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CSUN’s Greek life had some setbacks due to negative social media attention that reflected poorly on Greek Life but Kappa managed to uphold our standards and bylaws and remain up to par with our standards of academic excellence by providing help for sisters in need by creating links for girls to access providing them with members who have already taken similar courses to help with anything needed. Kappa also continues to reserve study rooms every week for girls in need of a quiet place to study and get homework done. With this Kappa Kappa Gamma also managed to come in first with grades with a chapter overall of a 3.01 GPA.
==Highlights of 2015==
In the 2015 calendar year, the Epsilon Xi chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma celebrated its 41st year since being founded on November 16th, 1974. Throughout this past school year, Epsilon Xi has been a part of and thrown many philanthropic events. To kick off the Spring 2015 semester, we held our annual Kappa Kookie Gathering on April 13th, which is an event our House Chair organizes to promote Reading is Fundamental. We host this event at the Kappa house and invite fraternities, sororities, friends and family to come and support our cause. We asked each guest to bring one children’s book for admission and then they are welcome to eat delicious baked goods and mingle. The second philanthropy event held in the spring semester was Skate and Donate. Skate and Donate is an event our philanthropy chair hosts at a local skating rink, which raised money for the Corrine McClain Scholarship. In early February 2015, Reading is Key gathered members from Epsilon Xi to The Boys and Girls Club of Simi Valley to read and play games with the children, to stress the importance of reading. We kicked off Fall 2015 with Kappa Splash on September 26th where we invited fraternities to participate in a fun diving contest and we raised over 7,000 books. Later in the semester, we invited all sororities and fraternities to participate in KKGlee, a fun talent show. $3,000 from ticket sales was donated to the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA). As a chapter, we decided to donate to AARDA to raise money and support sisters who are living with autoimmune diseases. With this we also had the honor of sending one of our Kappa’s, Emma Feitshans, to Leadership Academy to represent our chapter.
Epsilon Xi celebrated its sisterhood with fun and exciting events during the spring and fall semesters. As a chapter, we went laser tagging and had a blast with our sisters. As well as going to the Escape Room, where sisters got into groups and had to “break out” of a room by solving puzzles and riddles. Blue on Blue dinner was held the night before recruitment began where the chapter gathered together, dressed head to toe in blue and enjoyed tacos all together in our backyard. This fall during I-Week, as we began to prepare for initiation we had another sisterhood event. We all tie-dyed Kappa shirts in the backyard of the Kappa house and had a blast.
Unfortunately, Epsilon Xi was unable to recruit new members in Spring 2015 but we made the best of the situation and prepared for fall as much as we could. As recruitment and the school year approached, our Membership Chair, put on a 3-day retreat from August 21-23 at the UCLA Kappa Kappa Gamma house. During this retreat weekend we spent time bonding, laughing and preparing for recruitment. Fall recruitment was held from September 12-16, 2015 and when Bid Day finally came, we were so excited to welcome 46 beautiful new members into our chapter.
CSUN’s Greek life experienced some setbacks and hardships due to continued poor decision making and negative social media attention that reflected poorly on our campus Greek life. But Kappa managed to uphold our standards and follow our bylaws to remain up to par with our standards and academic excellence. Kappa continued to reserve study rooms in the library each week for girls in need of a quiet place to study and get work done. As well as fun activities during chapter meeting such as the No Skippy Jar, where girls put there names into a jar if they didn’t skip any class that week and a name was randomly chosen to win a great prize. Also, the Geeks of the Week, where any member who received and A on an exam or quiz, texted the Vice President of Academic Excellence a picture of their score and their names were read in meeting and were automatically entered into a monthly giveaway. With this, Epsilon Xi managed to come first in grades during the spring 2015 semester with a chapter overall GPA of a 2.975