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ASU has Adelphi Commons, which are a bunch of dorm clusters for each sorority on our campus. There is enough room for 30 girls to live in each year. In the past, we were located in a smaller cluster at Adelphi, but have since relocated to the cluster which we have resided in for multiple years now. Chapter meetings are held in a classroom on campus.
==Highlights of 2015==
2015 was another busy year full of activities for the women of Epsilon Delta. The semester started in January and we were busy planning for our upcoming Continuous Open Bid recruitment. With the hard work and effort of the entire house we extended bids to 10 outstanding women. On February 7th, we held our Mother’s Weekend brunch at Camelback Golf Club. On February 13th, we held our annual Kappa Krush date party at Blur night club in Old Town Scottsdale. That Sunday, we hosted Kappa Kickoff, our philanthropy event that benefits Reading is Fundamental. Kappa Kickoff is a flag football tournament amongst the participating fraternities, but includes other events through out the week such as t-shirt sales and book donations which helped contribute to the overall point count. In the end the gentlemen of Sigma Phi Epsilon won our flag football tournament, but the gentlemen of Delta Tau Delta were named the overall winners of our philanthropy after all points were tallied. Delta Tau Delta was awarded a trophy as the overall winners and Sigma Phi Epsilon was given a plaque naming them the Kappa Kickoff flag football champions. Both items were presented to the chapters as a way to show our gratitude for their outstanding turn out and tremendous support of out philanthropy. Initiation week for our Spring ’15 new member class began with Epsilon Delta Night on March 23rd followed by Campfire on the 25th, Fireside on the 27th, and Initiation on the morning of March 28th, including adding another Kappa legacy to our sisterhood. During the month we were also able to compete in Lambda Chi Alpha’s philanthropy, Watermelon Bust which involves tossing, smashing, and sliding through watermelons to help benefit Feeding America. April meant that it was time for Greek Week, and this year we were paired with the gentlemen of Delta Chi and Sigma Alpha Mu. Greek Week was an exciting way to become more involved in the Greek community by participating in events such as window painting, attending the activities throughout the week, and competing in the Infamous Greek Sink show, where we performed our dances and skits that aligned with the Gods and Goddesses theme for the year. As a whole, Greek life raised over $72,000 for Valley of the Sun United Way through the participation in Greek Week. In April we hosted Leadership Consultant Alex Von Springer who offered us great advice to end our school year with. In addition, we participated in Kappa Sigma’s philanthropy to benefit the Special Olympics. We competed in various events such as an egg toss, pyramid building competition, and volleyball tournament to accumulate points. In the end we came out on top and were able to leave victorious as the winners of the Kappa Sigma philanthropy. On April 18th, we held our annual Sapphire Ball Formal and honored our seniors at their final formal as an active member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. On April 25th our VP of Standards set up a scavenger hunt throughout campus as a final sisterhood for the school year and the winning team was awarded Starbucks gift cards. We ended the semester in May by holding an all house recruitment workshop before everyone went home for the summer where we practiced door songs, prepared strong conversation topics, and answered any questions asked by the chapter.
The beginning of the Fall ’15 semester began with 30 new sisters moving into our sorority housing in Adelphi Commons. Quickly after move in we began work week to ensure that we were recruitment ready! This year, recruitment was split into two weekends due to the increasing number of PNM’s going through recruitment each year. The first round of recruitment was held on August 29th and 30th as we saw half of the PNM’s one day and the other half the other day. The remaining rounds of recruitment were held September 5th-7th. We were honored to host Leadership Consultant Jess Morin from August 29th through September 8th, as she was a crucial part of our recruitment process. Jess was such an asset to us during the highs and lows of recruitment and helped relay messages back and forth to headquarters and ease tension in the house. On September 8th we welcomed 88 wonderful new members into our chapter and held Bid Day at the roof top pool of the Residence Inn on the north side of campus. Bid Day activities included busting a move on the dance floor with the DJ, swimming, and enjoying the Arizona weather with our new sisters. This fall semester we participated in the Greek flag football league and enjoyed cheering our sisters on to victory. We hosted our parents for Family Weekend September 25th-27th and held Kappa Klassic, our annual fall philanthropy that Sunday at Top Golf in Scottsdale. There was a brunch and golf tournament portion of our philanthropy to raise money for our local philanthropies Sounds of Autism and Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center. On October 3rd we had our fall formal Golden Key Gala which was accompanied by a sit down dinner this year. Later that month, on the 22nd, we had big/little reveal and all of our Kappa families grew! The first week of November was I-week, and we initiated our Fall ’15 New Member Class on Saturday November 7th. The next week was Homecoming and we were paired with the gentlemen of Delta Chi and Delta Tau Delta. Our members enjoyed participating in the week’s events and took home third place overall! On Friday the 20th, we held our Barn Dance date party at Rawhide. On the 22nd we participated in Sigma Alpha Mu’s Paint Splash philanthropy where are sisters were covered in paint support of Alzheimer’s research while claiming the first place spot. In December we closed out the semester by having a holiday themed social with the gentlemen of Sigma Pi at the Hard Rock Café in Downtown Phoenix! We had quite the busy year in 2015 and are ecstatic to see what 2016 has in store for us.
The Epsilon Delta chapter is an extremely genuine and supportive group of women. Over the past year we have worked to strengthen our bonds within the Kappa ritual as well as with each other to ensure that we are living out Kappa’s ideals daily. Our chapter is striving to become one of the most involved organizations on campus by participating in as many events as we can, including Panhellenic, Greek life, and University events alike. We would like to have a large presence on campus as a group of exceptional individuals.
Our chapter holds our chapter meetings in classrooms on campus that we reserve at the before the start of each semester. We have experimented with different locations on campus to try to find a centrally located classroom so as to accommodate as many girls in the chapter as we can to allow for easy commuting to chapter as it is a crucial part of our sisterhood.
Adelphi Commons is a University dormitory facility that houses all of our Panhellenic Sororities. Each sorority has a “cluster” that is set up similar to a dorm, but is more private to each house. Our cluster houses 30 girls, with most girls living in a double room and sharing a bathroom with the adjacent room. We also have a full kitchen, study room/loft, and a chapter room that is utilized as a living room. We were very excited to have our chapter room redecorated at the end the summer (thanks to our House Board) before the next group of sisters moved in for the 2015-2016 school year. Members that live in Adelphi enjoy House Dinners monthly which provides another way to connect with sisters and build our sisterhood.
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