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We continue to struggle to define the best way to design our committee system. It is sometimes difficult to make sure everyone can be as involved as they want to be in such a large chapter. After reorganizing our chapter into three broad committees, we realized that this increased member confusion as to where their responsibilities were aligned. This Fall we voted to change back to subcomittees specific to the responsibilities of each chapter council position.
==Highlights of 2012==
Kappa Kappa Gamma's Gamma Iota chapter at Washington University is enthusiastically involved in all aspects of campus life: extracurricular clubs and organizations, athletics, and academics. Our annual philanthropic event, Kappa Karaoke was exceptionally successful and attracted a remarkable number of spectators and participants who helped us reach our our philanthropic goals.
After a week of fundraising and our culminating karaoke event, out efforts produced hundreds of books that we donated to local organizations in need. This furthered out commitment to our chapters charitable campaign Reading is Fundamental. the Gamma Iota chapter continues to support the philanthropic efforts of other chapters on WashUs campus and came in first place in AOPis Strikout Arthritis event in the spring. We also participated again in the annual Thurtene Carnival, the first and largest student run carnival in the United States, with Kappa Sigma as our fraternity partner. Our facade this year was a refrigerator which housed our 45 minute long skit that was performed many times throughout the carnival weekend to entertain the children of St. Louis.
The carnival's profits go to charities that serve the St. Louis community. In the past year our chapter has also had many sisterhood events that were of a philanthropic nature. Our annual Walk to the Arch event was a success yet again as we marched the 8 miles to the St. Louis arch together in the fall sporting all of our Kappa gear to promote literacy awareness. Kappa's also went together to a local safehouse for women to watch the children so their mothers could enjoy their holiday party and feel supported. In addition our chapter had sisterhood events to promote our unity such as the Kappa Kookout and our chapters potluck Thanksgiving dinner.
'''Campus:'''
Greek Life at WashU continues to be a supportive and dynamic community that expands each year. The number women going through Recruitment is continuously growing and the chapters continue to thrive. The new addition to our Greek Community, Kappa Delta, will be joining us next year. The Arete mission, adopted by Washington University's Greek Life nearly 6 years ago, continues to be a standard that every member of the community is expected to uphold. Every member of Greek Life is expected to honor their commitment to academic excellence and integrity, individuality, and social responsibility. Greek women on our chapter continue to have a large presence in our campuses women's health organizations and feminist publications.
'''Chapter'''
Our chapter continues to take pride in our commitment to sisterhood. Our sisters are dedicated to one and other and are also passionate about their other commitments on campus. Throughout all that we do with each other and otherwise we are cognoscente of proudly representing our chapter and and exercising the values of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sisterhood. We have sisters involved in campus wide events such as Relay for Life, dance marathon, Washington University Athletics, and various honors societies and clubs. We had sisters who were very involved in the Presidential Election in November and who enthusiastically educated our chapter and our campus on the issues and ensured that we all took part and voted. The Gamma Iota chapter values every sister's individuality and forms a salient support system for each member throughout any of their endeavors. Our chapter is well respected across campus and continues to have strong retention rates throughout recruitment.
'''Chapter Challenges'''
Our chapter continues to struggle with making use of the committees we create to aid our chapter council with its organization and events. Our new chapter council looks forward to organizing a system involving various forms of reminders and rewards to ensure that each committee member is aware of its responsibility. The new system that we look forward to enforcing will also hopefully encourage our attendance at even more of the other fraternities and sororities events on campus.
==Highlights of 2020s:==
