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==Highlights of 2012==
n 2012, some of the girls of the Zeta Nu chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma were granted scholarships and given awards. Anika Yasmin was granted the Ruth Hein Scholarship. Meriah DeJoseph was given the Spirit Award and was a finalist for Outstanding Chapter Leader.
With over 100 active members it can seem overwhelming to get to know every girl on a personal level, which is why strenghtenining our sisterhood bonds was one of the biggest things we needed to work on. So, everyone in our chapter took a more active role to be a good sister. To ensure that every girl would feel included, the members were given the chance to suggest ideas to the Standards committee on what activites they would like to do for sisterhoods so that they were more enjoyable and something the chapter could look forward to. Because every girl has been given the chance to take more of an initiative in her own sisterhood we have seen success in our attempts of strengthening our bonds of friendship through increased attendance to meeting and campus events, and in the overall morale of our chapter as a whole.
==Highlights of 2013==
In 2013, during our spring quarter, we, as a chapter, moved from 6th place to 3rd place out of the nine (now ten) sororities for our overall academic GPA. One of our members, Colleen Bole, received the Ruth Wortmann Hein Scholarship at our Founder’s day Brunch this year. In terms of Panhellenic representation, we extend our gratitude for Gurleen Virk, a member of Panhellenic executive board from Fall Quarter of 2012 to Spring Quarter of 2013 and Shi Eckerman, a member of Junior Panhellenic serving for the same term and our support and congratulations to Sydney Johnson, a member of Panhellenic’s executive board currently and Jessica Chang and Claire Genesy, members on Junior Panhellenic currently as well.
The Zeta Nu chapter upheld our tradition of hosting monthly sisterhoods. We had such sisterhoods as beach sisterhoods as well as pumpkin carving. Our Vice President of Standards has set goals concerning an increase in the quantity and quality of sisterhoods. She wants to host sisterhoods that will help our chapter work well together and so we are looking forward to our next sisterhood where the theme is team building. A highlight of the year was receiving our new pledge class and initiating them. We had a pledge class of about 60 girls and we are proud to have added 58 new members to our chapter this year. In October and November, we transitioned the girls through our sapphire program where girls were able to meet and interact with actives and look for potential Bigs. Once the big/little selection process was done, we had our big/little reveal week. Throughout the week, the new Bigs gave hints to their Littles until reveal day came where the Bigs presented their Littles with presents and welcomed them into their families.
Apart from facilitating loving relationships between actives and new members, we strengthened the bonds between members of the newest pledge class. We had a new member sleepover that allowed for the girls to get to understand and appreciate one another on a deeper level. The main focus of these months was to strengthen the bond between sisters and emphasize the values that Kappa Kappa Gamma holds dear. The women of Kappa Kappa Gamma also dedicated themselves not only to our philanthropy but to others as well. We put on our “Kappa Karnival” which raises funds for the Kappa foundation and for the San Diego Children’s Center. “Kappa Karnival” raised $4500. We also participated in the San Diego Children’s Center Walk and the local Breast Cancer walk.
The women of Kappa Kappa Gamma teamed up with the men of Sigma Nu to make sandwiches for the local homeless shelter; this is an event we repeat throughout the year. We supported other chapters in Panhellenic by participating in Tri Delta’s philanthropy “Delta Idol”, Kappa Alpha Theta’s philanthropy “Haunted Casa” and Alpha Epsilon Phi’s philanthropy “A Phine Affair”. We also supported our fraternities in IFC on campus by participating in Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s powderpuff, Sigma Nu’s can drive, and Lambda Chi’s can drive.
Our chapter goals for this year are to have empowering themes for our sisterhoods and higher participation for panhellenic events (such as excel- a leadership conference on campus). We’ve worked towards solving these goals by scheduling our next sisterhood with the theme “teambuilding.” We also improved our attendance at excel and hopefully future events by emphasizing the important of such events and creating a new organization system devised of three separate groups that are scheduled for certain events. Because every girl has been given the chance to take more of an initiative in her own sisterhood and in Panhellenic as a whole, we’ve seen success in our attempts of strengthening our bonds of friendship through increased attendance to events and in the overall moral of our chapter as a whole.
Located in scenic La Jolla just minutes away from the beach, the University of California, San Diego is known as one of the top public research institutions in the nation since its founding in 1960. There are over 23,000 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students. UCSD is ranked the 7th best public school in the nation and 35th among the nation’s top 50 universities. The Zeta Nu Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma is one of the ten Panhellenic sororities at UCSD. With over 100 active members, we are also one of the largest sororities on campus. The members of the Zeta Nu chapter pride themselves in maintaining good relationships with not only the other chapters in the Panhellenic council but with other school affiliated organizations as well. We always strive to support and represent within our chapter and within Panhellenic as a whole. We welcomed a new sorority on our campus recently, Alpha Omicron Pi. They were voted onto campus during Spring Quarter of 2013 and officially started recruitment in December 2013. We are looking forward to working with Alpha Omicron Pi and continuing to work with the rest of Panhellenic.
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