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Achieving our goals was a vital part of our 2017 school year. We successfully formed stronger relationships with the other Northeastern fraternities and sororities on campus and the greater Northeastern communities by creating a sign up sheet for every Fraternity/Sorority Life event to ensure that members of our chapter were present at every event, collaborating with and supporting other organizations on campus, and doing our best to hold an event each month with our Panhel pair. We increased our sisters’ understanding and appreciation of rituals, bylaws, standing rules, and history by presenting a bylaw/standing rule of the week at chapter and in the TWIK each week, practicing a ritual song at every chapter, and emphasizing both Kappa and chapter history throughout the New Member period. Our chapter emphasized sisterhood in all aspects of chapter life and programming by promoting standards as a resource to strengthen relationships and mediate conflicts, encouraging rearranged seating at informal chapter meetings, and offering one internal sisterhood event per month. In order to make better use of committees, our chapter chose to give members of the committees titles or roles when appropriate, host one committee bonding event per semester, and create a group agreement per committee including method of communication and goals. Our final goal was to increase study hours by 50%, which we worked to achieve by encouraging sisters to log their study hours on the Gin System, rewarding the sister/group of sisters with the most study hours at the end of each determined period of time, and creating study groups and teams by major. For the spring semester we had the highest GPA on campus for the 4th semester in a row. In conclusion, 2017 has been a year of many accomplishments and sisterhood for the incredible sisters of Eta Omicron.
==Highlights of 2018==
Eta Omicron had an incredibly successful 2018! Early in January, we devised three main goals to continue to strengthen our chapter even further: to improve accountability by increasing attendance, better recruitment by refining organizational abilities and refining recruiting skills, and to ensure that there is respect and proper education for ritual.
In the spring, we were able to accomplish a remarkable amount, strengthening our sisterhood, philanthropic relationships, as well as our relationships with the other sororities and fraternities on campus. Philanthropically, we continued our bi-monthly visits to Christopher’s Haven, our local philanthropy, as well as hosted and co-hosted several events throughout the semester. In January, we partnered up with the brothers of Kappa Sigma to craft cards for those with chronic illnesses. In February, we visited Community Servings with the gentlemen of Alpha Kappa Sigma and prepared meals for those in need. We also hosted our annual Lip Sync event with the women of Alpha Epsilon Phi, raising $1,123, half of which went towards Christopher’s Haven. March again proved to be one of our busiest months. We started off with a spectacular sisterhood event at Rollerworld, where we skated the night away in ‘90s fashion. As the beginning of Greek Week, a Monopoly-----------------------------themed Relay for Life quickly came upon us. Through donations and our Kappa Kaffeine booth, we were able to raise $16,282 for the American Cancer Society. Sister Cole Rifkin won Mayor of Monopoly, making our whole chapter proud as we walked into the early hours of the morning. With our Greek Week pairs, the brothers of Alpha Kappa Sigma and Lambda Phi Epsilon, we competed and placed second in the annual dance competition, Greek Sing, and our sister Laura Shannon ran for Greek Goddess. During the Fraternity and Sorority Life Awards Ceremony, we were proudly honored to be named Northeastern’s Panhellenic Chapter of the Year for the second year in a row. Due to the incredible efforts of the Chapter Council of 2017, we were also awarded the Academic Excellence Award, earned the Highest GPA in Panhellenic, and our president, Sydney Smith, won Panhellenic Council Outstanding President. '''Note We began to close the spring semester with our Formal that was held on April 7th at the W. Prior to formal, sisters gathered at a local restaurant for brunch in preparation for the night of dancing ahead. During Senior Week, we celebrated all of the hard work and achievements of our seniors with Senior Wills and Legacy Night. We held our Annual Tea Party at the end of the week, where we honored Jessica Adrian with the Loyalty Award. We officially transitioned 27 women into alumna status and completed the spring semester with a chapter GPA of 3.596. Over the summer, three of our sisters attended Kappa Kappa Gamma’s national convention where we were awarded with the Public Relations Award. We received four honorable mentions for New Member Programming, Excellence in Chapter Registrar:'''Management, Gracious Living, and Academic