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The Gamma Rho chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma constantly strives to support the philanthropic efforts of other fraternities, sororities, and campus-wide organizations. It seeks to exude a positive image of Greek Life every single day, and it always yearns to search for new ways to promote a Panhellenic atmosphere on campus. Lately, Greek life at Allegheny has been confronted with the issue of inclusivity. As a result, the fraternities and sororities at Allegheny have been taking the necessary strides to learn about the concerns presented by students on campus in order to create a more inclusive Greek life community. The Gamma Rho chapter has gone through much advancement over the past year, and I am so proud to have had the opportunity to witness these positive changes. Although Gamma Rho has already improved many aspects of its foundational elements, the active members continue to explore their opportunities to strengthen their chapter even further. I cannot wait to see where we end up next year.
==Highlights of 2014==
We are Kappa’s, and now more than ever we are involved! No matter what activity, club or class you find yourself in on campus there is a high possibility that you will see one of our sisters there too. Our chapter morale has reached a record high throughout this year. Together as a chapter many of us see the importance of working together and being proud of the group of girls that are in Kappa with us. Our friendship and support for one another is clearly evident to people on our campus.
One way that we help each other out as sisters is through academic support. Because we are busy and Allegheny academics can be challenging we try to support and congratulate our sisters when they achieve something great. Each week during chapter we nominate a “wise owl”. A wise owl is a member in the chapter that should be recognized for achieving something great academically. We also have study hours in our library several times a week. Many of our sisters spend time together studying for exams. We also hold each other accountable for going to class too! Academic support is important to us, we love to see our sisters succeed.
An accomplishment that we are proud of this year were our two awards that we won during Greek Week. Greek Week is a friendly competition between Greek life that lasts throughout the course of a week. Every day there is a new competition that takes place. Throughout the week the organizations earn points for winning the challenges. Our sister’s preformed a circus themed Greek Sing with songs from Britney Spears, Katy Perry and other artists. We were delighted when we were awarded first place in Greek Sing. We also won the title as over-all Greek Week Sorority Champions. During the Greek Awards this year we were nominated and won “Breakout Chapter of the Year”.
This year was filled with many philanthropy events. We continued to host our usual events and even managed to throw in a few new ones. In the spring we started our philanthropic year by selling Kappa Kisses and Song Grams for the Rose McGill Fund. In March we won the award of most money raised for the annual SAMS (Students against Multiple Sclerosis) competition. A few weeks after SAMS, Kappa Alpha Theta asked us to co-host an open mic night with them in Grounds for Change. Together we raised money for the Panhellenic Emergency Grant. Many of our sisters also participate in Up Till Dawn. This is a special night that happens once a year where members of Allegheny Community individually raise $100 each to benefit St. Jude. The night is full of games, and snacks. Because some of our sisters are especially great at baking cookies and treats we decided to hold our own bake sale in the Campus Center. The money that we had raised from the bake sell was put towards our national philanthropy RIF. When the weather started to warm up Kappa participated in Relay for Life. All along the stretch of Brooks-Walk many organizations set up tables with games and activities for the members of the Meadville community to play. The money received from Relay for Life helps fund Cancer research.
Instead of just pairing exclusively with other Greek organizations, this year we reached out to other groups on campus to help us host events. Together with GAP we hosted a car smash. A large van was donated to us and students paid to hit and smash the van. The money raised from this event went towards the Children’s Miracle Network. In the future we anticipate co-hosting events with the clubs and groups that we have on our campus.
We started out our fall semester by hosted a kickball tournament with Phi Kappa Psi. It was frigidly cold outside at Robinson Field but the turnout was fantastic and we raised a significant amount of money for the Crawford County Humane Society.
Our local philanthropy is still Headstart. Every week our sisters make visits to see the children. We play, read, and learn with them. This year we hosted the very first Holiday Party with Headstart. We invited the children and their families to come to Allegheny’s Campus and celebrate the Winter Holidays with us. There was even a special appearance from Santa and his favorite reindeer Rudolph. Each child was given a toy to take home with them. It was such a great experience for everyone.
This year we have continued working hard to improve our communication with our Gamma Rho alumni and our advisors. Many of our active sisters are still pen-pals with alumni. This year we celebrated our 126th anniversary on this campus. It’s important that we keep in contact with the sisters that have been here before us. We have such valuable networking through our alumni. We want them to know that we care about keeping them informed and included in our chapter still today. Along with improving alumni connections we want to increase our knowledge about the history of our chapter. Every week we share fun things that we find in our archives and pass them around for the sisters to read during chapter. There are many pictures and notes that show the loyalty and sisterhood that has been on our campus for so long.
Over the past year our chapter grew together very close. It is awesome to watch us improve as individuals and together as sisters. This upcoming year I anticipate to see many great things from the Gamma Rho chapter.
Our campus has really been striving to be more diverse. We support this too!
We hold meetings in our suite. It is on the fourth floor of a dorm building (Brooks Hall). We have been holding meetings in the suite for many years. It was just re-done last year. None of our sisters are able to live in the suite. But several of our sisters live on the fourth floor of Brooks, which is reserved specifically for women of greek life.
==Highlights of the 2020s==
