Towne Club gives sorority
experience outside Greeks
■ UNL student group
carries on traditions of
Greek life outside the
traditional system.
By John Gaskins
Staff writer
Call it the non-Greek sorority, the
anti-sorority sorority, or the “alterna
tive” sorority.
Whatever you call it, UNL’s Towne
Club, said President Sarah Anderson,
is a sorority, a group of women, that
gives its members the experiences
Greek sororities provide without
being an official Greek organization.
“We do all the things the Greek
sororities do - philanthropies, social
events, rush, all that fun stuff,”
Anderson said. “But we’re here for
girls who don’t want to become
involved in Greek sororities based on
the negative things they might hear or
know about them. Yes, it’s an alterna
tive to sororities.”
The Towne Club does not have a
chapter house, but does hold regular
meetings at the Nebraska Union,
Anderson said. It is not part of a
national organization, but has been a
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Our founding sisters just wanted to start
something new for girls who were looking
for more friends and activities, and we still
do that today
Sarah Anderson
Towne Club president
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club at the University of Nebraska
since its establishment in 1938 by two
women who wanted to give female
college students more to do.
“Back then there wasn’t a whole
lot for women to do in college,”
Anderson said. “Our founding sisters
just wanted to start something new for
girls who were looking for more
friends and activities, and we still do
that today.”
Anderson said Towne Club’s con
tingency currently consists of 20
members.
“And we think that’s a good size
because in a group of 20, you have
plenty of friends, but you also get to
know them a lot faster and a lot better.
It gets you excited about doing
things.”
Some of the things that Towne
Club does includes social events with
other fraternities, sororities, and cam
pus groups, such as date dances and
other group get-togethers. Sh$ said
they usually do an official event two
to three times a month.
They also, like many Greek orga
nizations, give back to the community
through charitable events and philan
thropies that raise money for the
Arthritus Foundation and the Big
Brothers/Big Sisters Pjogram. In fact,
Anderson said that the members are
heavily involved in being mentors for
the boys and girls in that program.
Anderson said that the expense of
being a member of Towne Club and
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