|Image= [[File:Eta_Xi.jpg|200px]]
|Founded= {{start date and years ago|2009|04|25}}
|College= [httphttps://www.ucmerced.edu/ University of California Merced]
|Location= Merced, CA
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'''122 269 initiates (as of June 20132018)'''
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One of the biggest challenges that were faced in the year 2011 was academics. After having been put on an Academic focus plan to raise the chapter GPA above the All Sorority Average in Spring of 2011, Eta Xi was able to raise its GPA above the average and was taken off of the Academic plan. We were able to use different incentives to get women to study harder for their grades such as Kappa Kash for Good Grade Reports of As and Bs as well as banquet for the women who received a GPA over a 3.0 the previous semester. Kappa Kash is an incentive that was originally created by one of the VP-AEs to reward our women for good grade reports, however, over time, we started to hand out Kappa Kash for a variety of different reasons. For example, addressing the chapter correctly during chapter meeting, or dressing up on our formal dress days. Kappa Kash is basically paper money, which we hold an auction for at the end of each semester that auctions off items such as Kappa gear, gift cards, etc. This has helped our chapter be motivated to attend events, whether mandatory or optional.
==Highlights of 2012==
After a beautiful recruitment featuring "Ain't No hood like Sisterhood" and "Kappa's Greatest Hits," we started the year 2012 with the addition of 22 new members, 19 of whom were initiated and one of whom continued as a new member to be initiated Spring 2013. Starting off the semester right, we spent our first sisterhood hanging out and participating in Bounce House races.
==Highlights of Spring 2013==In Spring of 2013, Eta Xi continued expanding this year with 31 new members, 30 of which were initiated. Our first sisterhood event involved bonding by playing get-to-know-you games and creating Kappa-themed headbands. With the help of our Philanthropy committee, we partnered with the Girl Scouts of the America to sell girl scout cookies on campus and managed to raise over $500 in the first day of selling. We were also able to partner with the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program and host an event on the UC Merced campus for students to donate their hair. Our annual Sapphire Ball this year was held at the Branding Iron for the first time with a Parisian theme. This year our annual visit with the Boys and Girls Club was held on Earth Day; and Kappas had the opportunity to garden plants and spend time interacting with children of all ages. During the Greek Gala held in May, we won two awards for our outstanding university relations and scholarship. The first all-sorority mixer in the history of UC Merced was also held in May, where we were joined by the ladies of Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, and Lambda Theta Nu Sorority Inc. for a day at the park with tons of games and a beautiful lunch. Our chapter has strived to stand out on campus and make our presence known by joining several new social media websites, such as instagram and twitter. We have continued with our goals of academic success in Eta Xi, and this year we ranked number one out of all fraternities and sororities on the Greek Grade report with a 2.819 GPA for Spring semester. We also had the largest percentage of members on the Dean’s List, with 22.54% As the Spring 2013 semester came to an end, we said farewell to 14 graduates and wished them luck as they embarked on their alumnae journeys.
