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Chapter meetings are held weekly in a university lecture hall. In the fall of 2012, Duke University created designating housing for all sororities on campus for the first time in the university's history. The 2015 Pledge Class was the first pledge class to all live with each other in the "Kappa House". The Kappa House is university owned housing on Duke's Central Campus. The Kappa House is a large multi-unit apartment building with one main common room and 10 four bedroom apartments. We have one of the largest apartment buildings on campus which allows a total of 40 sisters to live in the house.
==Highlights of 2015==
We have many bright and talented sisters in Duke University’s Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter. For this spring semester we achieved a cumulative and average GPA of 3.625. We received recognition as a Gold Chapter within Greek Community Standards at Duke. Our former President Katie Chaplin won the Greek PanHellenic President’s Choice Award this past year. We ran multiple philanthropy events on campus to raise money for Camp Kaleidoscope, a local camp that allows terminally ill children at the Duke Hospital to go to camp for a week worry free. We also donated and read books with a local elementary school with Kappa’s national philanthropy Reading is Fundamental. One of our sisters, Ali Cox, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and is teaching English abroad in Madrid this year. Another sister, Dominique Beaudry, was awarded as a Truman Scholar. And many of our sisters went on to take jobs and complete internships at amazing places such as, Google, Facebook, the Boston Consulting Group, IBM Watson, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Teach for America, the U.S. Consulate in Nigeria, and the Federal Government. Further we have some amazing student athletes in our mix. This past semester, Mary Elizabeth Bender, Cassie Pecht, and Christina Gibbons made it to the National Championship for Division I Women’s Soccer and came in second place. Further, Jordan Tucker of the Women’s Volleyball team was named ACC Player of the Week. We successfully completed another Kappa Konfidential as a chapter, discussing an important issue we saw our girls facing on campus. And as a chapter we strived to get more members involved with the chapter, outpacing that goal and leading as an Executive Board and senior class, showing our commitment and how important Kappa events have been to us.
One of the biggest changes that our chapter had to deal with this semester was Duke’s changes to the housing rules on campus, which directly impacted the Kappa Kappa Gamma house. Duke implemented a new rule that a certain number of upper classmen must live in the house going forward, when it has been a traditional right of passage for sophomore Kappas to live in the house together and for seniors to live off campus. Our Executive Board, and particularly our House Chair and President worked tirelessly to create a better working system that would not significantly impact Duke Kappas traditions. We have resolved most of the issue, by working with housing at Duke to allow executive positions to live in the house in place of upper classmen and working with Kappa incoming upperclassmen to figure out what would entice them to live in the house as a senior. Our chapter is filled with girls who are loyal, fun, and incredibly intelligent. They are motivated and driven and genuinely care about other girls in the sorority. Thus we have a strong sisterhood within Duke, but also which follows us once we leave the school.
Chapter Philanthropy:
What organization(s) has your chapter historically/traditionally raised money for, or donated hours to, in your community?
Reading is Fundamental, Camp Kaleidoscope, and the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation
Why did your chapter choose this organization(s) to support?
Our chapter chooses to support Reading is Fundamental because this is the chosen philanthropy for Kappa nationally. And we chose to support Camp Kaleidoscope because it is a local initiative that allows us to help send terminally ill children to camp. We also chose this philanthropy because many of our sisters at Duke participate in Camp Chasm, which is a partner camp and philanthropy.
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