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In the overall Panhellenic Community, Chi chapter has also taken an active role in order to make additions that positively benefit all sororities. The newly installed Vice President Finance on the Panhellenic Council is one of our very own sophomore members. Overall, Chi chapter has greatly exceeded expectations this year and looks forward to all of the new improvements and achievements to come.
==Highlights of 2019==
A recent change on our campus is that the Panhellenic Council has worked with MSA and general U of M administration to improve student safety, especially for women, on campus. This includes extending the hours for the UMN Shuttle service called Gopher Chauffeur in order to give students the option for a free and safe ride home. There has been a greater improvement to make this better over the past year. As well as working with Gopher Women's sports to show our support for other women's organizations on campus.
Our chapter continues to partner with the Chanhassen and Eagan Feed My Starving Children locations. We have volunteered at this local Feed My Starving Children for a very long time. We also recently have paired with Arc’s Valley Village, as well as the Twin Cities Marathon. This past year we also have really focused on restructuring our local philanthropy Girls Academy. Girls Academy is a philanthropy we have every year at Northeast Middle School in Minneapolis. We work with young women to promote positive body images and supporting other women. This past year we have restructured this philanthropy to include three smaller events throughout the semester, rather than just one larger event. This has allowed more women in our chapter to get more involved with Girls Academy and develop more meaningful and lasting relationships throughout the semester. We chose Girls Academy because we have been doing it since 2012 and have developed a relationship with the school that we go to. We support Reading Is Fundamental because it is Kappa Kappa Gamma's National Philanthropy and we believe in the power of literacy.
We have continued to work with such an organization due to the local and global impact. Locals come together in order to better the lives thousands of miles away. The latter two organizations allow Chi chapter to better the community that is immediately around us, as well as have a global impact. We chose Girls Academy as our chapter’s local philanthropy because of the strong impact that we can have on our community. Being located in a metropolitan area, we wanted to make an impact on an underserved school in a way that would be meaningful to the women in our chapter and the girls at Northeast Middle School. Our Chapter strives to push our members to make an impact on all scales, and these specific philanthropies allows us to do so.
Our chapter continues to meet on Monday nights in the main house living room. Although our chapter is continuing to grow, we have been able to keep up such a tradition."
This year on campus the University of Minnesota experienced many changes and fun events. A new President was installed on the University of Minnesota Campus, Joan Gabel. We are so excited for her to lead the University as she supports Greek Letter Organizations and is currently working to push for more accessible mental health resources on campus. In addition, Greek Letter Organizations continue to be involved in Machy Days in the Spring and Homecoming Week in the fall. This year the University of Minnesota football team had a 9-0 record all season until they played the University of Iowa on November 16th. The team ended the season with a record of 10-2 wins to losses. It was a great year to be a gopher in 2019. The overall nature of our chapter is very positive. We strive to be leaders academically and promote the empowerment of women's organizations on campus. We had the Minnie Stewart Van come this year and set up the interactive history exhibit which was really interesting.
We celebrated Founders Day by having breakfast at the Kappa House and there was a powerpoint and video about Kappa History that was played. We also played a trivia game about the Kappa Founders.
