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The University of Arkansas continues to grow and expand with 26,754 students enrolled on campus. This year we saw the addition of new buildings on campus, including Champions Hall and the Fred W. Smith Football Center. The University also experienced a change in administration after Chancellor G. David Gearhart retired in July after holding the position for twenty years. Former Chancellor Dr. Dan Ferritor stepped in as interim Chancellor for the Fall 2015 semester. Along with the University, Greek life has also been growing by leaps and bounds, with now 26% of undergrads participating in a Greek organization. With this growth, the Panhellenic Council has also discussed plans for bringing new chapters to campus and we expect to see the addition of new organizations within the next few years. The Gamma Nu chapter is the largest chapter on campus with over 430 members and we continually adjust to maintain such a large chapter. Our diverse members are known to be very active on campus within their own colleges, in student government, and various student organizations. Arkansas Kappa’s have a great reputation at the U of A, as well as in the Fayetteville community. We strive to maintain a strong relationship with our Greek Life staff and other Greek councils on campus. We continue to hold pride in our large focus on academics and scholarship: Gamma Nu has held either 1st or 2nd place in all-sorority average GPA for the past seven semesters. Overall, Gamma Nu strives to uphold the ideals and principles of the Fraternity in all aspects of college life.
==Highlights of 2016==
The ladies of Gamma Nu were very involved and active in many areas of Greek life and registered student organizations during the 2016 school year. This year, Kappa participated in the Greek Life homecoming, which consisted of a large lawn decoration and a Greek life parade. Kappa participated in Carol of the Greeks, the philanthropy event put on by Phi Gamma Delta, and won! They practiced hard to put on a holiday show. At the Miss University of Arkansas pageant, member Bethany Miller represented us beautifully. Two members of Gamma Nu, Madison Cole and our president, Nancy Smith, represented us on homecoming court. Gamma Nu collected 16,000 cans for Lambda Chi Alpha's annual Watermelon Bust, which goes to Lifesource food pantry. Gamma Nu had a very successful recruitment through which we initiated 115 members.
At the annual Order of Omega award ceremony Kappa was beyond honored to receive so many awards and honorable mentions. The ceremony was led by the president of Order of Omega, Gamma Nu Sara Bryant. The new president of Order of Omega was announced, which was Gamma Nu Madison Cole. Gamma Nu won many awards, including the Academic Excellence award and the Award of Excellence. Gamma Nu Hannah Birch won Outstanding Chapter President, Gamma Nu Josie Dubois won Model Initiate, and Gamma Nu Sara Bryant won Outstanding Senior. It was a great night for Kappa to be honored by the Greek Life community.
This fall, Delta Gamma came to the University of Arkansas. Gamma Nu volunteered to allow their new members to use our lawn on their Bid Day, which held place in September. This was a great opportunity for Kappa to be able to give back to the Panhellenic community and welcome a new chapter to campus. We also held a luncheon at our weekly "Chicken Finger Friday" for the international students who are on campus this year. They came and ate with our members and were given tours by some of the Gamma Nus.
This spring, we had 106 members receive 4.0s. It was an incredible feat because many of our members are in challenging majors, as well as being involved all over campus.
This year, homecoming was completely different for University of Arkansas greek life. In the past each sorority was combined with a fraternity, and the pairing worked to create lawn decorations, a float for the parade, and competed for the most amount of people to donate to the blood drive, to dance in the step show, and to play in the intermural football game. This year, Panhellenic and IFC voted as a whole to not participate in any of these activities as a competition, but the whole group would create a lawn decoration, a float, and the donations would not be a competition.
In years past, there were five women on homecoming court. This year, there were women girls on homecoming court, as well as seven men. We were proud to see Kappa represented on the court.
Overall, our chapter holds ourselves to the highest standards. We are known on campus for being "Kappa ladies", which means that we are consistently pushing ourselves to be better and to do the right thing. We are a sorority that is very proud of our sisterhood, our morals, and our accomplishments.
Kappa's philanthropy chair hosts our annual event at Grace Hill elementary school in which we donate three books to each student in Kindergarten at the school. Gamma Nu continues our weekly philanthropy of donating our time at Washington Elementary School, in which we assist teachers, students, and the school as a whole.
Gamma Nu chose Grace Hill because it is an underprivileged school in our community. It has a lot of students below the poverty level whom may not have the opportunity to own their own books to read at home. Students who have their own books to read at home learn to read faster and are more likely to develop a lifetime habit of reading. Many of these students do not own any books of their own, and through our philanthropy, we were able to aide these students.
Washington Elementary school is a weekly tradition that our philanthropy chair coordinates. Through this, Gamma Nus sign up for a classroom to visit once a week for a semester. They go and assist the teacher in whatever way he/she needs. This can include making copies, running errands, reading to the children, testing the children with flashcards, making crafts, keeping the children from misbehaving, and many more activities. This has proved to be a wonderful program. The principal of Washington, Mrs. Ashley McLarty, was a Kappa. She has told us time and time again how much the school benefits from Gamma Nus going and helping the school.
Our chapter meets in our chapter room that is in the basement of our house. It can hold the entire chapter, which has 431 members.
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