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The chapter meets Monday nights in Tillman Hall, which is one of the most famous buildings on campus. We meet in the auditorium, but the hall is home to classrooms and offices as well. Chapter council meetings are held on Wednesday nights in the chapter room on the Kappa Kappa Gamma hall.
==Highlights of 2019==
This year was a very exciting year for Epsilon Mu! We accomplished so many great achieved and are proud of the progress we have made throughout the last year. We initiated a record breaking 89 new members into our chapter and are so excited to see our chapter continue to grow and thrive. These young women have exemplified what it means to be apart of Kappa Kappa Gamma and we look forward to the wonderful things they will bring to our chapter in years to come. We had 9 members participate in Panhellenic recruitment as recruitment counselors, or Pi Chis, one of which was Stuart Burger who was elected Head Pi Chi! Our bid day theme was "Life in the Dream House" and members were encouraged to wear all pink. After Bid Day, all of our members went to one of the upperclassman's house for dinner and a fun afternoon on a waterslide in the backyard!
Our chapter still resides on the 2nd floor of Norris Hall, in the Greek Quad, where 34 of our sophomore members live every year. It is on that floor that we have our chapter room where we host Chapter Council meetings on Sunday nights and Standards meetings on Wednesday nights. We host chapter meetings in the auditorium of Tillman Hall every Monday night.
The Epsilon Mu chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma here at Clemson is one of the more well-rounded sororities on campus with the individual involvement of our members, the grades we make, and the passion we have for our chapter and our university. We have members that are involved in the Clemson University Guide Association, Undergraduate Student Government, Student Alumni Council, Tiger Pride, various Honors and Business societies, club sports, and many more organizations. Epsilon Mu has always strived for success in academia and our hard work in the Spring semester of 2019 brought our total grade point average to 3.533. This brings our chapter to 7th place out of 12 total sororities and 8th place in all of Greek Life, surpassing the average GPA of Greek Life campus wide, 3.360. It is this hard work that earned our chapter the Scholastic Achievement award for the year.
This year our new members participated in Epsilon Mu's first ever New Member retreat! Accompanied by our chapter council officers and some upperclassman volunteers, our 89 new members enjoyed a fun filled, relaxing weekend full of games and bonding activities in the mountains of North Carolina at Keystone summer camp. This was an awesome opportunity for our girls to get to know one another and begin building relationships and making memories that they will carry with them the rest of their lives!
Our chapter is an extremely close knit group of women, including both active members and alumnae. This year our Chapter Council advisor, Susan Jezek, put together an entire board of advisors to assist our chapters leaders, providing guidance and advice, enabling them to lead our chapter to the best of their ability. This advisory board was an enormous success and we look forward to the things our chapter council will be able to accomplish with such a great resource. It is because of this that our chapter received the Alumni Development award for the past year.
In June of 2019, one of our most recent alumnae, Morgan Nichols, won Miss South Carolina at the competition in Columbia, SC. Her passion for her social initiative platform, Stronger With STEM, which promotes career development for women in the life sciences, technology, and mathematics, was started right here in Clemson where she studied genetics. We cheered her on in the Miss America pageant on December 19th!
