycling Club, our main goal is to explore and preserve nature by
pedaling through it. Our bike tours are geared towards cyclists of all levels and seek to
engender a love of cycling. While our tours have primarily targeted Koç students, we
hope to invite students from other universities in Istanbul in the near future, and
ultimately to involve all university students.
Our traditional “Island Tours” take place every semester
and provide wonderful opportunities to enjoy the fresh air
while cycling through a safe route.
We dissolve the pleasant fatigue remained from pedaling
in front of the unique scenery of the Bosporus. We also
offer bike tours in Garipçe Village, Feneryolu and such
other routes for advanced cyclists.
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY CLUB
Koç
University
Information
Technology Club has been
founded in the 2009-2010 academic year and is composed of
energetic and enthusiastic students. The primary goal of the
club is to improve student literacy, first and foremost at Koç
University, in computers, electronic communications and the
web. We also follow and spread the latest developments in
information technology and, offer various classes.
The Information Technology Club members have been working hard to educate the
students of Koç University on information technology in a short time since its
foundation. To these ends, we organize a variety of classes and seminars every
semester. The most important among these events is the traditional “Koç University
Information Technology Days.” We also put together gaming tournaments to give club
members a respite from school stress.
MOUNTAINEERING CLUB
Our main goal is to bring together those who love
nature and the mountains under the roof of the
“Mountaineering Club” and to organize activities and
training to our members. Koç University
Mountaineering Club is active within and outside the
campus. Our new members may attend out regular
on-campus
theoretical
training
sessions
in
mountaineering.
These sessions are offered by the experienced
members of the club and by professional
mountaineering instructors. The most important part of our activities takes place
outdoors. We organize a wide range of outdoors activities from day-long trekking
excursions to climbing Turkey’s major mountains. Everyone will find something to do
relating their own interests in our year-long events and our organization committees.
DANCE CLUB
As KOÇDANS, we bring hundreds of people together to dance each year. We have
nearly 400 active members and we offer a
variety of dancing lessons, including Tango,
Social Latin, International Latin, Hip Hop and
Belly Dancing. We offer lessons to beginners
as well as advanced dancers. We put
together show groups to represent our
school as best as we can in dance festivals
that take place on campus or other
university campuses.
We organize the Koç Dance Festival, the
only thematic festival of its kind, and get the
chance to esteemed dance groups from other universities.
We also organize many social activities other than dancing lessons and festivals. We try
to appeal to the entire student body with our weekly dance
nights, where we seek to improve everyone’s dancing skills and
to cultivate the desire to dance among students.
Our club continues to improve each year, and each year, it is
becoming more of a family where the members form life-long
friendships.
ECONOMY CLUB
As Koç University Economy Club, we run on a tight schedule.
Last December, we organized the Career School, where we invited McKinsey&Company
(Consulting), Finansbank (Treasury), AtaPortföy (Portfolio Management) and
Ernst&Young (Audit) to meet the students of Koç University. Thanks to this event,
students had a chance to get expert answers to their career questions.
We also participate in the Sector Days, a series of events that are jointly organized by
our university’s Career Center and student clubs. We organized the Finance Days, where
we hosted Coca-Cola, Ernst & Young and British American Tobacco Company.
ECONOMY AND POLITICS CLUB (ECO-POLITICS)
As the Eco-Politics Club, we are responsible for many “firsts” at Koç University. We have
hosted events where political leaders, former politicians and political scientists spoke
before a student audience about current issues.
We also established the first Think Tank concept of our university. We regularly
evaluate possible scenarios that may have an effect on our country, we also discuss and
offer solutions and strategies for domestic and international politics. As a group of 40
students, we have held weekly meetings on important issues such as the “Possible War
between Iran and Israel,” “The Kurdish Problem and the Question of Autonomy,”
“Conscientious Objection and the Mandatory Draft” and the “Possible Intervention to
Syria.”
eKUaL GROUP
eKUal Group has been established with support
from KOÇ-KAM. We defend social equality and
children’s’ rights within the broader framework of
human rights. Our goal is to work towards a
society where everyone is equally valued and has
equal rights. In the contemporary world, it is not
sufficient simply to understand and appreciate these values, one must also cultivate a
habit of respecting them. As dynamic, energetic and young members of our society, we
have a distinct advantage in helping the society at large in cultivating these habits. That
is why we wish to grow through receiving support from the Koç student body, and to
become powerful defenders of social equality.
