Illinois State University Fraternity & Sorority Life January 2015
“ACACIA Fraternity Dominates Grades” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant, Fraternity & Sorority Life
Fall 2014 Stats
3.40
ACACIA GPA
3.15
All Sorority GPA
3.01
All Greek GPA
2.80
All ISU Men’s Undergrad GPA
2.79
All Fraternity GPA
Inside this issue: 2015 Leaders
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IFC
4
MGC
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CPC
8
The Hall Grows Darker
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Calendar
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Contact Us: Fraternity and Sorority Life
(309)-438-2151
“Fall 2014 In The Books” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant, Fraternity & Sorority Life
2,668
5,229
Fraternity Service Hours Provided
Sorority Service Hours Provided
$20,020 $30,886 Fraternity Dollars Donated to Charity
Alex Snowden– Coordinator adsnowd@ilstu.edu Alanna Hill– Senior Specialist ahill4@ilstu.edu Ron Burse– Graduate Assistant vpsartburse@ilstu.edu Yesy Garcia– Graduate Assistant vpsaygarcia@ilstu.edu
Sorority Dollars Donated to Charity
Stay Connected
7,897 All Greek Community Service Hours
$50,906
ILSTUFSL
@ILSTUFSL
All Greek Dollars Donated to Charity
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Spring 2015 “All Council Retreat” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant, Fraternity & Sorority Life
On January 9th and 10th the Executive Boards of all governing councils attended a leadership retreat put on by Fraternity and Sorority Life at Lake Williamson in Carlinville, Illinois. Both newly elected and veteran council leaders benefited by learning event management skills, programming best practices, time management skills, and goal setting workshops.
Conversations were framed around the state of the FSL Community and ways to improve and thrive. Each council educated one another on the importance of their governing body as well as ways they would like to see collaboration. One of their favorite leadership activities involved looking to no one other than each other for the support they needed. After some friendly competition and collaboration, all councils were ready to take charge of their roles in the community and began their semester off stronger than ever.
“President’s Retreat” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant, Fraternity & Sorority Life
On January 11th, Fraternity and Sorority Presidents attended a retreat designed to effectively train them on communication, managing different leadership styles and time management. The presidents were also trained on the new FSL Accreditation that will ensure that all organizations get recognized for their hard work in the areas of Academic Achievement, Risk Prevention, Community Engagement, Membership Development and Chapter Management.
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Let The Games Begin “The Greek Game” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant, Fraternity & Sorority Life
Redbird Athletics and Fraternity & Sorority Life have created a partnership to engage members of the fraternal community. Members are invited to create a banner that will hang in Redbird Arena starting February 13th, incorporation of individual organization’s Greek Letters is encouraged. Banners must be supportive of the ISU Redbirds and contain no negative statements about any other schools. Organizations have been given the official memo with rules, dimension guidelines and best practices.
Banners must be submitted by Wednesday, February 11th to FSL in SSB 387. Saturday, February 14th organizations are invited to rally the Redbirds against Wichita State at 5 pm. The game will also be televised on ESPN 2. There will be a special “check in” section for all affiliated members at the south concourse.
Redbird Athletics and FSL will determine a winner by 3 categories: Banner Design Number of Attendees Percentage of Organization that attended.
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Interfraternity Council “IFC Selects Council Philanthropy” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant, Fraternity & Sorority Life
The Interfraternity Council would formally like to welcome Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
SAVE THE DATE: The Interfraternity Council will be hosting a philanthropy event on Saturday, May 2nd benefiting the Fisher House Foundation.
The closest Fisher House is just 2 hours away, near the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital
“Fisher House Foundation is best known for a network of comfort homes where military and veterans’ families can stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment.”
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These homes are located at major military and VA medical centers nationwide. Families that stay in Fisher House can be close to their loved ones to ensure that their veterans are getting the proper support they need to heal. Fisher House Foundation ensures that there is never a lodging fee. Fisher House Foundation also operates the Hero Miles program, using donated frequent flyer miles to bring family members to the bedside of injured service members as well as the Hotels for Heroes program using donated hotel points to allow family members to stay at hotels near medical centers without charge.
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. to our council
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Interfraternity Council “Phresh” Start By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant Fraternity & Sorority Life
The Eta Tau chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has recently joined the Interfraternity Council and has made it very clear that they are committed to making this new opportunity a useful one to promote the mission and vision of their organization.
Pictured from left to right: Jaylon Joyner, Stephen McKinstry, Daryl Langston, Wendall Lytle, & Kadeem Kamal.
In their first week with membership to IFC, Alpha’s entire chapter attended the IFC General Body meeting and supported brother Adam Wright, whom is now serving on the IFC Executive Board as Vice President of Public Affairs. Alpha Phi Alpha continued their strong start to the spring semester by serving and advocate for the local community by hosting a coat drive in the Bone Student Center focused on providing warm clothing to those in need. The Alphas will be hosting another Coat Drive event Monday, February 16, 2015 from 11—2 in the Bone Student Center. Come Donate and Support!
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Multicultural Greek Council “The Newest Swans” By: Rebecca Schwartz, Gamma Phi Omega
Gamma Phi Omega would like to introduce our newest members. Beta Line, 3 STYLAR crossed on December 1, 2014. (From left to right): Captain: Rebecca “OrIana” Schwartz, Deuce: Carol “JaiRA” Martinez, Anchor: Elizabeth “NatIsa” Nunez Gamma Phi Omega will be officially introducing 3 STYLAR to the campus community on Sunday, February 8, 2015 at 2pm at their Public Ceremony in the Escalante Room.
