Student Life
Student Organizations: Special Interest
These student organizations are special interest organizations.
Allies
Contact: Colton Ferrell
Advisor: Lisa DelaCruz
Purpose: to promote education, communication, and understanding among all sexual orientations in order to unify the Southwestern community. We seek to provide a safe space for discussion of GLBTQ/sexual orientation issues, both personal and political.
Alpha Phi Omega
Contact: Karl Kleinsasser
Advisor: Tim O’Neill
Purpose: to develop leadership, promote friendship and provide service to humanity.
Animal Behavior Society
Contact: Nicoletta Memos
Advisor: Romi Burks
Purpose: to foster a student-wide interest in animal behavior and provide a forum for animal behavior majors, minors and other interested students to interact and explore animal behavior related opportunities.
Best Buddies
Contact: Antonio Lopez
Advisor: Sherry Adrian
Purpose: to enhance the lives of people with intellectual and development disabilities by providing opportunities for mutually enriching friendships and integrated employment.
Brooks Prize Debate Planning Council
Contact: Ali Walden
Advisor: Tim O’Neill
Purpose: to plan and execute the Brooks Prize Debate, a Southwestern tradition since 1878.
Cat Partners of Southwestern University
Contact: Kara Koinos
Advisor: Shannon Mariotti
Purpose: to care for and maintain the population of free-roaming and feral cats on campus.
Circle K International
Contact: Jace Venters
Advisor: Emily Niemeyer
Purpose: to serve Southwestern and the community through service, leadership, and fellowship.
Coalition for Diversity & Social Justice (CDSJ)
Contact: Auburney Jackson
Advisor: Terri Johnson
Purpose: to serve as an umbrella organization comprised of representatives from registered cultural and identity organizations at Southwestern University.
College Republicans
Advisor: Tim O’Neill
Purpose: to promote and discuss Republican issues and candidates, to encourage a more politically active campus community.
Collegiate Percussive Arts Society
Advisor: Erin Martysz
Purpose: to enrich the Southwestern community through the advancement of the percussive arts while serving as a vehicle for its members to cultivate and explore their interests in the field of percussion.
EBONY
Contact: Octivia Marcel
Advisor: Ron Swain
Purpose: to promote unity among African Americans and the SU community; greater awareness and appreciation of the African American culture.
EPIC
Contact: Karl Kleinsasser
Advisor: Steven Alexander
Purpose: to foster wide student interest and participation in the fields of physics and engineering.
FACE AIDS
Contact: Kelly Lessard
Advisor: Martin Gonzalez
Purpose: to spread awareness about global health equity, and to educate the community about the present HIV/AIDS epidemics.
Finch Society
Contact: Alex Sheppard
Advisor: Lili McEntire
Purpose: to unite students with prospective students to enrich the recruitment experience.
Korouva Milkbar
Contact: Joe Hillman
Advisor: Derek Timourian
Purpose: to provide beverages and a social space to students, faculty, and staff and valuable business experience to volunteers.
Latinos Unidos
Contact: Lizette Villarreal
Advisor: Katy Ross
Purpose: to provide an understanding of Hispanic culture and to serve as a means for intercultural exchange.
Model United Nations
Contact: Charlotte Griesel
Advisor: Bob Snyder
Purpose: to further students’ understanding of students of many international organizations, particularly the United Nations, and their procedures through preparation for and attendance of Model UN Conferences and other forms of current event forums.
New Music Society
Contact: Laura Brackney
Advisor: Jason Hoogerhyde
Purpose: to promote and perform new compositions by stimulating interdisciplinary thinking and musical development among students.
Operation Achievement
Advisor: Joni Ragle
Purpose: Operation Achievement is an outreach program to Georgetown Middle Schools. It is a voluntary-based mentor program where the children come for 2 hours & O.A. provides an enrichment and tutor time.
Pan-Asian Association
Contact: Linda Lam
Advisor: Carl Robertson
Purpose: to provide a space for all Pan-Asian communities to identify with and feel welcome on campus. This organization strives to celebrate the diverse groups represented under the term “Pan-Asian.”
Perfectly Pearl
Contact: Octivia Marcel
Advisor: Alicia Moore
Purpose: to learn more about Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. as well as address the needs of the community through service to Southwestern University and the surrounding community.
