Eta Omicron
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| Founded | March 27, 2010 |
| College | Northeastern University |
| Location | Boston, MA |
| Homepage | Eta Omicron Website |
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Eta Omicron, Northeastern
Northeastern University established in 1898 in Boston, Massachusetts
Founded March 27, 2010
86 charter members
178 initiates (as of June 2013)
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The Early Years:
Northeastern University was established in 1898 as the Evening Institute for Younger Men at the Huntington Avenue YMCA in Boston. Its first class was held October 3, 1898. The institute catered to the needs of the rapidly growing immigrant population in Boston. Within a few years of its formation, it offered classes in law, engineering and finance. In 1909, the school began offering day classes, and it moved to a new location on Huntington Avenue in 1913. The school was officially organized as a college in 1916, and in 1922 it was renamed Northeastern University of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association. In a period of rapid campus expansion, the university purchased the Huntington Avenue Grounds (former Boston Red Sox ballpark) in 1929, but did not build on the land due to financial constraints during the Great Depression.
Northeastern today is a private, secular, coeducational research university. It has eight colleges and offers undergraduate majors in 65 departments. At the graduate level, the university offers more than 125 programs and awards masters, doctoral, and professional degrees. The university is the home of more than 35 specialized research and education centers. Its main campus is located in the Fenway Cultural District of Boston. Northeastern is classified as a RU/H institution (high research activity) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Among Northeastern's past and present faculty are several Guggenheim Fellows and a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award” winner, a former Democratic nominee for President of the United Stateshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_University - cite_note-7 and a Pulitzer Prize winner.
Colonization and Installation
Following an open house attended by more than 200 interested women, interviews with Boston-area Kappa alumnae and the colonization team and an invitation-only, iris-adorned brunch, the charter members of Eta Omicron colony were pledged on January 30, 2010.
Eta Omicron was installed March 27, 2010, with 86 charter members. Northeastern’s director of fraternity and sorority life challenged the charter members to continue their excellent work as they begin a new era of sorority life on campus and in the Boston community.
Eta Omicron was the seventh NPC women’s fraternity to be established at Northeastern. The university enrolls more than 15,000 undergraduate and 5,000 graduate students where 9,600 students were residents of the campus dorm and apartment structures. With more resident students than ever, the desire for more students to be part of a Greek-letter community increased. Northeastern’s signature cooperative education program (co-op), as well as student research, service learning and global learning, builds the connections that enable students to transform their lives and the lives of others.
The university’s outstanding support of Greek life was one of many attractions to this institution for Kappa. The charter new member class boasted the highest GPA of any Greek-letter organization at Northeastern. Eta Omicron members were campus and community leaders bringing much to this new chapter as leaders, scholars and philanthropy-focused women.
Installing officers were Fraternity President Denise Rugani, UC Davis; Director of Membership Elizabeth Bailey, Mississippi; Region 1 directors Claire St. Martin Collins, Emory, and Kelly Matyas Magyarics, Pittsburgh; Rho Province Directors Allyson Kinney, Connecticut, and Julie Carley Reilly, Puget Sound; Coordinator of Chapter Development Janice Franklin Larson, Akron, and Chapter Consultant Melissa Shearer, Vanderbilt.
Eta Omicron Chapter was Kappa’s 137th active chapter and complemented the growing, service-oriented campus Panhellenic consisting of seven other NPC groups—Alpha Epsilon Phi, Delta Phi Epsilon, Delta Zeta, Kappa Delta, Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma Sigma Sigma and Sigma Kappa colonizing in Spring 2013.
Highlights of 2011-2019
2012
2012 was an exciting year for Eta Omicron: we focused on involvement in Fraternity and Sorority Life and the Boston community, and on building sisterhood in general. Some of our philanthropic efforts included volunteering at the Roxbury Boys and Girls Club, where we tutored and held workshops such as baking classes. We also made valentines for troops, volunteered at the Greater Boston Food Bank, went to the Astra Zeneca Hope Lodge, and even helped clean up the Franklin Park Zoo! Our variety of sisterhood events this year included movie nights, ice skating, and a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts.
The spring of 2012 proved to be an eventful semester for Eta Omicron. We earned the "Most Improved Chapter" Award for the year of 2011, showing that our efforts to be more involved in the Fraternity and Sorority Life community are being recognized. During Greek Week, we were paired with Kappa Sigma, taking part in Greek Sing and winning Greek Olympics! We also participated in Relay for Life, where many sisters walked laps around our arena all night for cancer awareness and support. The year's formal was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Cambridge. Our semester was wrapped up by our annual Tea Party, where our seniors were sent off after hearing kind words about them from their sisters. Our chapter's GPA for the Spring 2012 semester was 3.361 placing third among all panhellenic sororities.
At the 2012 biennial convention, Eta Omicron earned honorable mention in academic excellence and panhellenic relations.
The fall semester of 2012 started off right with a recruitment retreat in Cape Cod. We stayed overnight at a camp, practicing recruitment skills and getting ready for another great semester. Recruitment was one of our biggest successes this year, as 34 new members joined the one uninitiated member in pledging Kappa Kappa Gamma. During homecoming, we were paired with Alpha Epsilon Pi and placed second in the annual homecoming dance competition, Take It To The Floor. We also took part in in the Light the Night walk, which raised money for leukemia and lymphoma.
On Founder's Day, we attended a luncheon at Harvard and heard alumnae talk about how they continued to stay involved in Kappa. We also sponsored our second annual Kappa Kickoff, where we raised almost $1,000 with nearly 30 participating teams. During I-Week, we had many successful events, including the big-little reveal. The week culminated in 34 new members becoming initiated on December 1, 2012, with one more being initiated in the spring. The semester ended with our semi-formal at the Longwood Bar and Grill. We finished the semester with a 3.4 GPA, placing second among all panhellenic sororities.
Northeastern University is growing rapidly, with over 44,000 students applying for 2,800 spots in the 2012 entering class. This year, the business school received a donation of $60 million and was renamed to the D'Amore-McKim School of Business. Eta Omicron is composed of a wide range of individuals who bring unique personalities and ideas to the chapter. We embrace all of our members and their points of view, striving to create an accepting atmosphere where everyone can thrive and get involved. Through our diversity as a chapter, we challenge ourselves to uphold our values every day and truly live up to Kappa standards.
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