“MGC At AFLV ” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant, Fraternity & Sorority Life
The Multicultural Greek Council took Indianapolis by storm by attending the yearly conference put on by the Association of Fraternal Leadership & Values.
The MGC executive board also welcomed two representatives from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. whom have recently joined the council. (From left to right): Gabby Hohn, LuLu Solorzano, Deann Montgomery, Treyana Burris, Alysha Biemolt & Fabiola Rosiles
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Multicultural Greek Council “We’re Back..” By: Tomi Mick, President, Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc.
Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority Inc. at Illinois State University was formerly known as Zeta chapter. Our newest line, S.R.L. CeniZas are the second Phoenix line. Our colony was reactivated in Fall 2014 and we look forward to building upon our legacy and living above and beyond our principles of Academics, Community Service, Cultural Awareness, Social Interaction, and Morals and Ethics on campus and in the community. Please join us in welcoming the following women into our fraternal community:
Captain: Whitney "Llarahi" Bellido Deuce: Jocely " Zaira" Pacheco Tre: Selena "Yaila" Gonzalez Quad: Tiarra "Azaharia" Anderson Heart: Briana "Nalaia" Renteria Heart: Alicia "Saimara" Walker Seven: Selene "Kailani" Lagunas Eight: Sandra "Amahina" Lopez Chain: Griselda "Quetzalli" Quezada Chain: Sonia "Kaleela" Nava Anchor: Victoria "Zekyrah" Gardner Sigma Lambda Gamma is Latinabased, but we pride ourselves on continuing to build not only a multi-cultural sorority, but one that accepts all queer, non-binary, and female-identified people.
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College Panhellenic Council “A Note from CPC” By: 2015 College Panhellenic Council Executive Board
The College Panhellenic Council wants to welcome everyone back to the new semester! We have some exciting goals we want to share with ISU and the Greek Community. We are looking forward to developing closer relationships with chapters and other councils. One thing in particular that we are excited about is raising money for the College Panhellenic Council’s philanthropy: The Circle of Sisterhood. Circle of Sisterhood is a mechanism by which all sorority women can stand together across affiliation, age, color, and creed to make a difference in the lives of millions of girls and women around the world. Collectively, we are one of the largest communities of college -educated women in the world. Standing together as one community, we will give girls and women an equal chance for rewarding lives and livelihoods through schooling, the learning of a trade, or even a college degree. Check out the impact we have made thanks to sorority women across the world. Source: https://www.circleofsisterhood.org/our-impact/by-the-numbers/
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The Hall Grows Darker “The Hall Grows Darker” By: Alex Snowden, Coordinator, Fraternity & Sorority Life
In fraternity and sorority life, organizations are the life blood of a community. Visually speaking, communities are often times symbolized as a great hall. In this hall hangs the charters of each chapter and as the light shines it symbolizes that these recognized chapters hold the values and beliefs of the organizations not only in their hearts but also in their actions. As chapters will sometimes lose their way, the light begins to dim and the great hall will grow darker and the organization does not shine as bright as it once did. At Illinois State University we have had the pleasure to have our hall glow brighter and brighter through the past few years with new organizations, strong membership, and many members worthily wearing their badges. Unfortunately, even our great hall will sometimes dim as organizations lose recognition. It is with great sadness that I report that some chapters at Illinois State University have lost recognition with the university. Due to not meeting university minimum standards Iota Phi Theta, Omega Psi Phi, and Phi Beta Sigma, fraternities have lost recognition for the Spring 2015 academic semester. These organizations will have the opportunity to apply for recognition for Fall 2015. Pi Kappa Alpha has also lost recognition with the University for a minimum of three years for continued violation of the university Code of Conduct. Many would ask what does this mean for us? This means that although these members are still allowed to wear letters and be considered national members, they have ceased to be allowed to operate as student organizations of Illinois State University. In a basic sense all these members have been moved to alumni status. They cannot attend events, host events, or participate in any events collectively. Participation with members operating at what could be perceived as these organizations can cause your chapter to be placed under review with Student Conduct & Conflict Resolution and/or Fraternity and Sorority Life. This would also include if the organization changes its name to attempt to operate under another name. We ask that you as chapters and as individuals understand that closing an organization is never easy and although we cannot share all the details of the “why”, you understand it was not an easy decision. We hope that all these groups will one day return to Illinois State University stronger than ever and help our great hall shine brighter than it ever has before. This is only possible if the organization ceases operation so that they can return to campus as soon as feasibly allowed. For questions or concerns please contact Alex Snowden, Coordinator for Fraternity and Sorority Life, at adsnowd@ilstu.edu.
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February 2015 Sunday
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ΓΦΩ - Public
IFC Recruitment
Ceremony
IFC Recruitment
IFC Recruitment IFC Recruitment
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IFC Recruitment
ΔΣΘ Charter Day
ΑΓΔ - Broke Your Heart
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Charter Banquet
Saturday
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Women's NME
ΠΚΦ - Valentine's
ΔΧ - Jimmy V Week
Day Auction
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24 Men's NME
FSL Office Events
ΑΔΠ Lovestruck
University Events
6th—ACACIA Charter Banquet
9th—13th IFC Recruitment
Invite Only
17th—Women’s New Member Education (Greek 101)
8th—Public Ceremony Escalante Room 2pm—4 pm
All Fall 2014 & Spring 2015 New Members must attend
12—Delta Sigma Theta Charter Day
6:30 pm—Brown Ballroom 24th—Men’s New Member Education (Greek 101) All Fall 2014 & Spring 2015 New Members must attend 6:30 pm—Brown Ballroom
Council Events
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