Committees

Alumni

This committee is in charge of engaging with Hanszen alumni, especially during events like Beer Bike Week and Homecoming. They also help connect Hanszenites to alumni for professional connections.

Committee Heads
Cathy Barr
Peter Reynolds
Cindy Li
Nelson Mills
Ruohan Wang

Awards

This committee is in charge of planning the Spring Semester Hanszen Awards Ceremony, which honors Hanszenites for their service to the college and handles Hanszen's prestigious travel scholarships.

Committee Heads
Alex Sansom
Noah Hight
Abigail Jaimes
Lily Remington

Beer Bike

This committee plans and executes the best week of the year -- Beer Bike Week! The Beer Bike Committee Heads (i.e. Coordinators), with the help of their committee, work for months to bring Hanszen the best possible Beer Bike Week, collaborate with the Bike and Chug Captains to put together a team for race day, and closely deliberate with Hanszen's Guardians regarding jacks on Beer Bike Week.

Beer Bike Coordinators
Katherine Jeng
Aryana Suhartono
Hemish Thakkar
Hari Gotluru
Basma Bedawi
Nayna Nambiar

Bike Captains

The Bike Captains have the all-important job of ensuring Hanszen's bike teams perform the best they can. Captains run workouts, time trials, and eventually select the team of all-star bikers to race in Beer Bike. If you are interested in participating, regardless of your biking experience, please reach out to the captains!

Beer Bike Coordinators
Peter Reynolds
Amanda Hogan
Zarek Lu
Lily Remington

College Night & Crane Day (CNCD)

This committee organizes Hanszen's two semesterly themed college nights and Crane Day in the spring. These events bring the entire Hanszen Family together, often including beverages, inflatables, and a guaranteed good time.

Committee Heads
Connor Taylor
Genesis Hahn
Shivi Goyal
Maisie Schorr

Diversity

Hanszen's Diversity Committee wants to give y'all a warm welcome ☺️ at the start of the semester. As DFs, we're here for any issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion -- our role includes both education and justice 🤝. Whether you want to vent 🗯, see your identity celebrated 🎉, or be connected to social justice initiatives 🙌, we are resources for all of you! 🤩ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ

Committee Heads
Ava Baraban
Rohan Palavali
Vy Luu

FITQ

FITQ, also known as fun in the quad, friends intending to quack, fish in terrible quagmires, foot in the quicksand, and many other things, is a semi-regular event where Hanszenites hang out in our quad and have a joyous time. Often included is music, food, lawn games, various competitions, and whatever else we think of. They typically occur on Friday afternoons, and are a great way to celebrate getting through the week.

Committee Heads
Sophia Wilson
Sara Price
Noah Hight
Pablo Rascon

Kitchen

This committee manages the Hanszen College kitchen. They work with the spaces committee and EVP to ensure all Hanszenites have a clean place to cook!

Committee Heads
Devin Von Arx
Rachel Huber
Emily Han
Abigail Jaimes

Merchandise

This committee designs, orders, subsidizes, and sells Hanszen merchandise. They are the reason Hasnzenites have the best swag on campus, and have designed items like tank tops, sweatpants, boxers, scarves, and even pens for all to enjoy.

Committee Heads
Wiliam Liu
Lily Remington
Vy Luu
Kirstie Qian

Off-Campus (OC)

This committee is in charge of events that specifically relate to Hanszenites who live off-campus. They provide supplies and free weekly lunches, throw off-campus events, and make sure that off-campus Hanszenites are as engaged with the Hanszen community as anyone else.

Committee Heads
Louis Abbott
Garret Lowe

Senior Events

This committee organizes events for Hanszen's graduating seniors, especially during Senior Week right before graduation. They help Hanszen send off its eldest members in style with events like wine and cheese nights, tubing, and Top Golf.

Committee Heads
Esha Patel
Ben Montag
Isabella Bartos
Peter Reynolds
Stephanie Agu

Service

Service committee is Hanszen's philanthropy branch. They making sure that we give back to our community, and organize several Outreach Days throughout the year. They also put on Mr. Hanszen, which is a combination of a male pageant and a talent show, with all proceeds going to local causes.