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'''Note ==Highlights of Fall 2013== Eta Xi had a very busy yet successful 2013 Fall Semester. To start off the semester, we held an event on August 29th called Under the Sea with KKG in the cat quad. We had a game booth for people to win goldfish and had other activities to welcome back students. Our annual Kappa Kandyland tabling event was held on September 4th outside of OSL where we passed out candy and to students throughout the day. On September 13th our AE chair held an Academic Banquet to celebrate those in the chapter who achieved a 3.0 GPA the previous spring semester. On September 20th our Philanthropy chair held our first ever Katcha Katha Frisbee event where Greek organizations and other students on campus created teams and played in an ultimate Frisbee tournament. On October 11th we had a mixer with Omega Delta Phi Fraternity Inc. starting with a service event with the Early Childhood Education center in the morning, and having the mixer later that afternoon. Founder’s day lunch was held on October 13th at the Branding Iron restaurant. October 19th our chapter was invited to table at PAA’s annual Barrio Fiesta event on campus. October 21-25th our chapter participated in Kappa Sigma’s first “Kappa Sigma’s Most Wanted Week.” During the same week on October 25th, our award winning philanthropy event “Sock Hop” was held. The next day we had our annual sisterhood event at the pumpkin patch, and the following week from the 27th through November 1st our LC Mary Beth came to visit. From November 12th-15th Eta Xi was partnered with SAE for this years Greek Week that involved various competitive events throughout the week, where we won first place. On November 15th Eta Xi co-hosted a Karaoke Night with PAA that was welcome to all students on campus. On November 22nd Eta Xi co-hosted UC Merced’s first ever Bare Necessities Run which was held in honor of reaching our fundraising goal for Promise for Education to help fund the University of California schools. On the same night, we had our annual thanksgiving mixer with Sigma Alpha Epsilon. On December 4th, we held our annual Kappa Koffee Break in the bobcat layer before finals and offered free coffee and other snacks to students. To finish off the semester, On December 5th we participated in FSC’s Meet the Greek’s housing event where we got to meet and talk toPNM’s. Eta Xi had an incredibly busy semester, and adding to all of our accomplishments, Eta Xi finished the highest Fall GPA amongst all other Greek organizations. Also this year, Janine Fernandez was chosen as Kappa Sigma’s Star, Ashley Sigel was chosen as a Sigma Alpha Epsilon Violet, and Leah Beza was chosen as Sigma Chi’s Sweetheart. At the beginning of our spring 2014 semester we had a recruitment of 40 new members. During the Fall 2013 semester, our campus grew tremendously. The UC Merced campus opened a brand new housing building called Half Dome that is five stories tall and is open to upper classmen as well as freshman. We also had a new student class classroom building open called the SSB (Student Services building). In construction currently is a brand new amphitheater and a second science and engineering building. ==Highlights of Fall 2014== Eta Xi started the exciting fall 2014 semester with welcoming week tabling on the date of 28th of August, and on the date of September 5th, we hosted a welcome week event for anyone who is interested in going Greek, and it was our Kappa Kool Down event at the bowl for anyone who wanted to get away from the summer sun. On the 11th of September, we had an event, “Scoops for Troops” which was collaborated with the veteran club on campus where we sold ice cream to raise funds that was completely donated to the wounded warriors. We also had our Academic Excellence Banquet at Toni’s Courtyard Cafe on the 13th of September to celebrate the hard work the ladies had put in for the past semester. The 19th of September, a few of our athletic sisters participated in the Sigma Chi volleyball tournament. On the 20th of September, we had our Chapter Registrar:'''retreat to Santa Cruz, despite the accident that happened on our way there, we were able to handle it efficiently and minimized any sort of further damages. We welcomed our LC Lauren to our chapter during the week of October 5th to help us to improve our chapters in many different ways possible, and also October the 6th marked the beginning of Kappa Sigma’s Most Wanted Week and our chapter participated in the week-long event that helped to raise funds for Kappa Sigma’s philanthropy, the wounded warrior home. Our education chair, Jasmin Blas held our fabulous Founder’s day at Vista Ranch and Cellar on the 11th of October. On the 17th of October, we had our very first Kappa Kup, human foosball tournament and the purpose of the event was to raise money and awareness for our very own philanthropy, Reading is Fundamental. Please refer On the 24th of October, we had our very own and exciting mixer with Omega Delta Phi, and we also had an exciting event Carnival of Pink throughout