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CSUN’s Greek life experienced some setbacks and hardships due to continued poor decision making and negative social media attention that reflected poorly on our campus Greek life. But Kappa managed to uphold our standards and follow our bylaws to remain up to par with our standards and academic excellence. Kappa continued to reserve study rooms in the library each week for girls in need of a quiet place to study and get work done. As well as fun activities during chapter meeting such as the No Skippy Jar, where girls put there names into a jar if they didn’t skip any class that week and a name was randomly chosen to win a great prize. Also, the Geeks of the Week, where any member who received and A on an exam or quiz, texted the Vice President of Academic Excellence a picture of their score and their names were read in meeting and were automatically entered into a monthly giveaway. With this, Epsilon Xi managed to come first in grades during the spring 2015 semester with a chapter overall GPA of a 2.975
==Highlights of 2016==
Epsilon Xi experienced an eventful year filled with sisterly bonding, events, and lifelong memories. We hosted successful philanthropy events that brought us closer together as sisters. This year we have really focused on building strong relationships with one another. We have done so by having philanthropy events and sisterhood events. To start off our semester on February 19th, we had our annual philanthropy event, Reading is Key that was hosted at a local elementary school! We were able to read to children, enjoy fun crafts that were designed to be grade specific, play games, and bond with the children. This event is special to our chapter because we are able to interact with children and see where our proceeds are going to. Shortly after Reading is Key on February 29th, we had our philanthropy event called Kappa Kookie Gathering, that the house chairman puts on to promote Reading is Fundamental. We host this event at the Kappa house and invite fraternities, sororities, friends and family to come and support our cause. We ask each guest to bring one children’s book for admission and then they are welcome to eat delicious baked goods and mingle. To end our spring semester, our philanthropy chairman planned an awesome event called Kappa Kappa Gameday. For this event, we invited fraternities to come and participate in a flag football tournament. All of the proceeds, went to the Corinne McClane Scholarship. This scholarship was awarded to our president, Lexi Wilson. To start off the fall semester with a splash, on October 8th, we hosted another philanthropy event, Kappa Splash, that was definitely one for the books! Kappa Splash is a diving competition between fraternity men that were judged by their Biggest Splash, Best Belly Flop, and Most Creative Dive that had us all laughing. This event we raised over 25,000 children books, triple the amount raised last year, that were donated to different schools around our community. Our last philanthropy event of the semester was called Kappa Con Queso which is nacho average philanthropy. On November 16th, We were able to celebrate our 42nd year philanthropy event called Kappa Con Queso, around all of the people that we love. This event only cost $5 to eat endless nachos and got the chance to dance and have fun with our sisters. The proceeds from Kappa Con Queso went to the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation.
As a chapter we also got to have fun, exciting sisterhood events that were planned for us by our Standards Committee. These sisterhood events really make us grow closer together and this is very important in making our sisterhood continue for many more years. On March 28th, we had our first sisterhood event that entailed renting out a movie theater and enjoying a special screening of “How to be Single.” Not only did we get to enjoy popcorn and candy but we also got to enjoy spending time with our sisters. On April 12th, Instead of having our regular Monday night meeting we had a paper meeting and instead we had another sisterhood event at a bowling alley. This sisterhood event, we got to see some of our sister’s bowling skills and shared lots of laughs. On October 24th, our standards committee put on a Halloween themed sisterhood event where we all cuddled up in the chapter room to watch Hocus Pocus. We also had lots of fun playing games and enjoyed treats like cotton candy and popcorn. November 9th was our last sisterhood event of the semester and it was also the week of initiation. It was lots of fun because our standards committee put on an event with In-n-Out, a bouncy house and puppies!
Over the summer, Our President, the Vice President of Standards, and our lovely advisors traveled to San Diego for the Kappa Kappa Gamma’s 71st Biennial Convention. They connected with sisters from all over the world to share our kappa knowledge and gain new information on ways to help our chapter thrive. We also got the chance to send one of our sisters, Anela Kremicki, to Leadership Academy in Ohio to represent our chapter.
In the spring semester, we did not have recruitment because we already had enough women to fulfill house total. This gave us extra time to get prepared for recruitment in the fall. On August 19th through the 21st, our membership chairman, Deanna Saab hosted our retreat at the kappa house at UCLA. At our retreat, we got to spend lots of time bonding with our sisters, making memories that will last a life time and also prepared for fall recruitment. On September 9th, our chairman hosted our Blue on Blue Dinner, where the chapter got together and got to eat and prepare for recruitment that was soon to come. On September 10th through the 12th, fall recruitment was held and on September 13th we welcomed 35 women into our chapter. On November 12th, 32 women got to be initiated into our chapter.
Epsilon Xi, has shown resiliency to keep our chapter strong. We upheld our bylaws and standing rules bylaws to remain up to par with our standards and academic excellence. Several of our sisters got inducted into the Honors Society of Gamma Sigma Alpha. Our VPAE chairman continues to book study rooms each week so our sisters always have a place to study with our sisters. The VPAE chairman also continues to pass around the No Skippy Jar, which is where sisters put their name in if they didn’t skip class that week and a name is pulled and they get a prize. We also have the Geeks of the Week, where the VPAE chairman reads off names of the women who got A’s on any test, quiz, or paper. Each week, sisters send in their A’s to our VPAE chairman and she reads them to the chapter. This boost moral and also keeps sisters motivated to keep studying and do well in school. Epsilon Xi held our GPA at 2.89.
