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Located in scenic La Jolla just minutes away from the beach, the University of California, San Diego is known as one of the top public research institutions in the nation since its founding in 1960. There are over 23,000 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students. UCSD is ranked the 7th best public school in the nation and 35th among the nation’s top 50 universities. The Zeta Nu Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma is one of the ten Panhellenic sororities at UCSD. With over 100 active members, we are also one of the largest sororities on campus. The members of the Zeta Nu chapter pride themselves in maintaining good relationships with not only the other chapters in the Panhellenic council but with other school affiliated organizations as well. We always strive to support and represent within our chapter and within Panhellenic as a whole. We welcomed a new sorority on our campus recently, Alpha Omicron Pi. They were voted onto campus during Spring Quarter of 2013 and officially started recruitment in December 2013. We are looking forward to working with Alpha Omicron Pi and continuing to work with the rest of Panhellenic.
==Highlights of 2014==
2014 has proven to be quite an eventful and successful year for the Zeta Nu chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma at UC San Diego. Our chapter was represented on the Panhellenic council through Claire Genesey, Jessica Chang, and Tanya Khawaja. Furthermore, we extend our support and congratulations to Emma Tillfors and Claire Genesy for gaining positions as VP New Member Outreach and VP Service, respectively, on the Panhellenic executive board for 2015.
For scholarship, our chapter ranked 6th out of 10 sororities for our overall academic GPA in Spring 2014, but made it to the 1st ranked in Fall 2014. Our current Vice President of Academics, Andie Romero, has set goals and multiple plans to continue our academic excellence. Such goals include Kappa study hours, Kappa Cocoa Kram, GPA wars with the gentlemen of Sigma Nu, and providing different studying strategies, such as the "Quarter at a Glance" planner, to our chapter.
In terms of traditions, the Zeta Nu chapter upheld the tradition of hosting monthly sisterhoods. For instance, in February 2014, we had an ice skating sisterhood and in March, our Vice President of Standards hosted an Ice Cream Sundae Study Break in the midst of finals as a wonderful stress relief to grab a treat with other sisters. Our VPS also set up a kick-boxing sisterhood as well during the Spring quarter. The new VPS, Emily Schmidt, has set new goals for this upcoming year to strengthen our sisterhood even more and we eagerly look forward to the events, such as a yoga sisterhood and t-shirt tye-dying sisterhood that she has planned. Other traditions we had last year were “Polished Kappa,” “Presence Presents,” and “Officer of the Week.” For Polished Kappa, the VPS would give nail polish to girls that did something noteworthy, for Presence Presents the Recording Secretary would raffle off gift cards to girls who showed up to meeting, for Officer of the Week the President would reward an officer with a small gift for doing an outstanding job with her position. The list of traditions continues with “Smart Apples” which is a gift card presented by the VPAE to a member who got a good grade on her midterm.
The Zeta Nu philanthropic involvement thrived in 2014 with multiple events and activities. We started the year volunteering at an All American Girl Talent Show where we helped young girls prepare for their catwalk on the runway put on by American Girl, which is a company that makes life-like dolls. The women of our chapter also teamed up with a fraternity on campus to make sandwiches for the San Diego Homeless Charter in May. We also participated in the Breast Cancer Walk in November with the gentlemen of Tau Kappa Epsilon in downtown San Diego where the entire chapter, including the new members, showed up strong and supportive. Other philanthropies that the ladies of the Zeta Nu chapter participated in included Tri Delta's "Delta Idol", Alpha Epsilon Phi's "A Phine Affair," and Sigma Kappa's "Sigma Kappa Best Dance Crew." Among various external philanthropic involvements, we held our biggest philanthropic event known as Kappa Karnival in April. This event is hosted to raise money and awareness for the San Diego Youth Center (a center for homeless and at-risk children and families). For Kappa Karnival, fraternities and sororities set up unique booths and games free of charge for the kids of the youth center and their families, which we funded to shuttle out to our event. The great aspect of Kappa Karnival was that it was not just open to Greek Life, but also to students on campus leading to over 500 guests in attendance. We also utilized Money Wars and asked for donations and sponsors leading up to the event to donate a portion to the Youth Center and the rest to the Kappa Foundation. This turned out to be our most successful event thus far raising over $15,000. Our philanthropy also won UCSD Greek Life's award of Philanthropy of the Year and gained notable recognition at Convention.
