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The fraternities and sororities at Knox have distinctly different ways of recruiting members. Notably one thing that makes the college different from many other schools is that no freshmen are allowed to join the Greek system during their first term at Knox. Sorority recruitment consists of three rounds. The first is sisterhood round, the next one is philanthropy round and the third being a preference round.
==2012==
We began 2012 by welcoming eight new members into Eta Kappa chapter with a successful formal recruitment. In February, we held our annual Reading is Key event at the Galesburg Public Library. In March, we celebrated the fifth anniversary of our chapter, and it was amazing to see just how far we've come in such a short amount of time.
After Spring Break, we also welcomed back three of our sisters who had been studying abroad in Spain and we held COB and welcomed another three new women into our chapter. That month, we also elected our new Chapter Council, a group of strong and capable who were installed in April. The incoming and outgoing members of Chapter Council participated in a weekend of bonding and training at our annual Kappa Kabin at an advisor's cabin.
In the spring, we also participated in our campus's Greek Week, in which we won first place against eleven other Greek-letter organizations. When we returned to campus in the fall, we began work on our annual Win-A-Date fundraiser. Through cooperation with other Greek-letter organizations on campus, we were able to raise almost $2,000 to benefit the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, which has aided one of our very own Eta Kappa members. We also won Sigma Chi's annual Derby Days, a friendly competition between all of the sororities on campus. Fall term we had the highest GPA average that we have ever had as a chapter and we currently have the highest GPA of all the Greek organizations at Knox.
In the spring, Teresa Amott, was installed as the 19th president of Knox College. It was an inspiration to our chapter and women across campus to see our first female president. In the fall, Knox's Panhellenic Council voted to lower total, so we were unable to hold informal recruitment. Since then, total has been raised and we are excited to hold informal recruitment again in fall 2013.
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