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Emory University is going through an expansion phase as it redesigns the freshman quad, leading to lots of construction around campus. Most notably, however, was the announcement that the University would be closing its programs in Educational Studies, Visual Arts and Journalism that had the student body up in arms. The University seeks to enhance its curriculum and resources in research and the sciences. Kappa at Emory continues to grow in a variety of ways. Sisters are involved in all areas of campus life, are well-liked by peers and well-respected by professors. Things continue to look promising for more development of Epsilon Epsilon as we begin Spring 2014 Recruitment.
==Highlights of 2014==
2014 was another banner year for the Epsilon Epsilon chapter. We started off the year with another excellent recruitment with the initiation of 56 new sisters. Kappa continued our history of involvement in the Emory community. Our sisters participate in Student Government Association, Student Programing Council, and Emory Panhellenic Council, to name a few. With the growing size of our chapter, our VPS had to get creative with planning sisterhood events to accommodate our large chapter. One of our sisterhood events included renting out nearly an entire bowling alley for an 80s themed bowling and karaoke night. We came together as a chapter to win Emory's Greek Week competition through participating in a number of events including volunteering around Atlanta, showing off our smarts at trivia night, and playing powderpuff football.
EE was recognized by Nationals when we were awarded the National Academic Excellence Award. Spring of 2014 our chapter had the highest GPA of all the sororities at Emory. At Emory's own Greek Awards, we won the Dean's Cup for the third year in a row. Our President from 2013, Taylor Kennedy, had the distinct honor of accepting the Chapter President of the Year award for her excellent leadership in 2013. Our chapter also received an Honorable Mention for Excellence in Standards.
We celebrated Founders Day with a lovely event where current members mingled with Kappa alumni. Certain Kappas received pins for being a part of Kappa for 25, 50, and even 60 years. Some of the pin recipients and other Kappa alumni shared stories from their time as active Kappas and how being a member of our fine organization continued to shape and improve their lives.
This year we also continued to support our local philanthropy, the American Cancer Society Winn Dixie Hope lodge. Sisters volunteer once a month to cook a meal for the residents and then stay to dine and socialize with them. We also raised $775 for the Hope Lodge through a new philanthropy called Kappa Kappa Game-On which was a tug of war tournament. We hope to make this tournament an annual spring philanthropy event. In addition to our local philanthropy, we raised nearly $700 for PAWS, a local animal shelter, and $900 for RIF. Our sisters also engaged in their own charitable works by donating clothes to a local Atlanta shelter, participating in a number of charity runs, and volunteering around Atlanta through Volunteer Emory.
2014 was also a year that allowed our sister to engage in the many social and political issues occurring in the United States and abroad. Some of our sisters worked on political campaigns in Georgia's Gubernatorial and Congressional elections, including helping students register to vote and even driving them to polls on election day. During the social unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, some of our members participated in a student-organized campus "Die-in" and engaged in meaningful discussion about this and other social issues facing our generation. The increased tensions between Israel and Palestine this past fall was a divisive topic amongst Emory students and our even our own sisters who organized and attended events concerning the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Even thought our large chapter did not always have the same opinions concerning these events, we were still able to participate in important intellectual conversations within our chapter and the greater Emory community.
2014 shaped up to be a historically good and bad year at the same time. On the bright side, the US had its highest job growth rate since 1999, many states increased their minimum wages, and numerous states struck down their bans on gay marriage. Unfortunately 2014 was also the year when Ebola decimated West Africa, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared, and Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls. While we do not doubt that 2015 will bring just and many triumphs and trials as this past year, we are confident that our chapter full of engaged, socially conscious, and diverse sisters will face them all with the strength and grace indicative of a Kappa.
Emory began 2014 frozen during a two week snow event that was christened "Snowpocalypse." EE's members enjoyed their snow days sledding, sipping hot cocoa, and binge-watching Netflix with their sisters. In Fall of 2014, Emory completed Raoul Hall which helped house the nearly 1400 new students that make up the Class of 2018. Emory, in coordination with the neighboring Centers for Disease Control, also had the distinct honor of caring for and ultimately curing four healthcare workers who contracted Ebola while caring for the sick at home and abroad.
Our ever-expanding chapter continues to be a positive force within the Emory community. Our sisters are involved in all facets of campus life including serving as Resident Advisors in freshmen dorms, heading programs for Volunteer Emory, and tutoring through Emory's EPASS system.
In 2013 we began holding our chapter meetings in an university owned auditorium located on campus. Our chapter of nearly 150 girls simply could not fit in our old chapter room which is located on the bottom floor of our lodge.
The Sorority Village, where our chapter lodge currently resides, was built in 2006 to provide greek housing for members of our campus's seven sororities. Pre-2006, four officers lived in small apartments located near the Emory University Hospital. These apartments were torn down to make way for a new hospital wing. Those former apartments and our current lodge is owned by the University and is classified as "University Housing." Emory's sorority housing system is different from most other schools because each sorority does not get their own individual house. All of the sororities live in lodges located in the Sorority Village on our Greek Row. These lodges are connected town houses and can house up to 24 sisters.
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