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS CLUB (IES)
The IES Club was first founded as KUES Society in 2002, and attained club status as
KUEMT in 2005. After a complete overhaul of its membership structure, the club will
continue its existence as the Industrial Engineering Society as of the 2012-2013
academic year. Our club organizes a variety of seminars, panels, summits and technical
excursions. In addition to these regular events, we have completed the membership
process and became part of the national Association of Industrial Engineering Societies
in June 2012. We have thus expanded our sphere of influence and laid the foundation
for future collaboration with 15 other universities in Turkey.
FOLKLORE CLUB
The Koç University Folklore Club has been going
strong for eight years. Under the directorship of
Özgür Ülkem, who is a graduate of the Folk
Dances Department of ITU Conservatory and is
currently pursuing post-graduate training at the
same institution, our enthusiastic members seek
to promote Turkish culture through folk dances,
to represent our country and culture at various
international festivals, and to share their
enthusiasm with the student body.
The Folklore Club regularly attends festivals abroad and represents our country and our
university every year. We also organize the traditional Koç University Folklore Festival
that takes place in May every year.
KUFRP KOÇ UNIVERSITY ROLE PLAYING CLUB
With 30 active members, 8 different semester-long games and daily role playing events,
KUFRP continues to grow and mature every year.
With our past purchases, our library now serves our members with hundreds of new
fantasy novels and of a broad variety role playing systems.
Since 2010, we have been organizing KUnvention, a role playing event that attracted
over 200 participants from different universities and role-playing groups this year. For
two days, in KUnvention area that installed at our Engineering Faculty, participants from
dozens of universities in Istanbul and Ankara were our guests at a wonderful FRP event.
In 2012, we also established the Koç University Anime and Manga Group that we had
desired for years. Operating under KUFRP, this group has begun screening animes, and
showed us just how much fantasy literature and animes have in common. Our club was
fully present at a number of events, including Wizards of Istanbul, YUCON, Reflexion,
Conbo, KONTAKT 2 and many others.
NURSING CLUB
As the nursing club, we are engaged in a number of health-related and social activities.
Our club serves as an umbrella for 11 groups in total. As nursing students, we are
actively involved in a number of activities from dance groups to the welfare group, from
the theater group to the Sonses Journal. Furthermore, we also collaborate with other
clubs at Koç University. We organize a yearly nursing symposium that involves foreign
and national participants. As a club, our goal is to carry on our studies by contributing
to our students’ personal development with our events both in nursing and in other
areas.
LAW CLUB
Koç University Law Club began its operations in 2004.
While all Law students are members of our club by
default, we welcome all majors and we organize
seminars where we discuss current issues from a
legal perspective. We publish the annual Justitia et
Fides journal, which offers the opportunity of
publishing articles about several issues to law
students. Furthermore, global participation in our
student law symposium (“International Symposium
on Law and Global Issues”) has brought international
recognition to our club. To reinforce our theoretical
training with practice, we organize excursions to
national courts such as the Supreme Court and the
Court of Appeals and, international courts such as
the European Court of Human Rights and the
International Court of Justice. We also organize
regular dinner events which facilitate interaction
between students and faculty outside the classroom
and add some fun to our educational activities. While
performing all these activities, we also aim to
promote communication within the faculty’s student
body. We put our very best efforts into our events,
so our projects tend to be of very high quality and
value. Regardless of whether you are a law student or not, we would be genuinely
happy to see you in our club and we would love to share these beautiful events with
you.
IEEE CLUB
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), is an organization that
promotes
theoretical
and
practical
developments
in electrical, electronics,
computing, automation, telecommunication
and engineering. It is also one of the world’s
foremost non-profit organizations that seek to
create a social network for individuals who are
interested in these fields.
Koç IEEE Club was founded in 2003 by Koç
students, and welcomes social science
students in addition its main audience, which
comprises of engineering students. As an IEEE student branch, our club offers
opportunities to take part in national and international projects, serves our members
with millions of e-journals and technical magazines and keeps a highly sought-after CV
database that helps our members find jobs and internships.
Since its foundation, our club has been hosting a Fall event in the Engineering Faculty
courtyard that brings together lecturers and students, and celebrates the
commencement of the academic year at the Engineering Faculty. Our event offers a
relaxed atmosphere where you can mingle with the professors accompanied with music.
