QuarterlyGreekTau Kappa Epsilon On behalf of the men in Tau Kappa Epsilon we would like to welcome everybody back to what already has become a very exciting and eventful year. Internally in Tau Kappa Epsilon the ball has been rolling and our men a striving to achieve academic success, while participating in different events on and around campus, some of these events include Greek week, stadium cleaning after Akron football games, and the walk for Juvenile Diabetes in Canton. In addition we participated and won Alpha Delta Pi’s Pi Teching competition for the second straight year and are already looking forward to Lip Jam and other up coming events.

8th EditionVolume 1October 2007 Issue

Alpha Kappa Alpha The ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incor-porated are looking forward to a sensational fall semester. After participating in campus events geared toward Greek Life, the Delta Pi Chapter is ready to reach out to the community. Alpha Kappa Alpha is looking forward to the workshops that are set to run this semester. These workshops are focused on the empowerment of women through health, self preservation and economic awareness. AKA will also be participating in various community service events throughout the year. Active in the community and within our national body, we promptly attended our regional Undergraduate Roundup and Leadership Conference in September. During this event, Alpha Kappa Alpha chapters got together to discuss the sorority and how each chapter can be of better service to all mankind. AKA is proud of their cultivation and encouragement of high scholastic and ethical standards. That encouragement motivates each member to strive towards excellence each semester. Congratulations to member LaDonna Mills for her receipt of both the most improved and highest GPA intra-sorority scholarships. Proudly, LaDonna was recognized both locally and regionally for her achievements. We also congratulate our members Tia Hill and Tyra Nelson who graduated in the spring of 2007. We are also looking forward to adding April Parms-Elloie and Roxanne Witherspoon to our list of outstanding graduates this December. With the graduations of our prestigious members came the nominations of new officers for the semester. Our new vice president, Ivellisse Road and Ivy Leaf Reporter Erica Bronner recently stepped into their new positions of leadership and are ready to work. Keep your eyes open for these women of Alpha Kappa Alpha this semester, extending service with purpose.

Kappa Kappa Gamma The ladies of Kappa Kappa Gamma would like to congratulate everyone on a great recruitment. We’ve been enjoying getting to know our 19 new members and can’t wait until initiation! We would like to thank all of the individuals that participated in our Balloon Pop, all of the proceeds will go directly to our local philanthropy, Kappa Kidney Camp. KKG has had a great semester so far placing 3rd in Greek Week, keeping busy with study hours, and enjoying our semester. We hope everyone else is having a great semester too!

TKE’s day out for paintball

National Awards Received by The University of Akron Greek Life Organizations

Phi Delta Theta GHQ Trophy Bigger’s Ritual Trophy Community Service Citation Outstanding Improvement Award

Phi Kappa Tau Academic Excellence Award Administrative Excellence Award Certificate of Merit Order of the Star (overall chapter excellence)

Delta Gamma During the summer, the ladies of Delta Gamma were very prosperous in receiving many scholarships. Two of our women received National Delta Gamma scholarships and 18 of our women were given the Dorothy Garrett Martin Scholarships totaling over 28,000 dollars!

Tau Kappa Epsilon Over the summer the Beta Rho chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon received six national awards. Four of the six awards were excellence awards; the other two being honorable mention awards. The awards included excellence in recruitment, alumni relations, service, and involvement. The other two of six awards included programming and academics. As this year progresses we are yet again making improvements and striving for our nationals most prestige award of “Top TKE”.

Alpha Delta Pi Our president, Amy Kovacevich, along with eighteen other Beta Tau chapter members and alumnae attended Grand Convention in Danvers, Massachusetts from June 27 to July 1, 2007. We are not only honored, but we are privileged to have brought home the following awards. The Dorothy Shaw Leadership Award was presented to Katelin Getz. This award is the highest individual honor given to a collegiate member of Alpha Delta Pi. We received The Diamond Four Point Award, which is given yearly to chapters for over-all performance during the past year. It represents a solid foundation for which all should strive to achieve. Other awards we received were The Legacy Award, Recruitment Excellence Award, Alpha Education Programming Excellence, Total Membership Education Excellence, Scholarship Excellence, Panhellenic Excellence, and Finance Excellence. Our Akron Area Alumnae Association was awarded with the Diamond Four Point Award as well as the Pi Pride Award, which is the highest honor an alumnae association can receive. Our most honored triumph was bringing home the Maxine Blake Golden Lion Award for the second time! This award is the highest honor a chapter may receive and is awarded each Convention to chapters that excel in all areas of chapter operations and programming for a minimum period of six years. Congratulations ladies, keep up the hard work and dedication!

ReportsChapterDelta Gamma The women of Delta Gamma have had a very busy semester! We started off the semester with a very successful recruitment putting us at house total! We are very excited to welcome our new sisters and have them join their families in the upcoming big/little event. After finishing recruitment we ended September with our annual T-Off philanthropy event. We would like to thank everyone who participated in the event for making it successful. We would like to wish the Greek community an exciting and successful semester!