Excellence. For the second year in a row, we conducted a Summer Health Challenge in which pledge classes competed to promote healthy living. This challenge served phenomenally to improve public relations as well as encourage keeping in touch over summer break. Please refer For the first weekend of the fall semester, our sisters attended our annual sisterhood retreat at YMCA Camp Beckett in western Massachusetts on September 8th and 9th. We focused on strengthening our sisterhood and put a large emphasis on ritual and the values we were searching for with recruitment approaching so soon. Through high ropes courses and relay races, we were able to strengthen our bonds and return back to Boston on Sunday, exhausted but eager to your chapter archives start recruiting. Formal recruitment was held during the following two weekends in Northeastern’s student center. On September 24th, Eta Omicron excitedly welcomed the wonderful Lambda class of 52 new members. We were thrilled to integrate a Kappa transfer from Syracuse University into our new member class. The new member period was filled with activities including chapter meeting minutes the new member retreat, where women participated in their first Kappa Kozy and back issues were able to get to know each other off campus. On October 14th, we hosted a Founders Day celebration in Northeastern’s Alumni Center. We were joined by alumnae, members of the BIAA, as well as Gail Simpson Owen, the Fraternity President, and Alpha District Director Andrea Stanfield who we were ecstatic to welcome to Eta O. We had a beautiful ceremony accompanied by a fantastic brunch and celebrated our fraternity with pride. To prepare for another successful year, the nominating committee met on Saturday, November 3rd to slate our sisters for the new Chapter Council. At formal chapter on Tuesday, November 13th, we elected our Chapter Council officers for the 2019 academic year. The Key fall was also filled with several events that deepened our bonds as sisters. We went apple picking at Brooksby Farm in Peabody, MA, attended an Xtend Barre class, carved pumpkins, relaxed together during a spa night, and even returned to fill Rollerworld and had even more fun the second time. We participated in any gaps Homecoming Week with our partners, the brothers of Phi Delta Theta, and competed in Take It to the Floor, the above historical highlightsannual dance competition. If your chapter archives are not completeBigs were finally revealed to eager littles on November 4th, please research your university libraryright before we hosted our annual Owl Prowl on November 7th. Here new members and active sisters were able to mingle and get to know each other better. This action-packed week was followed by Inspiration Week, campus newspaper where bigs and littles exchanged pillows and fleur de lis on Thursday night and yearbook archives we prepared for newsworthy information about your chapterinitiation with the Fireside ceremony on Friday night. Please double check your work After the ceremony, bigs and littles held a cozy in order to emotionally prepare for accuracythe upcoming ceremony in the morning. Contact chapter Advisory or House Board The following morning, Saturday, November 17th, we initiated the fifty-one new members. In addition to all of our sisterhood events, local Alumnae Association membersphilanthropy was one of our main focuses throughout the fall. We hosted our annual Kappa Kickoff event, a flag football tournament that we open up to the entire university. This year we were able to raise $1,356.13 for Christopher’s Haven. Through t-shirt sales, we were able to raise $310 for Reading Is Fundamental. We organized a fundraiser for the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation at Love Art Sushi, raising $37.87. With the brothers of Alpha Epsilon Pi, we crafted card for the Boston Homeless Veterans Shelter and with the brothers of Delta Tau Delta, we created cards for Remy, a patient undergoing treatment at Boston Children’s Hospital. To support our national philanthropy, or your Province Director we visited Orchard Gardens Public School for our Reading Is Fundamental event on November 30th . Ten of Chapters our sisters read Make Way for assistanceDucklings and bonded with the students. Your efforts will ensure We are very proud of our philanthropic endeavors this year and we are excited to continue to watch our relationships flourish. The fall semester came to a complete close with our Semi-Formal and accurate history Senior Wills. Semi-Formal was held on November 30th at Kingston Grille & Bar and our sisters celebrated our accomplishments of your the semester and danced the night away. Senior Wills was held for the twelve seniors who graduated in December. The chapter for future generations reminisced and was able to enjoy!give the graduating seniors the sisterly goodbye they deserved. These seniors were transitioned into alumnae status during a formal chapter meeting on Tuesday, December 4th.