Changes

We began last semester with our annual Kappa Crawfish Boil which is our spring philanthropy event. We had it over Parents Weekend and raised a ton of money for Books for Keeps. In March, we all left for Spring Break, but UGA announced a two-week extension of spring break halfway through the week. Eventually, classes were moved online for the remainder of the semester. In-house girls were unable to move out of the house until late April. Adjustment to online classes was difficult, but we still managed to find ways to connect with our chapter. Unfortunately, we had to cancel Cutting of the Ivy, our traditional farewell ceremony for our seniors. In the fall, we had virtual recruitment run by our incredible Recruitment Chairman, Lily Waggoner, and her assistant, Emma Simonton. They lead the chapter through virtual work week and through the confusion and complications of online recruitment. We got such an unbelievable new member class this fall! The New Member Chairman, Ella McGregor, and her assistant, Lily Nichols, put on a spectacular, COVID friendly bid day and made sure all of the new members felt welcomed. The theme was “Dropping Jaws!” Our banners got stolen by some boys from outside of the house that night and Ella tracked them down and got them back! Throughout the fall we tried to find ways to make the new members fell included and connected to the chapter despite all of the restrictions. The sophomores took all of the freshmen on big-little dates and many of the upperclassmen hosted small bachelor watch parties in their houses and included people from every new member class. Virtual Initiation went well and we tried our best to preserve all of our traditions. We still collected and handed out sleep notes to the girls even though they were unable to spend the night at Kappa before Initiation. Over 30 alumni attended virtual Initiation and many came to Athens to surprise their girls in person. A few weeks later, we had a socially distanced version of Big-Little at the Athens Classic Center where all of the girls wore funny hats. Other sisterhood events we had throughout the semester were Little Ice Cream Dude on the Kappa lawn, Sydney Parrish hosted an outdoor yoga class with smoothies, and we had a pure barre Zoom class as a chapter. Overall, despite the pandemic and all of the restrictions and stress it caused this semester, Delta Upsilon chapter had a very successful and happy year!

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