As Koç IEEE, we are working towards building closer relations between students and
faculty members.
As Koç IEEE, we have also hosted the first “Koç University Electrical-Electronics
Engineering Alumni Panel” in 2011.
BUSINESS CLUB
Founded in 1999, Koç University Business Club seeks to bring students closer to one
another, to get them to work with one another, to contribute to their professional
development and to merge the experience of the business world with the dynamism of
the university. Koç University Business Club works to help students build and maintain
business contacts while being still at school and to contribute to their careers after
school. Our club went through an overhaul in 2010 and, now has a new name, ‘KU
Business Club,’ and a new logo.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUB
According to the famous economist Schumpeter, an entrepreneur is someone who
offers services, products or innovations that make a difference in economical order. In
recent years, entrepreneurship has become an important global topic. New industries,
businesses and fields established by entrepreneurs as a result of their efforts offer not
only employment, but also spur the improvement by increasing competition. New
entrepreneurial organizations generate millions of dollars of revenue and millions of job
opportunities.
As Koç University Entrepreneurship Club, our goal is to educate our peers in
entrepreneurship, to offer classes as a means to
prevent the loss of good ideas, and to take part in a
wide variety of national and international projects. Our
greatest goals are to show that entrepreneurship is not
a minor, but a major, to offer classes and seminars, to
find an advisor who is also an entrepreneur, and to
make sure that good ideas reach the right audiences.
We have been working towards these goals and aspirations actively since the beginning
of the academic year.
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS (KUSWE)
KUSWE, is the first university branch of SWE, which was founded in
1950, outside the US. SWE has nearly 21.000 members worldwide.
KUSWE’s goals are to encourage female engineering students to
reach their highest potential as engineers and leaders and, to
promote the study of science and engineering by teaching these
fields in primary and high schools in a fun way. So far, we have
organized discussions with our professors, and the “Women in
Science & Engineering” event at Sariyer Primary School.
In the coming semester, we hope to bring the “WOW! That’s
Engineering” events, which SWE organizes at US high schools, to our
university. We also want to organize technical excursions and panels
for KU female engineering students, and to attend
SWE’s annual conference in Houston. We are open
to fresh ideas from our new members, and we
would love to see you in our young club.
KU-FB / UNI-FB Club
Fenerbahçe Fan Club is composed of Koç students who have a common love of
Fenerbahçe and our bound by heart to the navy-yellow colors. Our club organizes
conferences, events, and most importantly, trips to soccer games. The greatest goal of
our club is to forge life-long friendships – not simply college friendships - among Koç
students who have devoted themselves to Fenerbahçe. We hereby invite all Fenerbahçe
fans to our club.
KU-GENETICS GROUP (KUGEN)
KuGen has been established in 2011 by Koç University Molecular Biology and Genetics
students, and seeks to bring together students who have an interest in biology and
genetics. As a club, we seek to raise awareness about genetics at Koç University, to
create a common platform for all genetics-enthusiasts in our city and country by
organizing seminars and events, to organize trips to conferences, research centers and
workshops and thus to contribute to the education of our members, to help our
members’ career planning by introducing them to professional experts, and to announce
job and internship opportunities about the field. KuGen meets weekly to divide up the
work among its members, to assess ongoing projects, and to discuss our results. As
KuGen, we are always open to new ideas and we wish to fulfill our purpose as best as
we can by working with the feedback from our members.
KU-VOLUNTEERS CLUB
Koç University Volunteers Club has been working under the
Office of the Dean of Students since 2001. With more than 350
active volunteers, the club has organized innumerable projects,
first and foremost in the Sariyer Borough, but also in other
parts of Istanbul and of Turkey, and has reached many places
and helped many children.
Being a volunteer at Koç University Volunteers Club means to
make very good friends, to have fun, to travel thousands of
kilometers to build libraries in distant corners to Anatolia, to
make childrens’ dreams come true, to become older brothers
and sisters to Sariyer’s and KÜMYÜP’s children, to work hard,
and to return as a better volunteer next year.
Our club has organized many projects and established several groups during its 11 year
in operation.
Koç University Little Hearts Project (KÜMYÜP): We wake up
early Saturday mornings and go to the Social Services and Child
Protection Agency. After a Saturday morning filled with fun and
laughter, we say goodbye to those bright-eyed little hearts until next
Saturday.
