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We hold our chapter meetings in our chapter room. Our chapter room is in the basement of our house. It is not required for our members to live in, however we stress how amazing of an experience it can be to live with your sisters. We have a house that can house 85 girls at one time. Our house is chapter owned. The house we live in has been the house we have lived in since Kappa Kappa Gamma came to the University of Colorado.
==Highlights of 2015==
This has been a very eventful year for the Beta Mu chapter. We started of the year with winning a soccer tournament hosted by Pi Kappa fraternity. It was great to be able to get together with the rest of the Greek community to raise money for Pi Kappa's philanthropy. Our philanthropy chair organized a group of sisters from our chapter to participate in the Polar Plunge. It was an amazing and very cold experience.
Our philanthropy chair also successfully organized three major Kappa philanthropic events. In April we had Sweet Home Kappa Gamma where we raised money for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation. We chose this organization to give the money we raised, because a sister of our chapter's mother passed away from this disease a few years ago. It was really great to give to such an amazing organization that could benefit all the women of Kappa. In October we had an event to raise money for elementary schools in our community, Halloween House. In November, Kappa Kappucino was our last philanthropy event that raised money for Reading is Fundamental.
Our standards chair also helped make this semester great with all of the sisterhoods she planned. We went to J Crew and had a shopping event, we went to the pumpkin patch, a yoga sisterhood at Lululemon, we wrote letters to soldiers, we went ice skating, and we had a movie night with a lot of snacks and watched Pitch Perfect 2. All of the pledge classes got to know each other, they were great bonding experiences.
Our registrar organized a History Night in April to celebrate the history of Beta Mu as well as the history of Kappa Kappa Gamma as a whole. We placed 3rd in Songfest and 2nd overall in Greek Week, which was very successful because we won in 2014. On top of Greek Week, our event chair planned very successful formals as well as mixers and date dashes. Some of the mixers we had were Pi Kapp game night, Theta Xi Wild Wild West, and 80's Winter Olympics with Sigma Nu. One of our very fun date dashes was Oktoberfest where we celebrated the German holiday with our sisters and our dates.
Over the summer our chapter council met for a few days for a retreat in Empire, Colorado at our risk chair's cabin. We had a great time canoeing, swimming, hiking, cooking, and bonding. After a few days together we all felt a lot more close than we did before the retreat. Our advisor did an amazing job of organizing activities for us. We had a very successful recruitment where we had the largest class of legacies in Beta Mu history. Our President also started a new activity for Beta Mu's to stay active and healthy. Our President is a very athletic individual and wanted our chapter to become more active so she started the Presidential Fitness Challenge.