There are two major characteristics of the average campuser; brokenness and love for partying. These two are a terrible pair because it is almost impossible for one to sustain a party-animal life style while broke. Most of the clubs around Kampala were wise enough to figure this out, hence coming up with the great “campus night.” They set aside a particular night of the week when campusers have free entrance to the club, the only requirement being a campus ID. While there, campusers enjoy drinks at discounted prices since there usually is a beer promoting the night.

Club marketeers
Guys knocking at hostel and hall doors asking students, especially girls to go for campus nights is no longer shocking, thanks to the steadily increasing number of club marketeers. Majority of these are students contracted by club owners to make sure that clubs are packed to capacity during campus nights. Emma Meziah, a fourth year student of Agri Business and Land Management is a marketeer for Rouge, Amnesia, Dolphins and Mangeres, and agrees that campus night has saved many campus students who cannot afford club fees.
“Clubs get full because of campusers, so campus night is a great idea,” Meziah says. He and Maate Martin, a third year B.Com student have made a sizeable amount of money from making sure that clubs are packed to capacity during campus nights. Marketeers enjoy privileges like receiving VIP passes to clubs, a crate of beer at times and are also paid approximately 40,000shs per night. Not bad for one night!

Hostel shuttles and the Clubs
“On a good night, we carry two or three round of students,” says ‘Muzeeyi’, the driver of Sir Pinto’s Girls’ hostel shuttle, which is well known for taking students for campus nights. Clubs have taken it upon themselves to provide free transport for the students. Other hostel shuttles that do this include; Dream World’s and God Is Able (Pretty ironic there!). All these are located in Kikoni, which says a lot about Kikoni residents.
3S format; Skimpy, Sexy and Smart
Before departure, the girls are asked to dress in the 3S format; Skimpy, Sexy and Smart. More girls are taken because “when girls are in club, people buy booze,” according to Meziah. This is why when they are offering transport, boys are at times charged a negotiable fee to make sure that less board.
“While in club, the usual craziness like getting drunk, people getting horny especially freshers, takes over”, says Meziah.
The class and the not-class clubs
The classiest campus nights are held at Silk (every Tuesday) and Venom (Wednesday), while the not-so-classy ones (trying to be polite here) are held at Dolphins(Wednesday), Mangerez (Friday). Club Rouge’s campus night is on Monday, Ten-Over-Ten on Wednesday, while Amnesia’s is on Friday. Silk receives the biggest number of revelers though Amnesia is the most popular among students. Rouge is also working to revamp its campus nights. Less known clubs like Mangerez, Club Galaxy (former basement), and Explorer on Entebbe Road, are also gaining momentum on the already crowded club scene. Students have diverging views about which club is the ‘most fun’ campus night and Meziah is hesitant to say which is ‘the most fun’, because it could cost him his job. God knows he needs the money. Broke campusers!