greekquarterlyVolume 12 Issue 3

Chapter Reports

The lovely women of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Delta Pi Chapter have done it again. Spring semester concluded with the Chapter’s 50th anniversary celebration, attendance at The Great Lakes Regional Conference where the Chapter received 1st place awards for Outstanding Undergraduate Chapter and Outstanding Undergraduate Member, India Kaczmarek; and 2nd place award for Outstanding Essay, Danielle Thomas. The Chapter had the highest GPA (3.17) of all Sororities and Fraternities within the National Pan-Hellenic Council. The chapter’s community service included assisting in building a home for Habitat for Humanity.

India Kaczmarek, a 2010 Leadership Fellow, represented the Chapter at the Leadership Seminar in Atlanta, Georgia, from July 14-July 17, 2011 where 3,900 attended.

Members are excited for the 2011/2012 school year. We have prepared so many wonderful events for students. Planned events for the semester are: Change for Change: The PolitAKAl Edition, Think Pink: Eat & Save Green, and Let’s Talk about Sex...Baby

(sex information form) and many community service projects. We will have a presentation on domestic violence (stalking) and campus safety. We have kicked off our Emerging Young Leaders Program ( a signature program for 6th – 8th grade middle school girls) which provides leadership skills development, civic engagement, enhanced academic preparation and character building . This program is collaborative effort with our Graduate Chapter and will be held at the LeBron James Clubhouse at the Joy Park Community Center. This program is a partnership with the Boys and Girls Club.

We’d like to start by congratulating all of the chapters on an eventful start to the school year with all of the recruitment events. The Alpha Phi men of Phi Kappa Tau are just a few weeks into the semester and are pressing forward to continue making our campus more enjoyable for everyone! The men have worked hard all summer and have been looking forward to the Fall. Our biggest philanthropy event took place this summer raising over $16,000, with all the proceeds going to the Hole in the Wall Camps. We have already gotten head start on our annual haunted house this Halloween!

Phi Kappa Tau – Alpha Phi Chapter

Alpha Kappa Alpha –Sorority, Inc., Delta Pi Chapter

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We are proud to have twelve new members with us this fall and are looking forward to showing them what it means to be Greek! Determination and perseverance are the two best words to describe the attitude of Phi Kappa Tau – Alpha Phi chapter this Fall. We look forward to continuing this already great semester and we wish the entire Greek Community the best of luck on the rest of the semester.

The brothers of the Alpha Omicron chapter of Phi Gamma Delta would like to welcome you back from summer vacation, and wish you best of luck in the upcoming semester. The men of FIJI have been hard at work at: philanthropy, service events, and improving grades. By the end of spring 2011, the Alpha Omicron Chapter rose over $5,000 in philanthropy, and had over 800 hours of service.

This year the bar was set to a new standard, some of the goals for this semester are: raise over $4000 in philanthropy, 1000 service hours, and a 3.2 GPA. This year FIJI will be part of: Nazareth Housing, American Red Cross, Roadrunner Marathon, Catholic Youth Organization, and Art in the Square. We are very

excited to host our FIJI 5K on October 15, 2011to help benefit the children of the Akron Community Hospital, and we hope to see the Greek community in attendance. We wish you best of luck in this upcoming semester and in all Greek week events.

The Men of Alpha Sigma Phi have had a very busy but good beginning of the school year. We already had our annual fall philanthropy event, The Livestrong Bike-A-Thon, which took place on September 10th, and it went very well. We are also proud to announce that we had some men of excellent standards join our ranks over the summer and we have a great start with recruitment this semester already! We are looking forward to the many events that other chapters are putting on throughout the fall and we are excited for the possibilities of a new semester. We hope that everyone had an excellent summer and we are looking forward to seeing all of you on campus!

Phi Gamma Delta – Alpha Omicron Chapter

Alpha Sigma Phi –Epsilon Sigma Chapter

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This semester, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. the UnmiZtakable Upsilon Epsilon Chapter, has been the 2011 recipient of the OMD Award, which recognizes the most outstanding NPHC Greek organization that promotes multicultural unity amongst various organizations on campus. Next month Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. and S.L.A.M. will be hosting Café Blue: S.L.A.M. Edition on October 11th from 7-9pm in Student Union Ballroom B. S.L.A.M, Spoken Like A Metaphor, is a new organization on campus that provides workshops and public speaking seminars to help college students that have a creative passion for poetry and spoken word, become comfortable sharing their work in front of an audience. Admission is a new or gently used fall/winter baby item, or $3.

