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We hold our chapter meetings in our kitchen of our house since we have too many members to fit in our original chapter room. All of our members have the opportunity to live in the house if they choose to. We currently have 54 girls living in the house.
==Highlights of 2015==
This past year for Beta Zeta was full of challenges and accomplishments that have helped our chapter grow immensely. Last year we were placed on probation by headquarters and worked so hard to improve our chapter. In the beginning of the semester Beta Zeta got taken off probation and moved down to warning of probation. We are making many strides in becoming a more well rounded chapter and holding members a lot more accountable for their actions. Since our grades have improved a lot our VPAE held a scholarship banquet this fall semester to honor the girls who reached their gpa goals, made deans list, and who received 4.0’s. To keep continuing on this track every member set a new gpa goal that they hoped to reach for this semester. Beta Zeta has also been holding many sisterhoods that all the members have really enjoyed this past year. Our chapter rented out a movie theater where we all watched the movie Train Wreck. It was a lot of fun and such a good study break. For the holidays we had a Christmas cozy, members had on Christmas sweaters, set up the Christmas tree, ate some holiday deserts which helped us all get into the holiday spirit. We also had a Mexican sister hood where one of our member’s parents came a cooked us Mexican food. Beta Zeta was very excited to welcome fifty-eight new members to our chapter this year. Every member worked so hard during recruitment to get women that would really help improve our chapter.
This year, our chapter was very proud of how successful our philanthropies were. In the spring we held Kappa Kick off, where guys formed their own teams and members were assigned teams to coach. The money we earned was donated to Reading is Fundamental (RIF). In the fall we held Kappa karaoke for the fraternities who wanted to sing and help us raise money. The guys got to pick a song they wanted to perform and were judged by a few members who picked a winner. The money we raised in the fall was donated to the Ellie Burn’s foundation. One of our members is close to the Burn’s family so our chapter was more than thrilled to help them out.
Many of our members are involved in different organizations on campus other then Kappa. Some are apart of different fraternities such as Rho Lambda, Alpha Kappa Psi, and Sigma Alpha Lambda. Many of our members participate in Best Buddies, PAWS, Make a Wish Iowa foundation, University of Iowa Special Olympics, and many other clubs. A lot of our members in Kappa love to participate in Dance Marathon, which is an amazing experience many of our members continue to do every year. We also have members on athletic clubs and teams like, cheer team, track team, and water polo.
Beta Zeta Chapter changes people for the better. You form sisterhoods that will last a lifetime. Every member is hard working, kind, and a driven group of women that work to make our chapter better every day. Each year our bond grows more and more and we get the opportunity to create new bonds with new members that join. We support each other no matter what challenges life gives us and never take each other for granted.
Chapter Philanthropy:
What organization(s) has your chapter historically/traditionally raised money for, or donated hours to, in your community?
Reading is Fundamental, Ellie Burns Foundation
Why did your chapter choose this organization(s) to support?
One of our members has close ties to the Burns family, so we chose this foundation to support our chapter member and the family.
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