the day and were collaborating with Kappa Sigma and helped to your raise awareness on breast cancer. We also competed in a powderpuff competition event that was held by Delta Delta Delta. And on October 25th, we had our annual Pumpkin Patch sisterhood event which was held by our wonderful event chairman, Katrina. On the 27th of October, we joined the Fraternity and Sorority Council for the Sisterhood Soiree for any women who were interested in becoming part of Greek. Our very own Nomination Committee presented the slates of new officers for the year of 2015 to the chapter on November 2nd. We as a whole participated in the Greek Week that was organized by FSC to promote Greek unity with Omega Delta Phi in the week of November 3rd. We also held our very first Kappa Kookoff Chili contest for the first time in the light of the accident and hoping to help out our sisters in need. The following date, November 16th, we voted and finalized the positions of officers as a chapter archives including during our formal chapter meeting minutes . On the 21st of November, we also had our amazing and exciting Thanksgiving Mixer with Sigma Alpha Epsilon. On December 1st, we finished the officer installation during our last formal chapter of the semester. Before the stressful finals week, on the 5th of November, we held our very first distress sisterhood event and the event definitely brought all of us closer and strengthened the bond of sisterhood. We ended our amazing semester at UC Merced with the budget presentation during chapter on the date of December 7th. ==Highlights of Fall 2015== Before we started a new school year for our chapter, Eta Xi, on the 17th of January, had a leadership day for all the newly elected officers. We had recruitment throughout the days of the 23rd and 25th, and we were more than excited to welcome our new sisters to our chapter. On January 30th, we had our new member retreat for all the new members for our chapter. Needless to say, all of us were grateful for this opportunity to get to know the new members better. On the day of February 5th, some of our sisters volunteered to go to support our UC Merced basketball game, pink out. The game brought us closer to each other and followed by the 7th, we celebrated all the Kappa Kappa Geniuses by inviting them to our Academic Excellence banquet. We had the pleasure to connect and mingle with the gentlemen of Sigma Chi on the 13th of February. We had our big and little reveal on the 22nd of February and soon after that, on the 8th of March, we had Sigma within the Delta marking the start of our initiation week. On the 10th of March, blue and blue had sent many wishes from the bigs to the littles prior to the initiation. On the 13th of March, we concluded our inspiration week with fireside and new member sleepover and we couldn’t be more excited to initiate all on the 14th of March, followed by a brunch after and gave us a chance to catch up with our alumnae. On the 18th of March, we hosted our annual event with the Girl Scouts and helped them raise money through the sales of delicious girl scout cookies; nothing made us happier that day than the smiles on everyone’s face. We welcomed our leadership consultant on the 5th of April and we received tremendous help from her experience with kappa, and we are thankful for all the support we received from her as well. On the 10th of April, we had the chance to meet and greet the brothers from Kappa Sigma Fraternity. And we also had a great turn out at the bobcat day, the 11th of April by mingling with the potential new students of UC Merced. On the 15th of April, many of sisters didn’t hesitate to chop their hair off for a great cause, beautiful length. And we said goodbye to our seniors on the 18th and had a blast later the day at our annual formal, sapphire ball. Our sisters also enjoyed our very own sisterhood event that was hosted by education chairman and standards. We also concluded our semester with a composite photo shoot on the 3rd of May and our last chapter. On the 23rd of August, we decided to have a CC retreat to plan ahead for the semester as we prepared for our first fall informal recruitment. On the 3rd and the 4th of September, we had our first two events for the fall informal recruitment and we couldn’t been more excited to get to know them more as we had our third informal recruitment event on the 11th of September as well. On the 12th of September, in order to celebrate the hard work of each ladies, we invited the Kappa Kappa Geniuses who achieved a 3.0 or above to our Academic Excellence banquet. We had our alum mixer followed by the 13th and bid night for the new members who went through fall recruitment on the 14th. On the 18th, we hosted a new member retreat and we also pinned our new members on the 20th of September. We had our annual sisterhood retreat on the 26th of September and it was filled with laughter and great food. We also welcomed the Leadership Consultant’s visit through the 27th to 1st of October. On the 2nd of October, we had our very own mixer with the gentlemen of Omega Delta Phi