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Beta Eta Deuteron is made up of a group of women who are passionate, intelligent, graceful, kind, and giving. But, the quality that distinguishes our group of girls is a sense of confidence and drive. We make a difference on our campus. At Stanford's ISC Greek Awards, our chapter won the most awards of any chapter on campus, a testament to the fact that we have a strong presence at Stanford. Awards included: Outstanding New Member (Paige Fisher), Greek Woman of the Year (Tierney O’Rourke), Greek Involvement (Molly Hayes), Inter-Sorority Council Runner-up (Molly Hayes), Greek Collaboration Runner-up, and Chapter of the Year Runner-up. One of our sisters will be VP of Recruitment next year to continue our Inter-Sorority involvement. We are made up of powerful athletes, club presidents, leaders in the classroom, and would certainly be described as a group of very strong women.
==Highlights of 2014==
2014 marked an exciting year for Beta Eta Deuteron. At the Stanford Greek Awards, the chapter won the award
for “Outstanding Scholarship” and “Chapter of the Year.” At the same event our very own Elizabeth Woodson
(’15) won the award for “Outstanding University Involvement.” At the Kappa Convention, Stanford Beta Eta
alumna, Charlotte Jones Anderson won an Alumnae Achievement Award.
Scholarship was at an all-time high last year, as we had set an unprecedented record for most 4.0 GPAs in one quarter - 18! Our leaders also attended another successful Kappa National Conference in Texas. This past year, Beta Eta Deuteron has had many successful philanthropy events, including Snowchella, our annual benefit concert, that raised over $5,000 for Support for International Change. Learning from the event, one of our goals for 2015 is to conduct more frequent but smaller, innovative philanthropy events to keep the chapter more engaged and involved in philanthropy and to contribute to more organizations including the Kappa Foundation. In an effort to make ritual a bigger part of our chapter’s experience we added ritual review to the beginning of each meeting. In the future, we hope to continue to improve chapter meeting attendance and increase the number of sisterhood events in order to bring the pledge classes closer together.
The campus climate for Greek life has become significantly more challenging in the past year. The
administration has certainly increased its efforts to scrutinize the Fraternity and Sorority community at Stanford, which is clearly a response to national pressures and movements against Greek life. Discussions of the issue of sexual assault has been prevalent on campus, and Beta Eta Deuteron has played an important role in participating and facilitating these discussions. In order to address these issues, the chapter has participated in discussions of Title IX with Angela Exon from Stanford’s Sexual Assault and Relationship Abuse Center, during which we discussed how our chapter can use our influence on campus and our core values of leadership, respect, and fraternity to be leaders and supporters of the movement to change campus culture surrounding sexual assault. As a chapter, we have made it a point to attend various speakers who focus on the topic, including an informative and heart-wrenching talk survivor-activist Wagatwe Wanjuki. The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life introduced a new program that asked each Greek chapter to nominate a Violence Intervention and Prevention Chair, which would serve as the point person for questions and concerns regarding sexual assault in each chapter. Our chapter nominated two members who have just begun their training in the program. One of our members, Elizabeth Woodson, is spearheading a campus task force on sexual assault and mental healthy in her role as Student Body President of the Undergraduate Community at Stanford. We are proud of her work to help make Stanford a more safe, open, and healthy environment.
Beta Eta Deuteron was founded as an un-housed fraternity in 1892, but was able to build a house on
campus in 1900, the first KKG chapter to do so. In 1944, Stanford removed all women’s fraternities
including Kappa Kappa Gamma, and the house was acquired by the University. In 1978, Bet Eta Deuteron
chapter was reinstalled at Stanford without a house, and the chapter remains un-housed to this day. Our
chapter and chapter council meetings are held in a conference room in the Taube Hillel House on campus.
The building is owned by the University, but operated by the Ziff Center for Jewish Life. Beta Eta
Deuteron rents the room for a small fee on a per quarter basis. Despite our status as an un-housed sorority,
many members choose to live together in the same dorm their sophomore year, which fosters a great
sense of community in the first full year of membership. During the 2014-2015 school year, 31 of the 36
members of the 2017 pledge class live together in a Stanford Dormitory residence entitled Florence
Moore Hall.
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