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==Highlights of 2014== This year Eta Mu chapter saw a lot of growth, both in size and character. During ourWinter quarter, we did not have a recruitment yet again due to the large recruitment the previousquarter. We had our semi-formal dance with a “Masquerade” theme, where girls and their dateswere encouraged to dress very classy and wear tons of fun masks. Spring quarter, we continued participating in and hosting great philanthropies and events. Our philanthropy chairmen, Judy Kim and Megan Heynen, had our annual “Kappa Kickoff” donating books to the local boys and girlsclub, which was a very well attended event among both Greek life and Campus life. Anotherprominent event we held was Sapphire Ball. We returned to the location where it was held twoyears ago, Cocoanut Grove. This time, however, it was held in the main ballroom instead of thesunroom, which allowed for more room for tables, dancing and a nice stage for the DJ and to giveout awards. Our Event Chairwomen, Gabby Desio and Charlotte Byrn-Bailey, did fabulous jobs inhosting this event and everyone had a great time. Eta Mu hosted another event, which was our annual Etiquette dinner with a few select gentlemen from each Fraternity on campus. They were impressed, and responded positively to the event. We continued to stay off the focus letter this year, which we were very excited about. Our chapter participated in Greek Week again this year, in events such as futsol, powderpuff, pizza eating, puzzles relay and lip sync. We came in first for powderpuff for the second year in a row, second in pizza eating, third in lipsync, and fourth overall. Our Education Chairman, Ruby Lynch, organized many useful and informative senior programs,and she and Marshal, Lauren Porter, put on a lovely Senior Banquet and Red Room ceremony,giving our seniors a well deserved send off into becoming Alumna. The Vice President of AcademicExcellence held an Academic Banquet at the end of the school year to commend women of thechapter for their hard work on their academics. Over the summer we were fortunate enough to send out President Lauren Wurst, Vice President-Organization Sanaz Batmanghilich and Risk Management Chair Amelia Lawrence to Convention in Texas. They all returned with great tips for running the chapter more efficiently and we won an Award for Recruitment and got HonorableMention for Ritual, Risk Management and Advisor-Officer Relations. Fall quarter started off withanother very successful recruitment with 59 girls receiving bids and 57 becoming sisters. Marshaland Education chairman had a successful Kappa “Birthday Party,” which was well attended,especially by the new members. In late October, we had a wonderful Leadership Consultant,Whitney Cross, come visit our chapter for a week. She gave our CC many helpful tips on how to runour CC positions. We held our annual “Spare the Hooters” bowling philanthropy with Sigma PiFraternity, which raised a very generous amount to donate to support breast cancer research. Towards the end of that quarter, we had a Red Carpet themed date event called “Kappa Krush.”The girls in the chapter and their dates had a lot of fun attending and dressing up as celebritycouples. Nominations and elections for officers for the 2015 calendar year went smoothly andresulted in a new, cohesive chapter council. Multiple study rooms were booked for girls to utilizeduring dead week and finals week at the library to help them study, along with a study break withsnacks all put on by the VPAE, Laura Morales. Eta Mu had a wonderfully productive year! Campus:Our campus is constantly bettering itself. There is new construction going on to create moredormitories and facilities for our ever expanding student population. Class sizes are as large asever, making the enrollment process a little more difficult. However, our sisters always manage todo their best. We joke around about large classes, saying in large classes there will always be atleast one kappa to study with. Chapter:Our chapter has been doing very well, especially at handling a constantly growing chapter. Wehave grown so big that we have been finding it difficult to find spaces large enough to host all ofus! Luckily, our campus has some pretty huge lecture halls. Our chapter is very diverse in everyway, but we all still love and support each other always. Each sister brings something unique to ourchapter, helping us grow and develop all the time. We sent out our graduating seniors withcongratulations, love, and support, and we welcomed in the new classes similarly. We do not have on campus housing, or a place only for ourselves at all. Because of this, we reservea room every week to have meetings in. If we have sisterhoods, we either reserve a room on campusor rent one off. Our meetings are generally in the science building, which is owned by theuniversity. We do not have on campus housing, nor have we ever. Sometimes a few girls live together on or offcampus, but they're always fairly small houses, and they often live with students from differentcampus organizations or non-Greek students. We have an off campus storage unit to hold all of ourbelongings. Informally, we have been thinking about different ways to accommodate Kappa livingarrangements, but it is very difficult. ==Highlights of the 2020s:== (Information from chapter history reports, scholarship, group honors/awards, traditions, special events, changes on campus or within chapter, overall nature of the chapter, chapter goals, challenges and how they were overcome, etc.)