Koç Education Society (KET): 30 teachers, who know nothing of Saturdays and
Sundays, work incessantly to bring equality to education. Seeing their efforts do some
good, seeing KET students do well on the high school entrance exams is their greatest
reward.
Awareness: Awareness rallies around the common goal
of increasing people’s awareness of and sensitivity towards
the environment. We generate funds during the Languor
Fair, and use the money to build libraries in distant cities.
We build classrooms and nurseries for disabled children.
We organize the Enabled Show where people who defy
disability meet. The Awareness Group is where people sing
and dance together, it is where great friendships are
forged.
Share Your Dream: We work day and night to fulfill the wishes of severely ill children
between the ages 3 and 18, to make them happy and to see the smile in their eyes.
KU-Environment: KU-Environment volunteers working within KU Volunteers seeks to
raise environmental and animal awareness on campus and in Sariyer.
E-mail:[email protected]
Website:www.kugonulluleri.ku.edu.tr
MODEL UNITED NATIONS CLUB (MUN)
Koç University Model United Nations Club has been founded in 1996. Since the
foundation of the club, Koç students have had first hand experience as delegates in
discussing global politics and issues. We also had the chance to meet students from
other countries during conferences at home and abroad. Our activities encourage
teamwork. In 2001, Harvard WorldMUN took place in Istanbul, and was the result of the
collaboration between Koç University and Harvard University. During the conferences
that we attended in the previous levels, our club has received many awards and
sustained a high level of success. During the conference preparations, our members
tirelessly conduct research current events, and each year, voice views and perspectives
that are consistent with the policies of the countries that they are representing. After
the recent restructuring process, our club will proceed to add to its achievements and
will continue its work with highly motivated new members who wish to learn diplomacy
by doing it.
DEBATE CLUB
Koç Debate has been founded as a debate team in 1999, and
became institutionalized in 2001 as a club. Koç University
Debate Club meets regularly every week for debate lessons and
practice. Throughout the year, we attend debate tournaments
in many Turkish cities like Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Konya,
Isparta and Tekirdağ, and attend European and World
Championships in countries such as the Netherlands, Botswana,
the Philippines, Germany, Ireland, England and Serbia. Koç
debaters hone their skills in these tournaments, where issues
such as law, economy, individual-state relations, international
relations and sports are discussed; but they also have fun at
the social functions that take place during the tournament.
In Turkey, Koç University Debate Club has won the Istanbul Area National
Championship as well as the Tournament Best Speaker Award. Internationally, the club
has been climbing the ranks of the World Championship since 2008 and became the
first Turkish team to make it to the semi-finals. Alongside its success at other
tournaments, Koç Debate Club has also organized its own tournaments in Turkish and in
English. It has participated in the 2007 European Championship, 2010 World
Championship and 2012 Mediterranean Universities Debate Championship.
MUSIC CLUB
As the Music Club, we have organized many entertaining and
successful events. In 2011-2012, we have put together three
major events. During the Music Days that took place on March 58, 2012, we hosted Gevende, Büyük Ev Ablukada, Meet the
Beetles and Ceylan Ertem. During the music days, we heard
some excellent tunes and had a lot of fun.
During our AmateurFest on April 26, we just saw again how
many great musicians there are on our campus.
Finally on May 11, we organized a Music Club night, where our new choir Kurist made
its debut.
We have offered some very successful instrument lessons and
student-to-student music lessons since the beginning of the
academic year.
With our Recording Technologies Seminar, we offered a four-week
training course to our friends who are interested in the technical
aspects of music and wish to become professional music producers.
As Koç University Music Club, we will continue to do music-filled
entertaining work in the coming years!
MUSICAL CLUB
Koç University Musical Club has been founded by
Hilal Başer in 2011. Our club, called “Ladies &
Gentlemen Koç University Musical Club” comprises of
a group of passionate students who sing solo or in
our polyphonic choir, who dance and act. Our
musical director is Çelik Kasapoğlu, who has a large
repertoire that includes mostly London and
Broadway Musicals, film music and jazz vocal
standards, has his own team of professional instructors and sees the club members
through their fun but arduous development process.
Our members receive singing, dance and style lessons, but they also learn to cope with
stage fright and performance anxiety through various tips and tricks. Our club will
continue to work with energy and enthusiasm, while also broadening its repertoire.
