With more than 40,000 students, Penn State offers more clubs than Ben and Jerry's has ice cream flavors.

How do the smaller clubs survive in the shadow of those larger student organizations that make headlines every week?

"There will be like two freshmen that start to come, then they don't come, then some of the regulars don't come," Juggling Club President Joe Scholz said of the group's meetings.

Inadvertently, the juggling club's meeting location helps to keep its numbers up.

"I passed by their meeting on the HUB lawn one day on my way to class and thought it would be fun," said group member Hayley Freilich. "You don't have to prove yourself here."

The club has also attracted prospective students.

"I don't want to say that I came to Penn State because they had a juggling club, but I was happy that they did," said Matt Bachmann, a club member who chose Penn State for graduate school.

The juggling club is not the only club whose members fluctuate at a school with so many options. The Science Fiction Society also dealt with dropping numbers, but has since risen to the challenge, club president Matt Eliot said.

"Funding isn't an issue, keeping our numbers up is," he said. "There is a stigma with science fiction and fantasy."

Despite the belief that most clubs lose people as the school year progresses, the Penn State Fly Fishing Club does not adhere to a constitution.

"Interest goes up throughout the year," Evan Schoss (senior-geography) said. "People seem to want to join more groups later in the year."

Erik Vranich, fly fishing club president, said weekly meetings attract about 15 people -- between 25 and 30 people when a speaker is present. To make ends meet, the fly fishing club fundraises in various ways, collecting dues from members and selling clothing as fund-raisers, he said. The juggling club is not one of the clubs that experiences problems regarding funding.

"We are pretty good with funding. Last summer we got money for three of our jugglers to go to Buffalo, N.Y., for a juggling festival," Scholz said.

One club that will definitely be helped this year by funding from University Park Allocation Committee is the Penn State Motorcycle Club.

"This is the first year with funding, so we are hoping to do more stuff," club president Eric King said.