Psychology Club
Contact: Eric Schow
Advisor: Fay Guarraci
Purpose: To spark and spread interest in psychology across the campus; to provide psychology oriented activities and discussion to students interested in psychology; to provide stimulation for research ideas and to promote thought, discourse and awareness of the many fields of psychology.
Rotaract Club of Southwestern
Contact: Sarah Ally
Advisor: Roger Young
Purpose: to provide opportunities for local and international community service and enhance professional development through affiliation with local Rotary Clubs and Rotary International.
Students for Environmental Activism and Knowledge (SEAK)
Contact: Jessica Olson
Advisor: Laura Hobgood-Oster
Purpose: to pursue and promote more environmentally sound actions at SU and to facilitate awareness at SU.
Southwestern Community Garden
Contact: Anne Howard
Advisor: Joshua Long
Purpose: to foster community through sustainable food cultivation
Southwestern Marketing Program
Contact: Mercedes Padilla
Advisor: Andrew Ross
Purpose: to integrate student perspectives and unique marketing solutions to increase the visibility of Southwestern University.
Southwestern Mock Trial Team
Contact: Emi Anderson
Advisor: Davi Thornton
Purpose: to bring students together in an organization that challenges and develops public speaking, debating, critical thinking, and acting skills; educates students on the inner-workings of the legal system; and allows students, professors and alumni to work together to achieve a common goal.
Southwestern University Economics Club
Contact: Kynan Murtagh
Advisor: Dirk Early
Purpose: to promote and encourage greater intellectual involvement and interest in economics.
Southwestern University Guitar Society
Contact: Andrew Smith
Advisor: Steven Kostelnik
Purpose: to provide a community for the many guitarists on campus; to foster student interest in, and increased campus awareness of, the rich tradition of classical guitar.
Southwestern University Veterans Association
Contact: Shannon Johnson
Advisor: Roger Young
Purpose: to provide support and awareness to transitioning veterans and military dependents.
Student Foundation
Contact: Ashley Johnson
Advisor: Grace Pyka
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Purpose: to serve as a liaison between the student body and the university administration; to enlist and motivate S.U. students to promote the welfare of the university.
Student Health Advisory Council (SHAC)
Contact: Michael Broz
Advisor: Dinorah Martinez-Anderson
Purpose: to promote student health and enlighten students on relevant health topics through health education, activities, and improvements on campus.
Student Peace Alliance
Contact: Sadie Clarendon
Advisor: Eric Selbin
Purpose: to promote non-violence on all levels of society and to work with the National Peace Alliance to ensure the passage of the Youth Promise Act.
Student Philanthropy Council
Contact: David Briner
Advisor: Rob Bacchus
Purpose: to raise awareness among Southwestern University students about the importance of giving the the University.
SU Advocates
Contact: Alison MacAluso
Advisor: Alison Kafer
Purpose: to provide a warm, caring environment for the students, faculty, staff, and alumni at Southwestern who are disabled as well as their supporters.
SU Amnesty International
Contact: Abby Birkett
Advisor: Don Gregory
Purpose: to spread awareness of the violation of human rights around the globe, and working to protect these rights.
SU Habitat for Humanity
Contact: Austin Painchaud
Advisor: Ron Swain
Purpose: To facilitate opportunities which encourages the SU community to become involved with Habitat for Humanity of Williamson County.
SU Libertarians
Contact: Natalia Rodriguez
Advisor: Fred Sellers
Purpose: to increase campus awareness of libertarian ideas, engage varying ideologies in debate and give voice to the libertarian student body.
SU Native
Contact: Marina Staber
Advisor: Ben Nava
Purpose: to raise awareness of Native American and indigenous teachings, values, and cultures to build a connection between the SU community and native issues in the Georgetown area.
Theatre for Social Justice
Advisor: Kathleen Juhl
Purpose: to promote social justice through the medium of the stage.
The Trouveres
Contact: Annie Emswiler
Advisor: Jim Kilfoyle
Purpose: to promote the appreciation, creation, and propagation of poetry, literature, spoken word, and music that incorporates these elements.
U Can 2
Contact: Erica Hernandez
Advisor: Alisa Gaunder
Purpose: to foster leadership and philanthropy among first-generation and supportive students at Southwestern University by providing academic assistance and pre-college workshops.
Young Democrats
Contact: Kalin Harris
Advisor: Paul Sicard
Purpose: to educate the campus on important issues and encourage participation in the political process. As well as promoting the advancement of Democratic candidates and ideals.