MARKETING CLUB
Founded in October 2001, Koç University Marketing
Club remains one of the most active clubs in the
university and organizes 4 major events each year.
In 2011-2012, it had 90 active members and a total
membership of 400.
Our Camp event, which we have been organizing for
the past 8 years and which has become synonymous
with our club, is one of the largest student events in
Turkey and each year, is becoming increasingly interactive by drawing its themes from
current issues.
Our club is growing by the day, and our club spirit and friendships becomes stronger
with every new member. Another one of our major events is the Marketing Challenge.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB
As the Koç University Psychology Club, we remain
active throughout the year. We put together a
Fall dinner, where psychology students get to
mingle with one another and with the department
lecturers. We also organize the two-week long
Psychology Days each Fall. Our theme for the
2011-2012 academic year was “raising awareness”
and we hosted our guests from Mor Cati (Purple
Roof), the Friends of Schizophrenia Association,
the Children of Hope Foundation and Down Cafe.
Each Spring, we organize a series of seminars. We would like to thank all our friends
who have contributed to our events.
KU Radio
The 2011-2012 academic year was a time when
KURadio rose from its ashes and directed its
efforts
towards
livening
its
previously
unremarkable programming. We saved ourselves
from being just a corridor radio, and worked with
all our might and sincerity to become the station
that Koç University truly deserves. Everyone who
picked up the mic played his favorite music, and
saved the radio from oblivion. We prioritized our
Internet broadcasts in Fall, and by Spring, these
broadcasts had acquired their own loyal listeners.
With our new cabin in the Student Center, we managed to attract a lot of attention from
the student body. While we have managed to address a real audience both during the
day and in the evening, this is not enough for us and we are working to take our station
even further. One of our most significant steps towards success and towards fulfilling
our purpose as a club was to host our President Umran Inan in one of our shows.
Our club members easily tackled the work because they were sincere, trusted one
another and worked hard. KURadio has successfully turned a new page and its members,
old and new, continue to get great results.
FILM CLUB
We started out as a club that thought film was much more than a hobby. In the past
years, we organized many events, including film screenings, open air movie theater
events and discussions. We aim to create a club environment where hierarchy does not
overshadow equality and sincerity, where everyone can push the limits of their creativity,
where everyone can improve their skills in all aspects of film, from criticism to
knowledge accumulation, from organization to directing.
So, what are we doing this year? This October, we are going to launch a new annual
film festival that hosts screenwriters as well as at least one famous director. We have
been working on this project since July, and our organizational committee has room for
everyone. Our second main project is to organize joint screening and discussion events,
which we will divide up among our members. Each member will educate himself/herself
about at least one country and movement, and learn about auteur cinema. In turn s/he
will moderate the discussion that follows the screening, prepare a presentation for the
guests. This way, the club members will teach one another, and we as a whole will
teach our audience. Thirdly, we are regularly going to host important people from the
cinema industry every month. Fourthly, we are going to collaborate with other clubs,
push the limits of our creativity and see how cinema interacts with the other arts.
Fifthly, we are going to set up our short film crew, and start shooting our own motion
pictures. Above and beyond our projects, our main goal is to stay fun rather than get
pragmatic.
We would love to see all cinephiles and everyone “who wants to do something” about
film among our ranks.
POLITICS PLATFORM
The Politics Platform Society has been founded in December 2011 , and evolved into a
full-fledged organization after rapidly increasing its membership to 150 in a short time.
The Politics Platform Society seeks to offer political experience to Koç Students through
roundtable discussions, panels and conferences. We have organized 3 events since we
started actively working in February 2012.
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES CLUB
Koç University Social Activities Club and
its members organize, in chronological
order,
the Welcome Party, KatılSAKKonuşSAK concert/discussion series and
the Koç University Spring Festival as well
as other professional events throughout
the year while preserving its amateur
spirit. The Koç University Spring Festival
organized by the Social Activities Club
hosts nearly 10.000 people each year,
and is the largest event on our campus.
Social Activities Club is a non-profit
organization. The sense of responsibility and of common achievement that the club
gives to its members assures that the club will passionately seek to do better each year.
At the same time, the Social Activities Club helps the students grow through
extracurricular activities, and serves as a workshop that provides knowledge of and
contacts in the business world.