Also, every third Saturday of the month, Upsilon Epsilon and our graduate chapter, Mu Rho Zeta, participate in Stork’s Nest, a national program of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., that provides prenatal care and information to expecting mothers of lower income, at the South Arlington United Methodist Church from 10-1pm. Please check us out at www.yezetas.com or feel free to e mail us at yezetas@yahoo.com if you are interested in volunteering. We hope you will join us as we prepare to have a wonderful semester.

The men of Phi Delta Theta are excited to be back for a new school year and have already accomplished a great deal to prepare for the Fall semester. Over the summer we were proud to have two brothers serve as delegates in our annual Emerging Leaders Institute at Miami University and our president Michael Denissoff attend as a peer mentor. Our summer executive retreat set the tone to keep our focus on academics, recruitment, and service. The result has been a class of thirteen quality Phikeia, who we look forward to introducing to all of Greek life, and more to come in our second Fall class. A long outstanding house improvement has come to fruition as we recently completed our theatre room which will also serve in capacity as a place for new member education.

We recently hosted a scholarship breakfast with alumni, friends, and family to recognize individual academic achievement and introduce Phi Delta Theta to the families of our new members. Later that afternoon a dedication ceremony was held at the northwestern gate of Infocision Stadium to honor all varsity Phi athletes with the presentation of a memorial walkway.

Looking to the future, we anticipate a strong showing in Greek Week and wish luck to all of our fellow participants. At the end of October we will be fundraising at Cedar Point and volunteering at the Green community Haunted Hay Ride. Plans are also underway for an all Greek tailgate on November 14th, so stay tuned!

Zeta Phi Beta – Sorority, Inc. Upsilon Epsilon Chapter

Phi Delta Theta –Ohio Epsilon Chapter

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Fall semester is in full swing and has been very promising for the ladies of Delta Gamma Eta chapter had an amazing and successful recruitment, culminating in the addition of 18 wonderful new women on September 18, 2011, which placed us over house total. We are very excited to have these amazing new women and congratulations to all the chapters on a great recruitment.

On Sunday, October 9th we will be hosting Anchor Slam, our major philanthropy event for this semester. It will start at 10am in the Student Recreation Center. Proceeds will be donated to Service for Sight, which is our national Philanthropy and aids the blind and visually impaired. We look forward to having the support of all the Greek chapters on campus.

The women of Delta Gamma are anxiously awaiting Greek Week and Homecoming. With other events still around the corner, Delta Gamma looks forward to working with the rest of the Greek community to make this a successful semester!

Lambda Chi Alpha has recently Associated 9 new Associate Members into the active Chapter. The Lambda Chi’s are very excited for Fall recruitment, and many other worthy candidates will be associated upon our next Associate Member Ceremony this coming Sunday. Our regional responsibilities as a “Big Brother Chapter” to the new Baldwin Wallace Lambda Chi Alpha Chapter have really put an electric fee; in the air as far as our sense of Brotherhood! The opportunity to reach out to other Lambda Chi Chapters at other colleges and help them grow and prosper is an honor.

Our Chapter President Jharell D. Watkins as well as several other officers will be venturing to the B.W. College to associate MORE of their new members this weekend. The lad’s were ecstatic to learn that team 4 is stacked with power players within the Akron Greek Community, and especially the return of the stroll off Queen’s of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. We are pumped for the stroll off again this year, and are anxious to learn more about the history of strolling as we approach big show.

The stage is set and while balancing our responsibilities to the community, our own chapter, and continually managing our increasing 3.0 GPA we hope to bring new heights to Lambda Chi Alpha! Roll Chi!

2011 has been a very exciting year for the men of Phi Sigma Kappa at the University of Akron and we hope to keep that momentum moving forward. In the spring we initiated 6 new brothers into the fraternity and have since seen them enjoy continue to enjoy their Phi Sig experience.

Delta Gamma – Eta Chapter Lambda Chi Alpha –Gamma Alpha Chapter

Phi Sigma Kappa –Eta Triton Capter

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In the Summer, brothers returned for a fundraiser held at Wing Warehouse in Canal Park with members helping serve food, bar back, and even cook to help raise money for house improvements. The 63rd annual Phi Sigma Kappa convention was held in New Orleans, LA from August 3rd through the 6th, which three of our brothers attended and will never forget.

