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|Founded= {{start date and years ago|1978|09|30}}
|College= [httphttps://www.dartmouth.edu/ Dartmouth College]
|Location= Hanover, NH
|Homepage= [httphttps://chaptersdartmouth.kappakappagammakappa.org/epsilonchi/ Epsilon Chi Homepage]|Media= [httphttps://wiki.kappakappagammakkg.org/index.php?title=Category:Epsilon_Chi Media related to Epsilon Chi Chapter]}}
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'''1,703 759 initiates (as of June 20172018)'''
Our chapter chose these organizations due to their prevalence in the Dartmouth Community. These events are campus wide and have garnered support from our chapter for several years. Additionally, one of our sisters, Summer Hammond, was a consistent participant in Relay for Life events and encouraged many of our sisters to participate with her this past year.
==Highlights from 2017==
Our Chapter Council has discussed how we hope to foster sisterhood through organic, supportive relationships among members through things such as family lineages, Women of KKG Panel (now termly), sisterhood breakfast, Sister of the Week, tributes, FaculTEA and regular sisterhood outings and events. We have worked to improve our family lineage procedures in order to bolster bonding between upperclasswomen and new memebrs. From last year, we have continued to increase freshman outreach and community engagement. We also hope to eventually open our space for educational programming in order to foster stronger relationships with others on campus. We also are looking to increase the diversity of our sisterhood, and have had open discussions about diversity both on within our sisterhood and with the larger campus in the hopes of making Kappa an even more inclusive and safe environment, both for our current sisters and the campus populace at large.
This spring, in memory one of our sisters, Summer Hammond, who passed in the Summer of 2015, we decided, with the help of her family, to organize and run a 4v4 soccer tournament in her memory. All proceeds from this event went to her memorial foundation, the Summer's Way Foundation, which supports childhood cancer research and is particularly focused on providing support to families facing Rhabdomyosarcoma. It was an incredibly successful event, and we were able to raise $4,888.53 for Summer's foundation. We hope that this fundraiser will become an annual event. In May, we helped run and all participated in the second annual Memorial Challenge, which is a campus-wide athletic event in memory of two students athletes in the class of 2016 who passed in the winter of 2015; one of these students was a former Kappa, Blaine Steinberg.
Additionally, after the devastational aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, this fall we organized a donation drive to send to the Houston area as aid.
The Moving Dartmouth Forward Initiative is still in effect and has been since 2015. The main goal of this system was to cut down on destructive behavior on our campus and to make Dartmouth a safer and more inclusive environment. Since the spring, hard alcohol has been banned on campus and in compliance with this new policy, we have hosted panels on safe alcohol consumption at Dartmouth with both sisters and administrators. Additionally, we have hosted a diversity panels in order to foster inclusivity and understanding within our house.
Each year we have had sisters participate in the Prouty Fundraiser for the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, the CHad Hero 5k/half marathon, Relay for Life, and the Selamta non-profit. Additionally, each year we have sisters participating in the DREAM mentoring program, the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth Program, and the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. For the past two years, sisters have participated in the Memorial Challenge, an event focused on collective exercise in memory of two student athletes, one of which was a Kappa, Blaine Steinberg.
Our chapter chose these organizations due to their prevalence in the Dartmouth Community. These events are campus wide and have garnered support from our chapter for several years. We also feel it is important to support causes that are in memory of our sisters we have lost over the last few years, such as Summer's tournament and Blaine's Memorial Challenge, to honor their memories and support their families after their sudden passings.
We meet in the chapter room of our sorority house, the largest room in the house. It is a completely open space with furniture that we can either place in a formal manner, or push to the sides of the room for sisterhood bonding activities.
==Highlights from 2018==
During Chapter Council, we have agreed that loyalty and trust in our sisterhood are two of our most important goals we will continue to foster. Another important challenge and goal we continue to work on is increasing the diversity in our chapter. We are proud that we represent sisters from countries all over the world, different states throughout the United States and who are involved in many different places on the Dartmouth campus.
We also would like to keep many of our traditions that have been alive in our chapter to continue and grow, such as Sister of the Week, FaculTEA, Women of KKG Panel, and sisterhood outings and events among many things. In FaculTEA we invite our Dartmouth professors to come to the KKG house to get to know us better over tea and coffee as well as homemade snacks. One sister even reported that after the event, a professor immediatley let her off the waitlist for an over-enrolled class the following term!
Our philanthropic involvement is described in the following paragraphs. Giving back to the greater Dartmouth community as well as to national organizations is extremely important to our chapter, and we therefore support many philanthropic organizations. Many of our sisters were also actively involved in the recent midterm elections in November in New Hampshire, with a few helping campaign for local candidates.
Since 2015, the Moving Dartmouth Forward Initiative has been in effect. The goal of MDF is to make Dartmouth a safer and more inclusive environment. In the spring of 2015 a strict hard alcohol ban was placed on our campus to encourage students to act more responsibly when drinking alcohol. Statistics have shown that now in 2019, there have been far less drinking related accidents at Dartmouth. To support the no hard alcohol policy on campus, KKG has hosted panels on safe alcohol consumption and sexual assault prevention with Movement Against Violence administrators (many of whom are KKG sisters).
==Highlights of the 2020s:==