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Recent changes to The University of New Mexico's campus was the addition of a new dormitory called Casas Del Rio in the Fall of 2012. This allowed students to now no longer break their dorm contracts once they had signed them. In previous years dorm contracts could be broken. This allowed only five new members to live in the Kappa house, but the house was still filled with actives. In the fall 26 new members were initiated into the gamma beta chapter. The nature of our chapter is upbeat and positive, something that we have wanted to strengthen and did.
==Highlight of 2014==
January
•All of the new officers attended Leadership Day
•Practices for Greek sing began, we were paired with ATO for small group and Kappa Sigma and Lambda Theta Phi for large group
•Awarded 1st in grades for Fall 2013
February
•Our chapter raised the most money for the Greek Week Philanthropy, Basket of Hope
•For Greek Week we placed 3rd in open mic and large group
•We participated in a community service project at the Zoo
•We also put on a hasher appreciation dinner to thank all of our hashers
March
•At the Greek week Banquet Gamma Beta was recognized as a 5 star chapter
•We had serenades for the Spring pledge class of fraternities on campus
•Kappa, Delilah Davila, participated in the Ms. Silva Rose pageant
•Kappa’s attended the UNM fundraiser Lobothon
April
•14 girls attended the Senior Tea for the pledge class of 2010
•Gamma Beta had a wonderful formal in Santa Fe
•Kappa’s raised over $10,000 for UNM Children’s Hospital and Alumni Foundation from the Spring golf tournament
•LC visited Gamma Beta and offered advice to all the chapter officers
•Kappa trainer, Denise Rugani, talked to the chapter about sisterhood
•1 Kappa ran for UNM’s senate, ASUNM
•Kappa had four members become Rho Gammas, including the Panhellenic president and VP of recruitment
May
•Greek Graduation
•Kappa’s worked hard to finish up finals
June/July
•President Jade Sierra represented Gamma Beta at the National conference where we won the New Member Program award and received an honorable mention for academic excellence
August
•We completed Pre-recruitment and Recruitment right before school started again for the fall
•Welcomed 34 new members
•Had 2 Kappas go on international exchanges, 1 went to Scotland and one to Jordan
•Awarded 2nd in grades for Spring 2014
September
•President Jade Sierra was voted runner up for Homecoming Queen
•Our new members participated in serenades with several fraternities
•Sarah Bartlett attended Leadership academy
•Many Kappas showed support for ALS and participated in a fundraiser walk
•Alex Hidalgo was voted Gamma Beta’s Greek Week chairman
October
•We had an awesome Big-little week
•Many Kappas attended a Founders Day banquet with alumni
•We volunteered for the Campus event Fall frenzy, where many organizations got together and helped clean up campus
•34 members got initiated into the Gamma Beta chapter
November
•Gamma Beta had a great Formal at the Hotel Andaluz
•We hosted our Philanthropy event, Kappa Kakes, at our house
•Our LC visited and helped our new Chapter Council become comfortable with their positions
•VP of Standards, Amanda Flores, put on Spirit week with fun challenges to win prizes
•Kappas showed their gratitude for their bigs during Big Appreciation Week
•We elected a new Chapter Council
December
•Installed the new officers
•Kappas helped with Hanging of the Greens around campus
•Finals week
•Amanda miller was elected for Academic Excellence on Panhellenic Committee
Recent changes on campus:
This past year on campus the dining hall, La Posada, was renovated and all freshman living in dorms were required to buy a meal plan. The Cottages were built to increase campus housing. The soccer and basketball teams did well.
Overall nature of chapter:
As a chapter we have a mutual respect for all of our sisters and share a strong bond of sisterhood. Kappas continued to be very high achieving and stayed involved on campus in other clubs and activities. We support our sisters and want the best for them and our chapter. Gamma Beta values accountability, respect, and compassion for our members.
Challenges and how they were overcome:
Some challenges we encountered as a chapter this past year involved: filling the house, social media, and paying Billhighway with credit or debit cards. The problem of filling the house was conquered through positive encouragements by House board and requiring applications for live-out to be due earlier to allow for better preparation. The challenge of monitoring social media was overcome through diligent monitoring by the PR officer of member’s personal sites. Members who continued to pay Billhighway with a credit or debit card were sent to standards.
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