and we celebrated our Founders’ day on the 10th of October and got a chance to connect with several alums who came down to visit. We also had our new member retreat on the 16th followed by big and little reveal on the 18th of October. Kappa Lemonade stand on the 22nd of October definitely brought joy to the campus through the planning of Public Relation, and we couldn’t be happier to celebrate the beginning of Fall by going to Pumpkin Patch on the 24th. On the 29th of October, our chapter won the first eco-fest that was hosted by UC Merced for being the eco-champion. On the 1st of November marks the beginning of initiation week with Sigma Within a Delta. We also elected our nomination chair for the chapter on the day of 1st as well. As we sent of the best wishes from the bigs to littles at Blue and Blue on the day of November 3rd, we also had our annual philanthropic event Kappa Kup from the 12th to the 14th of November. After a successful thanksgiving event that was hosted by the Event committee, we initiated our new members at Fresno State on the 21st of November. We had election for new officers on the 22nd of November and we also installed the officers on the 30th of November. On the 6th of December, as we said goodbye to our sisters, we had the opportunity to bond with them at the sisterhood event. And the Public Relation Committee decided to give back issues to the UCM community by hosting our annual Kappa Koffee Break. ==Highlights of 2016== The Key previous year was fairly uneventful besides being awarded as blue status for philanthropy and the recent presidential election. As of now the election hasn’t seemed to fill in effect any gaps of the women directly but there is no telling what the future may hold. Other than these two things the chapter has been pretty steady. Campus: Our campus has just approved the 2020 Project meaning the campus should be completely finished by the year 2020. With this growth in the above historical highlightscampus, the chapter begins to grow and adapt to the larger scale. This is especially apparent during philanthropy week-long events when the stakes are higher than ever. Philanthropy: In our community, we have the Women’s Valley Crisis Center which is a place where women and children that have been domestically abused can go to do seek shelter, food, and any materials they may need to survive. If your As a chapter archives , we are not completeallowed to physically go and donate our time so instead we hold various fundraisers to donate money, please research clothes, materials, etc. to the center. Why did your university librarychapter choose this organization(s) to support? As women, we felt that we should support women who do not have the privileges and opportunities that we have. These women are put in situations and helping them find a way out is all we can do. ==Highlights of 2017== Eta Xi had an exciting and productive semester during Spring 2017, beginning with preparation for formal recruitment during Work Week which took place January 9th to January 13th, and recruitment practice, from January 23rd to January 26th. Spring recruitment took place on the last weekend of the month, with spirit night on January 27th, philanthropy day on January 28th, and ending with preference brunch and bid night on January 29th. The chapter ended the month by performing new member pinning on Monday night, January 30th. During the short month of February, new members began to be introduced to chapter life. On February 4th, House Chairman Stephanie Maldonado held a storage clean up and awarded Kappa Kash to members who helped her organize the chapter’s storage. On February 11th, Vice President-Academic Excellence Mariah Estes held the biannual Academic Excellence Banquet at Toni’s Café. The chapter participated in its first mixer of the semester with sorority Delta Delta Delta on February 17th, organized by Events Chairman Ritu Sharma. Concluding the month, new members participated in a new member retreat on February 25th, held by New Member Educator Bridget Ise. The busy month of March began with Events’ hosting Kappa Kappachinos and Sigma Chais on March 2nd, an event held by Eta Xi and the local Sigma Chi fraternity chapter to hand out coffee and energy drinks to students during midterm season, and the chapter’s DIY taco themed mixer with fraternity Kappa Sigma on March 4th. A Leadership Consultant visited the chapter from March 5th to March 12th to assist with Inspiration Week and initiation. Inspiration week, organized by Marshal Dafne Garcia, lasted from March 6th to March 11th; consisting of Blue and Blue ceremony at the Tri-College Center on March 8th, Fireside at Emily Langdon’s on March 10th, and ending with Initiation at the Masonic Lodge on March 11th. On March 9th, Philanthropy Chairman Daisy Cruz hosted a philanthropy event asking members to help her in baking 250 cookies for our local philanthropy, the Women’s Valley Crisis Center. Simultaneously with Inspiration week, Education Chairman Cindy Rosas introduced Secret Sister week where senior members were paired with a secret sister