Chapter News
West Region
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM) Chapter of Phi Eta Sigma has been very busy during the Fall 2021 semester. The chapter helped beautify the campus by participating in Fall Frenzy, UNM’s annual campus clean-up event. Through Fall Frenzy, hundreds of undergraduate students come together to serve and better the UNM community. Our members enjoyed their time in service to UNM by planting trees and flowers with their fellow Lobos. Up next for UNM Phi Eta Sigma is our canned food drive for Lobo Food Pantry, UNM’s on-campus food pantry. Lobo Food Pantry is an incredible resource that is available to all UNM students with no questions asked, once a day every day. We will be accepting donations of non-perishable food items for two days, after which all collected items will be given to Lobo Food Pantry. Finally, UNM Phi Eta Sigma will continue our chapter’s long-held tradition of participating in the University of New Mexico’s oldest tradition, Hanging of the Greens, which dates back to the 1930s. Each year on the first Friday of December, UNM students, staff, and alumni light up campus with over 14,000 luminarias to kick off the holiday season. Chapter members will fold bags, fill them with sand, set them up around campus, and light them, as part of UNM Phi Eta Sigma’s contribution to the beloved annual event.
The chapter is excited for the Spring semester and looks forward to the continuation of our service to UNM and its students.
Chapter News
Midwest Region
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay We have been creative in holding Zoom and Teams meetings in ’20-’21 and engaging our membership in selfmotivated community service projects. We held our first virtual induction ceremony in April ’21 creating a You Tube Video to share with all inductees.
The fall ’21 semester brought more adaptations as we returned to campus following necessary CDC guidelines. Due to COVID-19 and national office travel restrictions, we had to cancel our fall ’21 leadership conference The MARC and streamline it to a 2-day conference
for UWGB members only. As planning took a turn, we elected to postpone the conference scheduled for November 5-7, until spring ‘22. We will not let these changes pull us down. Moving the conference to spring of 2022 will allow our E-board time to See page 16
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