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Our chapter, Epsilon Omicron, holds our weekly meetings in the chapter room of our Kappa house in Davis. This house is chapter owned. We also occasionally have meetings that take place in a university owned facility.
==Highlights of 2017==
2017 was an amazing year for the Epsilon Omicron chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma at UC Davis. We continued to strengthen our sisterhood by the successful philanthropies we put on, fun sisterhood events, as well as welcoming our newest pledge class. We started off 2017 with a brand new event for our Winter philanthropy, Kappa Karaoke. This is a karaoke event open to not only the Greek community, but all the students of UC Davis, in order to benefit The Taylor Family Foundation. This year we had great participation from UC Davis students and the entire Davis community, and were able to raise nearly $1,300. In the Spring, Kappa put on our annual Spring philanthropy, Kappa Karnival. This was a fun event to raise money for the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation. In total, we were able to raise $1,000 for the Kappa Kappa Gamma foundation, and it was a great way to bring the Davis Greek community together for a wonderful cause. Finally, in the Fall Kappa partnered with the fraternity Sigma Chi to host our annual Kappacino. This helped us raise money for Reading is Fundamental, with Dutch Bros and baked goods for everyone who attended. It was our first philanthropy with our wonderful new pledge class, and was a huge success, as we were able to raise $2,000. Epsilon Omicron is extremely proud of the time, dedication, and care that all our sisters have put into this year of philanthropies, helping them to be as successful as possible.
Our sisters of the Epsilon Omicron chapter have showed their Kappa Kappa Gamma pride by competing and winning in events other Greek chapters have put on. First off, our chapter participated in Arrowjam, which is a dance competition put on by Pi Beta Phi’s philanthropy. Also, we participated in Sigma Chi’s Derby Days, which was a week long competition that our entire sorority was highly involved in and raised money for Huntsman Cancer Foundation. These events were a great way to strengthen our Greek relationships, as well as help support fellow Greek philanthropies. Our chapter has continued to improve on chapter history, with our Registrar displaying scrapbooks for all our sisters to look at in our Parlor Room. As the presidential election was in full swing, our sisters became actively involved in political campaigns, encouraging fellow students to vote, educating fellow members on different issues, and being active members of different political clubs on campus.
As well as welcoming a brand new pledge class of 48 incredible new Kappas, we had an amazing surge in sisterhood over the past year. Our chapter had many wonderful sisterhoods that were a great way to increase sister bonding, and act as a great way to strengthen our sister friendships. Some of our fun adventures included: Kappa Kamp with smores and a bonfire, expeditions into downtown Davis to explore the famous Davis farmer’s market, hanging out with our sisters at Davis athletic events, and even a fun filled Halloween themed chapter meeting, where the sister with the best costume won a fun prize! With so many new members in Kappa this year as well as fun sisterhood events, the sisters of Epsilon Omicron continue to strengthen our sisterhood bonds, showing another huge success for our chapter.
In the recent months, wild fires in California and the surrounding Napa area have been causing disaster and tragedy for so many families. Our chapter raised money for a gift basket of necessities for a member of our own chapter whose family was evacuated from their home due to these relentless fires. We also participated in many other Greek philanthropies who were raising money for those affected by the fires.
Also this year, our chapter won Greek Day for having the most participation and effort in the Greek Day activities. This meant a lot to our chapter because it showed how important connecting with our community is to us. We have also begun mandatory sisterhood events which we found brought our members closer together than ever before. Another accomplishment we have recently achieved together was winning the Powder Puff competition that is put on by our Greek community, exhibiting our chapter's ability to work well together and accomplish what we put our minds to.
As a whole, Epsilon Omicron chapter has shown that it will continue to grow and expand under our Kappa ideals and traditions. The women of our chapter have shown to be beautiful, brilliant, caring, successful, and respectable young women. We cannot wait to see what 2018 has in store for us, as we are so excited about our beautiful new pledge class, and all the amazing philanthropies, sisterhood, and events our chapter has planned.
Unfortunately, the Greek community at UC Davis battled a sexual assault case this year which left many students wanting to make a change in our system. The manner in which our chapter, united with other sororities and fraternities on campus, banned together in order to make a difference with this issue has shown a dramatic amount of growth in the Greek community. We united together to take a stand and to make actual changes in the way the system handles sexual assault and how students view it. We implemented more sexual assault prevention classes for the entire Greek community as well as initiated many difficult, yet necessary, conversations that the community needed to have in order to recognize this issue.
Our chapter has traditionally raised money for Reading is Fundamental, the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation, the Taylor Family Foundation, Rose McGill, and Girls Academy. We also require our members to have one hour of community service each quarter in order to support and grow closer to our own Davis community. Recently, the chapter volunteered at the Boy and Girls Club in Sacramento where we had the opportunity to meet and inspire young, under privileged children.
Taylor Family Foundation is a significant organization for our chapter to be a part of because two of our members work at the camp and spend countless hours with the children who are a part of this cause. Also, a Kappa alumni of our chapter had a sister attending the Taylor Family Foundation camp which is how we originally began supporting this cause. Our chapter believes in supporting other Kappa members as well as our entire organizations' philanthropy, which is why we are excited to support all these organizations.