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Approximately 24 percent of the undergraduate students are actively affiliated with the Greek system, the largest fraternity and sorority system in the nation with fifty-seven fraternities and twenty-seven sororities.
All three branches of the armed services have Reserve Officers' Training Corps units on campus.
Students have the opportunity to participate in performances by eleven different choral groups, five bands plus the Marching Illini, three orchestras, five jazz bands, innumerable small ensembles, and even a Russian-style balalaika orchestra. Each year, Illinois Opera Theatre stages full-length operas, operettas, and opera scene programs. Athletics provide another avenue of enjoyment outside the classroom. The campus intramural program is the largest in the nation, with 75 percent of all students participating.
The campus is a member of the Big Ten Intercollegiate Conference, and in recent years its athletic programs have achieved national stature in a number of men's and women's sports. The Fighting Illini, in orange and blue, field nine men's teams and eight women's teams. Men's intercollegiate sports include baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, golf, gymnastics, tennis, track and field, and wrestling. The women's program includes basketball, cross-country, golf, gymnastics, swimming/diving, tennis, track and field, and volleyball.
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