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Since the release of the popular film The Blind Side, Ole Miss has seen an increase in enrollment each year. As a result, the greek community experienced an increase in registration for recruitment. The past calendar year we saw the biggest group of girls register and go through recruitment. As a result, there were more rounds per day and philanthropy and skit rounds lasted more than one day each. On Bid Day our chapter welcomed 116 new members. Alpha Delta Pi recolonized on our campus during Fall 2013 recruitment. Ole Miss is now home to ten sororities, which will help keep pledge classes smaller as more girls go through recruitment. Ole Miss Kappas took part in Alpha Delta Pi's Bid Day and volunteered as ADPi Ambassadors to help educate students about the sorority before recruitment week.
Overall, our chapter is very enthusiastic and passionate in all that we do. Though our chapter is very large we pride ourselves on our close-knit relationships. We feel that our sisterhood is one of the most rewarding experiences of our college careers and something we will undoubtedly cherish long after we graduate. Each sister benefits from Kappa in her own way. Not a day goes by that we don't find ourselves laughing with our sisters. There is always something going on for us to do together, whether it be a sisterhood event, a night out, or spending hours in the library studying for an upcoming test. Because our chapter is so large, we make great efforts to know not only girls in our own pledge classes, but the girls older and younger than us. We strive to help each other and our community any way we can. We also plan to become even more involved in campus activities in the coming semesters.
==Highlights of 2014==
The previous year has been an extremely exciting time for the Ole Miss Kappas. We have experienced success in the Oxford community, on the Ole Miss campus, and abroad. We continued our philanthropy event, Kappa Karnival, where we set up fun stations for children and help promote literacy in the Oxford community. We also hosted a spaghetti dinner with Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on campus to benefit our local Young Life chapters. In addition to these philanthropies, three separate groups of Ole Miss Kappas traveled to Africa, Haiti, and India with Feed the Hunger. Feed the Hunger is a community-wide project started by our chapter that annually packs and delivers meals to impoverished children around the world. These Kappas delivered meals to the different communities and also brought books, toys, and clothing for them. The Ole Miss Order of Omega awarded our chapter the Chancellor's cup for the Best Overall Sorority on campus for the second year in a row at our campus Greek Awards. This is the third time our chapter has won this award in the last four years!
Our chapter also aimed to become more involved in scholastic and Associated Student Body affairs. We campaigned for one of our senior members, Allie Winters, for Miss Ole Miss. She was the third runner up and we are so proud of her. We also campaigned for a freshman, sophomore, junior and senior maid during Homecoming. Allie Bridgers was voted Ole Miss Junior maid and was presented on the field during our Homecoming football game. This year, five Kappas participated in Ole Miss Parade of Beauties, a competition for Most Beautiful on campus. Anna Cate Miller (freshman) and Charlie Ann Nix (freshman) placed in the top 25!
Our Chapter Council has also made grades a priority for Delta Rho. Grades have unfortunately been a consistent challenge, but we continue to strive for improvement. We have worked on rewarding those who continue to make good grades and hosted an academic banquet for each semester. We also continue to aid our members who need and/or want academic support. Our chapter hires tutors and ask our own members to tutor girls if they wish. We also hold monitored study hours. Girls who are on academic period of concern can use all these tools to help improve their grades. Many Kappas are part of different honors societies on campus. Some of the honors societies our members are involved in include Gamma Beta Phi, Phi Eta Sigma, National Society for Collegiate Scholars, Alpha Lambda Delta, Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, Order of Omega and many more.
Our overall goal for most years is to continue to work on becoming more philanthropically involved both on campus & in the community as well as working to improve our grades. We definitely became more involved on campus during 2014 and continue to expand our Feed the Hunger philanthropy. We also worked on our grades by incorporating more tutors and study hours. We hope to continue to improve in all of these areas!
The Ole Miss campus has grown rapidly in the past few years. As a result, the Greek community has seen an increase in recruitment registration. This has caused there to be more rounds during recruitment. Philanthropy and skit day both lasted two days this year. 2014 Bid Day was a very exciting day as our chapter welcomed 146 New Members. Ole Miss plans to welcome a new chapter, Alpha Phi next year. This will mean that there will be 11 sororities on campus, which will hopefully allow for smaller pledge classes. We are eager to see how Greek life will continue to change over the next few years!
Overall, our chapter is very enthusiastic and excited about all that we do. Our chapter is very large but we do continue to pride ourselves on close-knit relationships. Happiness is a very common feeling throughout the Kappa house. We love to spend time together eating meals and just being there for each other. There is always something going on for us to do together, whether it is eating dinner, going to sisterhood events or, spending late nights studying. Having such a large chapter means that there will always be someone there for you. Our chapter also strives to strengthen the bonds between different pledge classes. One way we do this is by having a week dedicated to big and little sisters. This is a great time to bring all four pledge classes together and get to know each other better. Overall, our chapter is a very happy one and we seem to get along across the board!
Our chapter of Kappa owns a sorority house on campus. This is where we hold our chapter meetings. We do not currently have specified chapter room but we convert the dining room into a meeting space on our meeting days. We do hope to eventually expand the house and include a specific chapter room!
Delta Rho house corporation owns our own house on campus. We do, however, rent the land from the University. We are required to live in the house for our junior year. There are only 56 spaces in the house, which is not enough spaces to accommodate the entire chapter. The first people to get spots in the house are the girls on Chapter Council. After that, Rush Team will then take up spaces. After that there are usually about 10 spots that are filled with girls who have the most points. This is our only house in the history of our chapter.
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