Along with the many events throughout the year, some special events were held that further strengthened and empowered the bonds between our women. A Kappa trainer visited the chapter in April and spoke to us about unity, leadership, and teamwork. The Founder's Day Brunch was also a memorable experience hosted on the UCSD campus where Zeta Nu members were able to meet with alumni and other Kappa members from the University of San Diego. Leading up to recruitment, Kappa showed their enthusiasm and sisterhood pride by attending Triton Day and Meet the Beach, events hosted by UCSD, to pass out Go Greek flyers and answer any questions that any potential new members had about the Greek system or specifically, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
In Fall 2014, we were proud to receive our new Alpha Lambda pledge class with 43 new members. In October and November, we transitioned the ladies through our Sapphire program where girls were able to meet and interact with actives while looking for potential Bigs. Then we had our Big/Little reveal at the end of a week-long process in which Bigs gave their Littles presents and other treats to welcome them into their families. Soon after Big/Little reveal, each new member was presented with a flower by their Big in front of the chapter and guests at our first formal, "Presents," in mid November. New members first began to strengthen their bond through a new member sleepover that allowed the girls to get to know one another on a deeper, more personal level. Other events that brought new members closer to the actives and other new members in Kappa included Blue Light where Bigs presented a gift to their little as the little gave back her new member pin to the chapter. There was also another sleepover, Fireside, which allowed the new members to bond once more before they were officially initiated.
Before initiation, the new members also experienced Inspiration Week where they, for example, interacted with the Seniors at the Senior Sunset and learned about their experiences and love for the chapter throughout their years being in it. Through this process, the new Alpha Lambda pledge class was welcomed with much enthusiasm and excitement.
In the past year, our chapter had created a list of goals that included accountability, consistency with following bylaws, and transparency between chapter council and the rest of the chapter. We strived to achieve all goals in 2014 by being proactive members, showing up promptly to events, and showing up strong them as well to show our sense of accountability. Consistency was met with the constant help and supervision of advisers along with presentations in the beginning of the year from the Vice President of Standards, Vice President of Academics, Risk, and Publicity chairs where the chapter was reminded and notified of bylaws, rules, and other standards to which they are required to uphold as members of the chapter. Transparency was also managed through surveys to allow every individual's voice to be heard by chapter council and feedback to see what needed to be strengthened or improved. This year, we are striving even more to uphold these goals as well as additional goals that we had set up and agreed upon as a whole chapter. We look forward to improving and strengthening the Zeta Nu chapter at UC San Diego.
Finally, the 2014 year ended with a tremendous pinnacle as Kappa Kappa Gamma received the Chapter of the Year award from Greek Life UCSD at the annual Greek Awards Convention on campus. Through the strength of the sisterhood, campus involvement, philanthropy, leadership, scholarship, and other attributes the Zeta Nu chapter proudly received this award in front of the entire Greek community. Furthermore, our advisor Kristen Fogle received the award for Advisor of the Year, and our successful philanthropy was rewarded Philanthropy of the Year. Also, our own sister and former Philanthropy Chair, Priscilla Phan, received an incredible award as the Outstanding Chapter Leader because of her contributions to Kappa Karnival and the Zeta Nu chapter. We are so proud and honored to have received so many prestigious awards for the efforts, commitment, and dedication from the ladies during 2014. We hope to be just as successful, if not more, this upcoming year and look forward to what 2015 has in store.
Located in scenic La Jolla just minutes away from the beach, the University of California, San Diego is known as one of the top public research institutions in the nation since its founding in 1960. With over 25,000 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students, UCSD is ranked the 8th best public university in the country and 37th best overall among the nation's top 50 universities. The Zeta Nu chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma is one of the ten Panhellenic sororities at UCSD. With over 100 active members, we are also one of the largest sororities on campus. The members of the Zeta Nu chapter pride themselves in maintaining good relationships with not only the other chapters in the Panhellenic council but with other campus-wide organizations as well. We always strive to exemplify and represent the motto of Kappa within our chapter, Panhellenic community, and around campus.
UCSD does not allow any housing for Greek life. We use University owned facilities.
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