for the week. The chapter participated in fraternity Pi Kappa Phi’s week-long event War of the Roses from March 13th to March 17th. At the end of the week, sisters Isabella Methot and Ashley Alejandre were announced as Roses of Pi Kappa Phi. On March 15th and 16th, Philanthropy Chairman Daisy Cruz had the chapter assist the local Merced Girl Scout troop with their annual cookie sales on campus. The chapter wrapped up the month’s activities by participating in its BBQ themed mixer on March 18th, with fraternity Sigma Chi. The month of April began with the return to classes from spring break and anticipation of Events’ annual formal, Sapphire Ball, which took place on April 8th. From April 10th to April 14th the chapter participated in Sigma Chi’s annual week-long event, Derby Days. Education Chairman had the chapter remind the seniors of how much they will be missed during Senior Farewell on April 15th. From April 17th to April 21st the chapter participated in Fraternity and Sorority Life’s week-long event, Be a Better Member Week. On April 21st, Eta Xi participated in Delta Delta Delta’s annual Kickin’ it for Cancer event. During Bobcat Day on April 22nd, Public Relations Chairman Rei Pham organized members to table in order to promote the chapter and welcome prospective students to the campus newspaper . On April 23rd composite photographs were taken of the chapter and yearbook archives the senior members participated in a Senior Photoshoot. From April 24th to April 28th, the chapter and Philanthropy Chairman teamed up with fraternity Kappa Sigma for our first ever Reading is Fundamental Week- a week dedicated to fundraising for newsworthy information about your RIF and philanthropy. Within this week, Eta Xi hosted the annual Beautiful Lengths philanthropy event. The chapter concluded the month with the last mixer of the semester, with fraternity Pi Kappa Phi. The last chapter of the semester was held on April 30th, before finals week and summer recess. Moreover, to the end of August, the chapterwas reunited for the commencement of the new semester. Leadership Day was held from early morning to midday, for the few new incoming officers. Please double check your work It is always delightful to see influential sisters in a leadership position. As all sisters adjusted to their new classes and all to kick off semester, a mixer with a fellow fraternity Pi Kappa Phi took place September 16. The theme was Game of Thrones in line with the new season premiering around this time. Many games were played for accuracythe grand prize of 3 dragon eggs, but most importantly good times. Contact The following week, the seniors of the chapter Advisory or House Board membershad a Senior Retreat sleep over. We cried, laughed, and smiled together as we got closer to one another and reminisced our favorite memories we had from being in Kappa. To conclude the month of September, the wonderful ladies/true believers of Kappademics, attended the AE Banquet brunch style! For the exciting month of October, Kappa Kappa Gamma held their philanthropy week and much more. October 6, Nom Com were elected and placed. The following day, Kappa took their fall photos at a local Alumnae Association memberspumpkin patch. The following week, Kappa participated in Phi Mu’s philanthropy week (All Greek Together!). The big day finally arrived, Founder’s Day! October 14 was one for the books. Past alumnae and active sisters were together for a Founder’s Day lunch! The love of Kappa was present and strengthened as we got to know our family lineage from many years ago and beautiful voices singing with passion to Kappa songs. From October 23-27, we had the biggest event in Kappa history, Kappa Kup. All week long sisters created events such as Pie-A-Kappa , huge soccer match , penny wars, Jeopardy , talent show , take a picture with a Kappa, RIF Instagram challenge and pop tab competitions. Better late than never a senior photoshoot took place October 29th. Our great events chairman Emily Wang, hosted a mixer with Sigma Tau Zumba style on November 4th! What better way to have fun and burn calories away mainly from laughing at how bad everyone was. November 6th was many peoples favorite occasion especially for students going through midterm season, Kappa Kappachino’s on November 7th. That weekend Kappa started roughing it Yosemite style! A sister hood retreat (aka ka-mping) gathered around the fire singing songs, playing charades, hiking, and more! November 15, Kappa participated in a Sisterhood Soiree to encourage women to go through the recruitment process for the following semester and getting to know other Panhellenic sororities. To end the windy month of November, or your Province Director new officers were slated and installed such as our new lovely president Bridget. We are excited on the new ideas and things to come for our newly sized down chapter council. For the brief month of Chapters December, the last chapter meeting ended December 3. As the month went by sister focused on passing finals and being reunited with their families for assistanceChristmas break.