UNDERWATER RESEARCH CLUB (KUSAK)
As KUSAK, our goal is to promote diving on campus
and to provide a safe environment for this sport.
We use the photos that we shot to introduce our
friends to diving.
Alongside organizing
photography exhibits, we also offer expert training
courses such as, CMAS 1, 2 and 3 Star Diver
Training, Basic First Aid Training, Rescue Training,
Oxygen First Aid Training and Underwater
Photography Training.
Subsequent to the completion of our training program, we also offer diving
opportunities at major centers such as Kaş, Bodrum, Marmaris, Fethiye and Ayvalık.
These activities help us make good friends both in and out of school, and we share not
only our diving moments but also the joy of being part of a team with our fellow
members who make our college life more fun.
THEATER CLUB
As the Theater Club Festival Committee, we
organize the Chamber Theater Days and the
Sevgi Gönül Theater Days. Our festivals
feature plays that appeal to all audiences by
professional as well as amateur companies
and are supplemented by discussions. Our
festivals are lively and rich with participation
from all around Istanbul.
2011-2012 was the first time a first foreign
theater team from the US performed a play
on the Koç University Stage.
Our club continues to grow and take root, and each member adds something new to
what s/he learnt from veteran members, and makes us our club bloom… This is a warmhearted club that tries to improve its events each year. We hope to see you in the
coming years with better and finer events.
MEDICINE CLUB (KUMSA)
Our Medicine Club KUMSA has been founded in 2010. Our goals are to contribute to
public health, to play a role in social transformation, to represents ourselves among
medical students, and to find ways to serve our students better. The club has subbranches focus on different fields. One of these is the Scientific Research Society. The
aims of this society are to familiarize the students with academic life prior to graduation
and, to encourage them to follow scientific journals and to focus on basic research. Our
other two sub-branches are EMSA-Koç, which is a branch of European Medical Students’
Association (EMSA), and TurkMSIC-Koç, which is a branch of TurkMSIC that brings
together Turkish medical students. Both of these groups aim to enrich the medical
students’ experience, to carry out projects on public health and to raise public
awareness of a variety of issues. We are currently working to create two more groups,
one on stem cells and another on medical debates.
Throughout the year, these groups organize a number of cute but highly beneficial
social events. We have hosted the Medical Education Workshop, and brought in dozens
of medical faculties to our campus. We also hosted EMSA’s National Congress. In the
Teddy Bear Hospital Project, our members in white coats sat with kids and treated sick
teddy bears, and thus alleviated some of the fears that the children may have. We
raised awareness regarding colon cancer, and tried to get our peers to donate their
organs. We did not just do work, we also took breaks, played Guitar Hero and watched
movies. What creates KUMSA and keeps it together are our common goals, and our love
for and faith in the work that we do.
TURKISH MUSIC CLUB
The Turkish Music Club grows stronger with new
members each year, and continues to stage fine
concerts. You can hear some of the best Turkish
Music in our concerts, which attract listeners
from a wide range of backgrounds.
SAILING TEAM CLUB
As Koç University Sailing Club, our goal is to
promote sailing among the students and to offer
them a sailing platform. Our club offers theoretical
and practical training in sailing to Koç students
through professional sailing schools. A student at
Koç University can become an advanced sailor
within 2 semesters (1 year) if s/he wants to. In
other words, s/he can use his own sail boat and
becomes eligible to join Koç University Sailing Team
if s/he wishes.
Our club’s sailing team is successful, not only
among other universities, but also in general categories. The sailing team is composed
of club members, and competes with professional teams in Turkey. We are also
internationally renowned. On average, we organize 3 events every year. Among these
are the now-traditional Fall and Spring “Marmaris on a Sailboat” event. Our club is also
responsible for the organization of Koç University Regatta. We participate in 5-6 races in
a year with our freshly trained members. Through these races, we introduce novice
sailors to the joy and excitement of sailing.
Koç University student groups will make Koç University proud with new
projects and events.
In order to feel this excitement, we invite you to join Koç University Student
Clubs.
For more information on student club activities, please contact our staff at
the Office of the Dean of Students for Student Activities and Volunteer
Projects:
Arzum Kopşa
[email protected]
0212 338 1729
Seçil Yalçın
[email protected]
0212 338 1398
Selin Erensoy
[email protected]
0212 338 1337
For more information on Koç University;
www.ku.edu.tr
0212 338 1000