Starting the 2011 fall semester, the men of Phi Sig have been busy with applying new mulch donated by Donzell’s Greenhouse and Garden Center, participating in IFC recruitment events and the Akron Roadrunner Marathon, and more. Through the fall semester we have associated 11 new members and hope to see them take full of advantage of everything Phi Sigma Kappa has to offer. We look forward to making fall 2011 a great semester and wish all of the Greek organizations on campus good luck this year.

The Beta Tau chapter of Alpha Delta Pi had a great summer and return to Akron! This summer, our chapter President had the opportunity to go to Alpha Delta Pi’s Grand Convention, where we were honored to be named a Golden Lion chapter again! Only 12 out of 138 chapters receive this honor, and we are so proud of Beta Tau’s hard work and dedication to our sorority.

This fall, Beta Tau was so excited to welcome home eighteen amazing women who we can now call sisters. We have spent a lot of time getting to know our new women through many great sisterhoods like ice cream trips and movie nights! In our spare time, Beta Tau started three flag football teams and is ready to defend the all campus championship won last year.

Beta Tau also has been busy planning philanthropy events in order to raise money for our philanthropy, The Ronald McDonald House. Alpha Delta Pi kicked off our fundraising through a Dine To Donate night at the Barley House on September 22 and is holding the annual Pi-A-Palooza event at the chapter house on

October 4. It will be a cookout with dinner and dessert made by our sisters, or to “Pi” an ADPi (our most popular event at Pi-A-Palooza). All proceeds go to a great cause!

Alpha Delta Pi would like to congratulate all Greek chapters for a great recruitment and wishes everyone a happy fall and best of luck at Greek Week!

Alpha Phi is happy to report that their end of the year philanthropy event, “Eat Your Heart Out” with Phi Delta Theta was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who participated, watched, and bought T-shirts. Look out for the same thing next year as it will become an annual event!

Alpha Delta Pi – Beta Tau Chapter Alpha Phi –

Eta Gamma Chapter

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This semester we are looking forward to participating in everyone’s philanthropy events, as well as our own “King of Hearts”. King of Hearts is a male beauty pageant in which any man from a student organization can participate. All of the proceeds go to the Alpha Phi foundation which supports Women’s Cardiac Care. We are also hosting an alumni Founders Day ceremony and are excited to celebrate the founding of our beloved Alpha Phi.

We are more than proud to say this recruitment was extremely successful and we are excited to be welcoming so many beautiful new sisters into our chapter. Congratulations to all of Greek life on a recruitment job well done!

Over the summer, the women of the Omega Chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta continued to be very philanthropic by spending much of their time volunteering at events and helping the community. Some of the women volunteered one afternoon serving pasta at the Italian Festival and went off to serve ice cream sundaes to campers at Camp Quality. Camp Quality was the philanthropy for Songfest 2011, and it was great seeing our hard work put to good use as the camp is designed for kids with cancer having the opportunity to just be kids. To build our sisterhood even higher, during the month of July our sisters

attended a camping trip where they went rafting, horseback riding, and even set up their camp sites by themselves!

When the fall semester came around, we were very busy with recruitment events. We are very excited to get to know our 18 new sisters that accepted bids to our chapter. We are excited to hold sisterhood events such as a movie night this week to get the chance to bond as a bigger, better chapter. We are also very proud of our flag football team that started their games at the beginning of September. Alpha Gamma Delta –

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As the semester continues on there are many events that we will be looking forward to participating in. Once again we will be hosting Lip Jam to raise money for the Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation. We will also be going to Cedar Point again this year to be “fun”-raisers. The women of Alpha Gamma Delta will also be hosting their first event Octoberfest at our chapter house on October 15, 2011 from 1pm to 4pm. We are excited to see all of the Greeks participate in a pie eating contest, pumpkin carving contest, and a corn hole tournament! There will be yummy fall treats as well such as caramel apples and hot cider.

The men of Tau Kappa Epsilon had a great spring and summer semester. In the spring, we participated in the Relay for Life by selling hotdogs to the walkers. We paired up with Lambda Chi for this event, and raised a lot of money despite the rainy conditions. Also, we participated in our own philanthropy event, Walk a Mile in her shoes. This is a walk around downtown Akron held by the Rape Crisis Center to raise awareness of rape and abuse. The walkers literally walk a mile in women’s shoes while holding signs and banners. To raise money for the event we sold bracelets in the Student Union, with the rape crisis center’s number on them. Over the summer we held an alumni golf outing, which greatly strengthened the relationship between alumnus and the younger members.

