Changes
→Highlights of 2014
Chapter for the Spring 2014 Semester was held in Hahn Hall North, a university owned building. Fall 2014 Chapter was held in Hancock Hall, also a university owned building. We do have housing where members have the opportunity to live together. The house is university owned with 16 rooms there is space for up to 32 girls at one time.
==Highlights of 2015==
Summary:
Over the past year, Zeta Mu has done a lot. We’ve participated in a variety of philanthropies, had ourselves a new different internal philanthropy, and celebrated our chapter’s 30th anniversary. Our Academic committee did a lot of work as well, creating new programs to help the chapter, such as a group study event called Books Over Bars, and starting a team competition between varied groups of members of the chapter. Our house furthermore participated in a campus-wide competition for using the least amount of electricity during a three week period called Turn Down For Watt, and won, gaining $500 to the charity of our choice. We were also honored to have one of our members represent us on the Homecoming Court. We were also selected to participate in LEADToday by headquarters, which allowed us to not only get to know people outside of our immediate friend groups, but also really look forward and grow as a unit, something we all really enjoyed.
When our leadership consultant came to visit in November, we learned about the different ways that every chapter of Zeta Mu does and uses Oh Patt, and learned how ours is particularly quick. As I said, we also celebrated our chapter’s 30th anniversary. We had a big weekend for the alumni, culminating in a celebration at our football stadium September 26th. Something we’ve traditionally prided ourselves on our sisterhood, but that is something we’ve worked on a lot this year.
At our first chapter of the fall semester, we had a whole chapter activity where we all let people know how much we cared and respected them, and for our fall mandatory sisterhood retreat, we split up into random groups and bonded with people we maybe had never had a chance to get to really know before. Our main internal philanthropy event in April was a new one, called Hit the Fleur, in which we hosted a swing dance competition. The first day we hosted a percentage night, but then our second night we had the swing dance competition, in which we taught them the basics, and then let them at it. We also started a new bond with an organization on campus called Soma Sasa, led by a student from Tanzania which runs a library there, hosting a percentage night with him in December. Also in December, we hosted an online trunk show with Trend Tribe.
While there were not really any major changes on our campus, the overall nature of our chapter is a wide variety of types of young women who are involved all over campus in different things. Not one is a copy of another, and no one feels like they have to achieve that.
In the past we have always dedicated much of our time to the children at Prices Fork Elementary School. We host our Reading is Key event there every year, but beyond that we aim to be a point of contact any time the parents or teachers should need assistance. We have lent sisters to work at craft shows and various festivals at this school. We feel that by being so present, it’s a constant reminder that our organization cares for them and that our mission is not based solely in money.
Prices Fork is one of the most under served elementary schools in the county and is just outside of the reach of most other help from campus organizations, so we are happy to go out and do our part there.
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