Hubbies and Hunnies – Being Married and Still Part of the Fun
For married students who may feel awkward at singles activities and are looking to meet new married couples, Married Student Alumni Association, also known as Hubbies and Hunnies, is a new branch of Student Alumni Association designed to benefit married couples attending USU.
Vice president of Student Alumni Association and creator of the married branch, Jesse Randall, said, “As I looked around, I didn’t see many other organizations that catered to married people and have an atmosphere that married people would feel normal in.”
Randall said he and his wife Ashley decided to create Hubbies and Hunnies so married couples could have a chance to meet other married couples with similar interests.
“SAA always had options for married students, but it was always 95 percent single college students and then a couple of married couples, and it’s sort of awkward sometimes,” Randall said.
SAA blends with MSAA perfectly, Randall said, because they do all of the same activities such as Café Sabor Night, an etiquette dinner with Hamilton’s, and Dinner with 12 Strangers. The only difference is the monthly activities, he said. Hubbies and Hunnies have “married only” activities catered to them.
Some advantages that make it worth joining the club, Randall said, are the chance to meet other married people with similar interests and the chance to be involved in a club that can be listed on a resume. Other advantages, he said, include that the club does not take up a lot of time and is a good opportunity to network.
“SAA is really involved in networking,” Randall said. “There are a lot of different activities that include networking with alumni because we are associated with alumni. So we have a really good tie to pull back good alumni.”
‘Alumni’ is a word commonly misunderstood, Randall said. SAA, he said, is an organization for undergraduate as well as graduate students to join while enrolled in classes.
“Once you have enrolled and taken classes, when you leave, as long as you pass those classes, they consider you alumni, because you went to USU,” Randall said. “Graduate alumni is a whole other organization for graduates that is called the Alumni Association, and that’s run by the school and a whole different thing.”
Hubbies and Hunnies’ first activity will be held Tuesday, Nov. 6, in the Haight Alumni Center from 7:45 to 9 p.m. It will be a way for married students who are interested in joining Hubbies and Hunnies to find out what the organization is about and get to know each other, he said. There will be popcorn and games. The activity is free, and couples do not have to sign up or commit to joining the club at this activity. Randall said he hopes to get some feedback about what works and what doesn’t.
Whether or not someone’s spouse attends USU does not matter, he said.
“Heck, you can be graduated and still come,” Randall said. “We don’t care.”
A membership fee will be charged for students wanting to join Hubbies and Hunnies beginning Spring Semester. The membership card will be valid for one year from the time it is issued.
“It costs $40 per couple which is good because it costs $30 for a single person,” Randall said. “So for $10 more, you can pay for two people.”
All monthly activities are free for members of Hubbies and Hunnies, Randall said, and the membership package includes a t-shirt, True Aggie mints, a membership card with several discounts at local stores, a drawstring backpack and other perks to joining the club.
For more information about Hubbies and Hunnies, contact Randall at jesse.randall@aggiemail.usu.edu or visit the club’s Web site at http://www.usu.edu/saa/index.cfm.