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Changes on Campus: Pi Kappa Phi joined our Greek community in 2013 and moved into the old ATO house by the Student Union Building. The University of Idaho welcomed a new president and our Panhellenic Council had to step up when our Greek advisers moved to a new campus.
==Highlights of 2014==
On January 14th everyone came excitedly back to the Beta Kappa chapter house just in time for the start of the new school year. After everyone was settled in and school was started we had chapter council leadership day where new goals and ideas were discussed for the upcoming year. To kick off February we started a month long photo challenge to encourage positive social media and to express how much we all love kappa #kappaphotochallenge. On the 12th we enjoyed a Valentines date dinner where everyone looked beautiful. For one of our philanthropies we made flower grams for Valentines Day and all the proceeds went towards our cook’s daughter. We also enjoyed volunteering for the Lionel Hamptons Jazz Festival here in Moscow. On February 28th we started a new tradition of going ice-skating. From March 10th- 14th we had midterms. Luckily, after the stressful week having spring break the following week was our reward. After returning from spring break we kicked off the second half of the semester with Greek Week and partnered with Sigma Chi. On March 26th we all invited our professors over for dinner to get to know them better and make new relations. On March 28th we had our first vandal Friday of the year. Greek games were the next day. The following weekend we were all so happy to have our moms in town for a fun filled weekend. Over moms weekend we had our key for the cure 5k run/walk where we raised $2200. On April 12th we participated in relay for life at the kibbie dome. We had our second vandal Friday on April 18th. To wrap up the school year on May 3rd Laurien Mavey was named Delta Tau Delta’s Tzena. The last day of school was May 16th and Kappa shut down for the summer.
On August 8th we all returned to the beautiful white house on the hill. After a busy workweek and oh so fun recruitment we welcomed 28 new members into our home. After just a couple days with all of our new members in the house we started school August 25th. On September 24th we welcomed all of our dads into town for the weekend and enjoyed some good old vandal football. On October 2nd we had our family find out. The following night we had kappa krush, a t-shirt date function hosted at our home, where we had panda express delivered! To celebrate founder’s day we traveled over to Washington State University for the afternoon and spent it with the Kappa’s there. We had inspiration week October 19-25 and our 28 new members finally became members. That weekend we also won Beta Theta Pi’s powder puff competition. The new members were given their badges by putting together a fake fireside on November 13th. We had a delicious caramel apple sisterhood on the 18th of November. We had fall break from the 22-30. After we returned to school there were only three weeks left in the semester. We celebrated our sapphire ball on December 5th and Ty Prince was named our new iceman. Alpha Phi was our sister house this semester so we hosted a cookie decorating sister hood with them in our dining room on December 5th. On December 13th we had our secret Santa sisterhood. To wrap up the year we had finals the 14-19 and we all left Kappa for winter break.
We welcomed a new Greek adviser to our campus who is young and beginning to implement some new ideas, such as restructuring Greek week. Additionally we welcomed an assistant Greek advisor, Megan Harre, a former Kappa. She was able to join us for aspects of our inspiration week. Because all of our pledge classes live in we are pretty cohesive. We have a very strong sisterhood, we spend a lot of time together, and mix and blend together well.
We hold our meetings in our chapter house in the formal or chapter room. Beta Kappa is a "housed" chapter. The House Board owns the land and the house. The Chapter leases the chapter house from Pi Omega Alumnae and the member’s rent from the Chapter.
The original Kappa house was built in the 1800s and was owned by a University of Idaho professor. A new addition was built onto the house in 1923 and another addition from 1954-1955. We have always had members live in the house. All the freshmen live in the house while sophomores, juniors, and seniors have the option to apply to live out of the house. Currently we have 73 members living in the house but it ranges from year to year, usually fluctuating between 68 and 75 members. The chapter members rent the house.
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