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Delta Rho house corporation owns our own house on campus. We do, however, rent the land from the University. We are required to live in the house for our junior year. There are only 56 spaces in the house, which is not enough spaces to accommodate the entire chapter. The first people to get spots in the house are the girls on Chapter Council. After that, Rush Team will then take up spaces. After that there are usually about 10 spots that are filled with girls who have the most points. This is our only house in the history of our chapter.
==Highlights of 2015==
This last year has been an extremely exciting time for the Ole Miss Kappas. We have experienced success in the Oxford community, on the Ole Miss campus, and abroad. Instead of having Kappa Karnival, we decided to switch it up this year. We called it “A Royal Affair at the Kappa Kastle”. For this, people paid five dollars for a ticket and came to the Kappa house for a day of fun. Some Kappa sisters dressed up as various Disney princesses and decorated crowns with the little kids. This was such a fun event for everyone involved. There were also different groups of Kappas who travelled to Africa, Haiti, and India with Feed the Hunger. Feed the Hunger is a community- wide project started by our chapter that annually packs and delivers meals to impoverished children around the world. The Kappas that went on this trip brought books, toys and clothing for them as well. There is a spring break planned for March 2016 that will hopefully be a success! The Ole Miss Order of Omega actually awarded out chapter the best philanthropy for the past year! We were very proud of this achievement and can only hope to continue and strengthen our involvement.
Our chapter also aimed to become more involved with the Associated Student Body. We campaigned a Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior maid. Also one of our Junior- class members, Shelby Santel was elected VP of Community Service on the Ole Miss Panhellenic Executive Council.
Grades are always a struggle for our chapter. Our chapter council this past year has truly tried to strive to correct and help out our chapter overall. We have determined that it is not only important to encourage people to make good grades, but it is also important to reward those who make consistently good grades. Each semester, there is an academic banquet or meal for those who have made good grades the past semester. Girls really look forward to this. We also provide tutors for girls that request them. This semester, our VPAE also added a study hour requirement. We as a chapter are all trying to get used to it. It does seem to be effective and really forces girls to spend time studying. There are numerous honors societies that our members are involved in. Some of these include Gamma Beta Phi, Phi Eta Sigma, National Society for Collegiate Scholars, Alpha Lambda Delta, Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, Order of Omega and many more. Overall this past year has been an exciting one for the Delta Rho chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma. We look forward to a new Chapter Council and seeing all that they can achieve!
Describe the recent changes on your campus and describe the overall nature of your chapter.
The Ole Miss campus has continued to grow rapidly in recent years. This has resulted in the Greek community growing as well. In the past three years, the Ole Miss campus has added two new sororities (Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Phi). We have also added extra rounds during recruitment. This year, we welcomed 149 wonderful New Members. We are excited to see what will happen with these new sororities on campus for the coming year!
The Ole Miss, delta rho, chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma is a very enthusiastic sorority. We really are passionate about all that we do. The overall feeling when walking to the house is also very happy and very welcoming. Girls love to gather in the t.v. room to watch out shows or all eat downstairs together. Even though it seems difficult to be close with 400 girls, we truly pride ourselves on close-knit relationships. We also just finished up with our big/ little sister week. This is always a great opportunity for the different pledge classes to come together. Overall, this Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter is very close and we truly have happy spirits around the house.
Chapter Philanthropy:
What organization(s) has your chapter historically/traditionally raised money for, or donated hours to, in your community?
There are many different ways to get involved around Oxford, Mississippi. The main organizations that our chapter involves ourselves with are feed the hunger, the local Reading is Fundamental organization, Young Life, and More than a Meal. For More than a Meal, some girls will gather extra food from our meals and deliver it to a local church where less fortunate people gather. We sit with them, help the children do homework, and just enjoy spending time with these Oxford residents.
Why did your chapter choose this organization(s) to support?
There is no real specific reason that our chapter chose to support these organizations. We do, however, truly love each and every one of the ones that we do spend time with. Many girls, for example, have made it a weekly tradition to deliver the food to More than a Meal and spend time with the children there. With Young life, we have a yearly spaghetti dinner fundraiser with the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on campus. This is a great way for students on campus to learn more about the Oxford Young life chapter.
==Highlights of the 2020s:==