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==Highlights of 2021==
This past year was another great year for Delta Eta chapter. To start off the spring semester, Kappa participated in Greek Week. The chapter won Lip Sync and the Flag Competition and ended up as the 2021 Greek Week champions We were also awarded the Unity award during our annual Greek Choice awards ceremony at the end of the week. This is an award our chapter was honored to receive because we have been attempting to create a more inclusive space in our community. To show this, we added the position of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to our chapter council. This position sends out resources to our chapter about various equity issues to keep everyone updated and informed. The DEI chair will also send out on campus and off campus resources for people who would like to get involved.
Over the year, the chapter put an emphasis academics. Our VPAE put on monthly study nights at the house and frequently put out on campus academic resources. Study nights were worth double study points, and members who had the most points at the end of the semester won a gift card as a prize. Council’s other goal was to get the chapter back into the values and history that we were starting to lose during such a long period online. Our Wellness chair put a focus on sisterhood by continuing with our weekly “Kappa of the Week” and received many heartfelt nominations for outstanding members. With in person events during the fall, we were once again able to participate in little traditions such as singing the Kappa Blessing during chapter dinners. We had several different song practices to reteach our members the songs, and some alumnae even volunteered to help lead them.
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After a completely virtual spring recruitment, we welcomed our new members with a car parade outside of our house. We initiated 7 wonderful new members who have continued to show their love for Kappa throughout the year. We watched with pride as 25 of our seniors graduated at the end of the semester and wished them well.
In the fall, we saw many of the new alumnae at brunch during our Founders Day celebration which was held in the Alumni House on campus. It was nice to see our sisters once again with the proper precautions being taken during the event. We watched as alumnae received their 25, 50, and 65-year Milestone Pins. Recipients of our chapter awards were Remi Kamberian for the Maude Gorham award, Jess Sharma for the Cherry Ridges award, and Zoie Reynolds for the Alice Pittman award. After an exciting recruitment where we met a record amount of potential new members, we welcomed in our largest pledge class yet with a tailgate themed bid day titled, “Drafting the Best”. We initiated 69 incredible new members during our first in person initiation since 2019, and they will all continue to grow the chapter with the resilience they all hold.
2021 was a challenging year, Delta Eta made the most of it. The chapter worked hard to get involved on and off campus, get to know each other once again, and poured their love for Kappa into all they did. It was a year full of wonderful moments and Delta Eta can’t wait to see what the next year has in store!
Delta Eta chapter chose to support NAMI as our local philanthropy in 2018, and are thrilled to still be supporting them. As stated on the foundation’s website, “NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness. NAMI Utah’s mission is to ensure dignity and improve the lives of those who live with mental illness and their families through support, education and advocacy.” This is a mission near and dear to Delta Eta’s heart, as we want all of our members, as well as everyone in our community, to feel that they are loved and valued. We are
proud to support the effort to destigmatize mental illness.
Our chapter supported Kappa’s philanthropies this past year by holding our first ever philanthropy week. The week consisted of at least one event every day and the houses across campus would compete against each other for the most donations and participation.
This was our first year with a DEI Chair, so Delta Eta had a strong focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. Our DEI officer frequently sent out resources and posts to educate the chapter on important matters, and our Public Relations chair would also make educational posts on social media. We had a few chapter trainings including one with the Ute tribe and why the University of Utah is allowed to use their name. During recruitment we encouraged our members to add their pronouns to their nametags if they felt comfortable and changed the words in some of our recruitment songs in an attempt to make them more gender neutral.
Because of COVID-19, the spring semester started off with the continuation of completely virtual chapter meetings. We had two days of virtual spring recruitment in February and a car parade for bid day where actives decorated their cars and drove past the house. FSL at the University of Utah started to allow some in-person events with the approval of a safety plan later in the semester, so after mainly online sisterhoods and exchanges, we were able to have a hybrid philanthropy week. We had a Kappaccino and Krispy Kreme event on Monday where people could buy coffee, hot chocolate, and donuts online and pick them up outside the house. Tuesday had a similar setup but we sold cookies and milk, and on Wednesday we held a Tik Tok competition. On Thursday people could go to Chipotle, mention Kappa, and part of the profits would be sent to our philanthropies, and throughout the week we sold hoodies online. We were also able to have a hybrid inspiration period. The week started off with a virtual Returning of the Pin Ceremony on Monday, a small in-person yoga sisterhood outside
with a zoom option on Tuesday, Sigma within the Delta in person with a zoom option on Wednesday, and then a virtual combined initiation ceremony on Saturday morning.
For the fall semester, Utah started opening back up so we started off with a completely in-person work week with masks required of course. We split our chapter up into three groups and rotated having one group in person while the other two were online for chapter meetings, and this continued until the COVID-19 positivity rate started getting high again late in November and we switched back to completely virtual meetings. Before this happened, we were still able to have a fully in-person recruitment with a zoom option and Bid Day was held outside. The new member retreat was held in a mansion in Paradise, Utah. There were several sisterhoods for potential bigs to get to know the new members and Big/Little reveal was held in-person on the lawn outside of Kappa. We had several smaller sisterhoods such as a financial wellness sisterhood, service sisterhood, and one at Torrent Cycle as well as study nights at the house. Philanthropy week was once again all in-person. The week started with a banner competition and the option to get frozen yogurt on Monday. On Tuesday we had a talent show that was open to everyone, and a scavenger hunt around campus on Wednesday. We had our annual Kappa Gobble outside on Thursday, and the opportunity to buy Krispy Kreme donuts and a kickball competition on Friday. To end the week, we held our second Golden Key Gala. An in-person mock initiation ceremony was held for the Spring 20’s, Fall 20’s and Spring 21’s since they were unable to experience it when they got initiated, and then we had inspiration period fully in-person with a zoom link to some events. For this we asked that everyone show a negative COVID-19 test before Fireside Ceremony if they wanted to participate in initiation. Returning of the Pin was held outside, we had an in-person sisterhood at the movie theater, and Sigma within the Delta was held at the house. Fireside Ceremony was held at the venue we had dinner at since it was larger and had better ventilation than our house. For initiation, house board generously donated KN-95 masks for everyone, we had an air purifier in the chapter room, and kept the door and windows open with the fans going.
==Highlights of 2022==
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