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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.
==Highlights of 2016==
This has been a successful year for Beta Mu. We started off the year with a new chapter council. They brought new ideas to the chapter and had goals surrounding keeping members safe and informed. This summer at convention, Beta Mu won honorable mention awards for Standards and Recruitment. We had most of our chapter council attend who all brought back fun and different ideas to help better Beta Mu. In the fall we recruited 100 new member to our chapter, 98 of who were initiated in November. We had professor tea towards the end of the semester where students invited their professors to the house to get to know our teachers better.
Over the last calendar year our event chair and our risk chair went above and beyond planning innovative and safe events for the chapter. Some of these events included a hockey game date dash and Great Gatsby themed formal. Along with fun events, our standards chair put together many sisterhoods allowing all pledges classes to get together and know each other better. In the spring, we competed in Greek Week with Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Delta Pi. It was a great way for our newer members to get involved in Kappa and meet new people.
This past fall Beta Mu started an initiative with Chi Psi to stop sexual assault. The Walk Her Home Campaign was launched with a pledge signing on campus to eradicate sexual assault on CU Boulder's campus.
Over the last year the presidential election played a huge role on campus. Many students protested and spoke out about their beliefs changing the atmosphere on campus. Beta Mu encouraged girls to stand up for what they supported in a peaceful and productive manner. This was viewed positively by the school and rest of the students.
Our philanthropy chair put together two amazing philanthropies this year. Our fall philanthropy was A Very Hungry Kappapillar where we had breakfast for dinner at our chapter house. Proceeds went to Reading is Fundamental and there was a great turn out. In the spring we held Kappa Kickball, a kickball tournament between all the sororities and fraternities on campus. It was a huge success and had high participation from the Greek community. The proceeds went to the Samantha Remington Angel Heart Foundation.
The Samantha Remington Angel Heart Foundation is an organization that is very close to our heart at Beta Mu. This organization helps families afford organ transplants, something that could get very expensive for many people. It was started by one of our sisters and her family and we were very excited to be able to support her family.