This fall we have many plans for service in the community. So far we have already participated in our Taste of the NFL event which is at the Pro Football Hall of Fame where we helped set up and tear down for the event. Also this Sunday we have the Light the Night walk which we will be helping set up and providing assistance during the event. We have planned is a Memory Walk at Blossom supporting aid for Alzheimer’s disease and a Heart Walk for Heart Disease. We are starting out this year very strong and look forward to more events in the future.

The women of Kappa Kappa Gamma have had a busy but wonderful start to our fall semester. Kappas would like to first congratulate everyone on such a successful recruitment. We are honored to welcome 21 beautiful women into our chapter! We celebrated bid day with many different carnival activities to go along with our theme, Kappa Karnival. We were blessed to have our Leadership Consultant, Brianne, stay with for the entire week of recruitment. She was a true inspiration to each and every one of us and kept us motivated all throughout recruitment.

Before the fall semester began, Kappas were busy all throughout the summer. In June, Kappas from all over Ohio headed to Ashley, Ohio to visit Kappa Kidney Camp. These women were able to spend an entire day tye dying and playing with children who are on kidney dialysis or have received a kidney transplant. Also, many women were granted the Kappa Scholarship for $3,000 for all of their hard work and dedication to Lambda Chapter. We were also more than happy to welcome a Kappa transfer student from Denison University into our chapter!

We are looking forward to celebrating and hosting our annual philanthropy event Balloon Pop. Kappas have been preparing and planning for many months and couldn’t be more excited to raise money for Kappa Kidney Camp. Along with Balloon Pop, the women of Kappa Kappa Gamma have a full schedule celebrating our Founder’s Day, Date Party, Greek Week and many sisterhoods and socials throughout the rest of this semester.

Tau Kappa Epsilon –Beta Rho Chapter

Kappa Kappa Gamma –Lamba Chapter

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The Ohio Phi chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is excited to welcome a new semester’s start and enjoys seeing the campus buzzing yet once again. Our chapter is pleased to announce that we have seven new potential members that have demonstrated the characteristics and promise of true gentlemen. The brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon would like to congratulate these men, and any of the other men or women that have chosen the path to join the Greek community here at The University of Akron. Throughout the summer and early fall, with the help of fundraising, continuous improvements have been made to improve the overall appearance both inside and out of the fraternity house.

As intramurals begin to start up, Sigma Alpha Epsilon is glad to welcome back friendly competition amongst other fraternities. With veterans playing on the offensive side of the ball and a stellar defense, the men of Sigma Alpha Epsilon look to make a run at the championship. Sigma Alpha Epsilon would like to thank all of those that come out and support and watch us. As the semester wears on, Sigma Alpha Epsilon looks forward to participating in various Greek life philanthropy events and fundraisers. Lastly, the men of Sigma Alpha Epsilon would like to wish everyone the best of luck this semester and look forward to seeing everyone’s familiar faces as well as meeting new ones.

Congratulations on a successful first half of the semester! Greek Week 2011, Greek Life: A Buried Treasure was a success between pirate costumes, strolling, AdoptaPlatoon service efforts and more! The ultimate goal, building Greek unity, was displayed by fostering healthy competition in teams consisting of chapters and organizations from all three councils. The final standings were:

1st Place: Pirates Treasure (Alpha Delta Phi, Alpha Kappa Alpha, FIJI, and Phi Kappa Tau)

2nd Place: Lil’ Mermaidz (Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Sigma Phi, Iota Phi Theta, and Sigma Nu)

3rd Place: Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Fun (Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Delta Theta, Tau Kappa Epsilon and Zeta Phi Beta)

4th Place: Team Shipwreck (Alpha Phi Alpha, Delta Gamma, Delta Sigma Theta, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Gamma Rho, and Theta Chi)

5th Place: Team Arrgh (Alpha Phi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Beta Sigma, and Phi Sigma Kappa)

A special thanks to Brittany Svirberly, Dustin Dickens, India Kaczmarek, and Becca Faessel for all of their hard work and dedication to make this week a success!

Sigma Alpha Epsilon – Ohio Phi Chapter

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