Alpha Delta pi The women of Alpha Delta Pi would like to welcome our eighteen amazing new members. We would like to thank Stephanie Mrofchak, Sarah Barbuto, and Mary Zitnik for the great work they did to give us such a great recruitment! We started this semester with our Lion Share Challenge, Pi Teching, which was held to benefit our philanthropy, The Ronald McDonald House. We kicked off our Pi Teching Challenge with a barbeque on September 25. The challenge lasted until September 27. The first place winners were the men of Tau Kappa Epsilon, who were awarded $100 to their philanthropy. In second place were the men of Sigma Nu, who were awarded $50 towards their philanthropy. In third place were the men of Lambda Chi Alpha, who were awarded $30 towards their philanthropy. Thank you to everyone who participated! On October 13, we held our Alpha Delta Pi Style Show, where a handful of our members and alumni strutted down the runway and modeled fashions during a luncheon at Todaro’s in Akron. This style show helped raise money for the Jean Uhl Memorial Fund and The Ronald McDonald House. The women of Alpha Delta Pi have volunteered at different service events this semester, including the Akron Marathon, Lambda Chi Alpha’s “Pumpkin Bust”, and Delta Gamma’s “Pi a DG”. Congratulations to those who won during Greek Week! We anticipate this semester to be plenty of fun as we attend philanthropy events, intramurals, our Semi- Formal Dance, socials, and as we continue to strengthen our sisterhood. Good luck to everyone this semester, espe-cially those who graduate this December!

Phi Kappa Tau Phi Kappa Tau started out this year with various endeavors to continue our commitment to life long leadership, brotherhood, and service. As always, we continue to place a high emphasis on academic excellence through weekly mandated study hours and on going grade verifications throughout the semester. Recently, our chapter had the opportunity to assist the greater Akron Community through our volunteer efforts at the annual Akron Road Runner Marathon. Additionally, we look forward to volunteering at Make a Difference Day at the end of October. Some of the biggest changes to Phi Tau have taken place right in our back yard. Our patio and new retaining wall project which was sponsored by our chapter’s Graduate Council began over the summer and was completed at the start of October. On October 13, we had the official dedication of the patio with both active members and alumni present to celebrate our success. Additionally, using the resources provided by the Greek Week Double Dare Challenge, we rebuilt our outdoor fire pit area by enlarging the upper portion of the hill in our backyard. We are very excited about all of our recent accomplishments as men of character and look forward to many more successes this year.

Lambda Chi Alpha September 29th was the host of our first annual pumpkin bust. The entire week was full of events all based around a pumpkin theme. Events included a pumpkin pie baking and eating contest, pumpkin carving contest, pumpkin throwing contest, and many others. Alpha Phi was able to edge out the rest of the competition for the win overall of the events that were held throughout the week. Even with our new pumpkin bust events we will still be holding our annual presidents kidnapping on Sunday Nov 4th. Participating chapters will have to bring canned foods and/or money to the Lambda Chi house in order to free their presidents. The winning chapter who brings in the most poundage in food or money, will have a trophy with their name on a plate which is passed to the winner each year. All proceeds will go directly to The North American Food Drive and The Akron-Canton Food Bank.

Panhellenic Council The Panhellenic Council has been working hard to make this fall semester a great one. Formal recruitment was a success with all of the chapters gaining wonderful new women. Congratulations to PHC Vice President of Recruitment Brittany Wolonsky, PHC President Ali Rearick, Head Rho Gamma Jessica Congeni, and all of the Rho Gammas from each chapter that worked hard all summer to put on this year’s formal recruitment. Chapters have been recruiting since then with their own continuous open bidding events and we wish them the best of luck! The women of the Panhellenic Council wish everyone the best of luck on their midterms and the rest of their semes-ter!

Order of Omega The Alpha Omicron Chapter of the Order of Omega at the University of Akron is Proud to announce the success of our first Greek Week Event “The Legend of the Omega Temple”. As a National Greek Honorary, the game of testing speed and intellect seemed appropriate for the chapter’s event as well as to challenge the Greek community to their highest potential. We hope the program was met with acceptance and enthusiasm for we anticipate it marked the beginning of an annual event. Order of Omega offers great opportunities for Leadership and Scholarship, and we would like to encourage the Greek community to apply. The Induction Date into the Order of Omega is scheduled for November 10, 2007.

Phi Delta Theta The men of Phi Delta Theta would like to welcome everyone back from a great summer! It proved to be a productive and rewarding summer for Phi Delt, as we garnered the following awards from our General Headquarters: GHQ Trophy, Bigger’s Ritual Trophy, Community Service Citation, and the Outstanding Improvement Award. In addition, our chapter spent the summer changing our New Member Education program as well as our recruitment philosophy. We are well on our way to reaching our goal of doubling our chapter size by the end of this semester. In a nutshell, that has been the entire focus of our chapter thus far in the semester.We would like to wish everyone a productive and successful rest of the semester. We look forward to participating in other chapter’s social and philanthropic events now that we’ve settled down into our temporary house.

Delta Gamma Bid Day 2007

Rho Lambda This year Rho Lambda has many great activities and events planned. Rho Lambda has sisterhoods planned as well as socials with other organizations planned for this semester. We would also like to wish everyone a great and productive rest of the semester!

Lonestar Over the summer Lone Star celebrated its 125th anniversary which was held at the Student Union. Over 500 Lone Star Alumni from all over our great country attended this event. Throughout the summer and this fall we have volunteered our time in the campaign to elect Mayor Don Plusquellic and Councilman Bob Keith of ward 8. For our philanthropy event this fall/ winter we will be have Santa come from the North Pole to visit the children in the student union to hear their Christmas wishes. We will raise money from this and donate it to Children’s Hospital. We are also donating hand-decorated pumpkins to the children as well.