Committee Heads
Megan Phung
Steven Maradiaga
Olivia Finch
Sarah Johnson

Spaces

Spaces committee, in concert with the Hanszen EVP, takes care of Hanzen's spaces. They do maintenance as well as taking on large-scale renovation projects like the music room, TV Room, Library, and storage spaces.

Committee Heads
Temilolu Fabuyi
Louis Abbott
Suraj Chandramouli

Spirit

This committee makes sure Hanszenites are proud to be Hanszenites! They make sure Hanszen's events calendar is updated, decorate the commons with seasonal banners, and put together events to support our Hanszen athletes. Additionally, they put together great events like yearly ice skating at the Galleria Mall, pumpkin carving around Halloween-time, and a Cascarones celebration near Easter.

Committee Heads
Olivia Finch
Cathy Barr
Kalina Peneva
Cora Kosnik
Temilolu Fabuy

Sports

This committee organizes and supports Hanszen's college sports teams. They make sure we have teams for all of our sports, assign captains, manage equipment, and lead Hanszen to championships each year. We are the most recent winners of the President's Cup (also known as the P-Cup), a trophy awarded to the residential college that wins the most intramural sports competitions.

Committee Heads
Lily Durant
Adi Zytek
Garret Lowe
Andrew Fox
Julian Puerto

Baking

It's bake or get baked.

Committee Heads
Michelle Pham
Devin Von Arx
Maddie Garrity
Danika Li

Brewing

It's the chemistry lab you dreamed about in high school.

Commitee Heads
Ben Handwerker
Sammi Frey

Cheese

Say Cheese! Welcome to the cheesiest group of cheeseheads you ever dreamed of being a part of.

Cheeseheads
Sammi Frey
Kalina Peneva
Michael Mounajjed
Matthew Ahn

Games Committee

For when you really don't want to do your homework.

Committee Heads
Laura Yee
David Coronado
Adam Leff
Alexa Seaton

Grilling

Pretty self-explanatory. We grill things. Hot dogs, hamburgers, corn, impossible burgers, vegetables, and anything else you can imagine.

Grillmasters
Pablo Rascon
Charlie Wells
Matthew Ahn
Hajime Kioi

Hanszen Eats (HEATS)

HEATS organizes subsidized off-campus gastronomical experiences.

Committee Heads
Stephanie Agu
James Belanger
Ai Bunchatheravate
Connor Taylor

Movie

Movie Committee's mission is to put Hanszen on the map as a globally recognized filming and early screening location for blockbuster movies.

Committee Heads
Landry Wood
Raven Shamoo
Amy Suo

Milk

Moo! Milk!

Committee Heads
Jay Srivastava
Jace Borkholder

Plant

Do you enjoy plants? Love lettuce? Are you fond of foliage? Then look no further, Plant committee is the perfect committee for you.

Committee Heads
Cora Kosnik
Jay Srivastava
Matthew Ahn
Ryan Ellis
Suraj Chandramouli

Rice

Committee Heads
Emily Han
Justin Dang

Theatre

The whole world is our stage... or at least Hanszen Commons. Check out our website!

Committee Heads
Julian Puerto
Ana Contrucci
Ryan Olatunji
RChristian Steele

Honorary Hanszenites

While they are not officially Hanszenites, our wonderful Co-Advisors spend enough time here that we consider them part of our family!

Committee Heads
Jason Swann
Elie Wang
Isaiah Chen
Hugo Gerbich Pais
Everett Adkins
Jessica Hao
Krish Kumar
Anvita Wadhwa
Henry Tran
Hannah Lloyd
Rita Ajit
Shriya Pendyala

Crafts

This committee provided fun crafts that would help relieve stress as well as occasionally provide small decorations for Hanszen. In addition to this, this committee had events making practical crafts, such as storage containers.

Hanszen Beyond the Hedges (HBTH)

This committee organized fun outings for Hanszenites to go out and explore the city of Houston. HBTH organized and sometimes subsidized trips to zoos, museums, shows and operas so that Hanszenites could take advantage of the wonderful city in which they live.

Skeleton

While the Guardian proudly watches over Hanszen quad, Harry Femur Hanszen does the same for Lower Commons. In return for his service, we dress him up for various holidays throughout the year.