Illinois State University Fraternity & Sorority Life October 2014
“Emerging Greek Leaders” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant Fraternity/Sorority Life
Inside this issue: Social Media Snapshot
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NPHC
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MGC
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IFC
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CPC & Extension
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Calendar
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Contact Us: On October 10th and 11th, Fraternity and Sorority Life facilitated an Emerging Greek Leaders Retreat at Lake Williamson in Carlinville, IL. 31 members of the fraternal community were hand picked to represent their individual organizations and encouraged to take ownership in their experiences as Fraternity/Sorority Members. The overnight retreat focused on community building, defining leadership, and creating an action plan for change.
Fraternity and Sorority Life (309)-438-2151 Alex Snowden– Coordinator adsnowd@ilstu.edu Alanna Hill– Senior Specialist ahill4@ilstu.edu Ron Burse– Graduate Assistant vpsartburse@exchange.ilstu.edu Yesenia Garcia– Graduate Assistant vpsaygarcia@exchange.ilstu.edu
Stay Connected The retreat included workshops on discovering their roles as young leaders in the community, understanding different leadership styles and educating their chapters on their experiences at this retreat. Students built connections through recreational activities, a campfire social, and competitive games and activities.
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Snapshot on Social Media “Living Values Congruent” By: Adrian Fait, CPC President On Monday October 20th, approximately 2,000 members of the Greek community attended a Values Congruence Presentation put on by the College Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council. The four pillars of Academics, Leadership, Brotherhood/Sisterhood, and Community Service & Philanthropy served as main topics, with council members elaborating on each. It served as a reminder to many Greek members of the values our organizations are based off of, and though sometimes it is easy to get caught up on different aspects of life, they should always return to their values. A powerful piece by Darien Jacobs spoke of earning your badge everyday through actions and words. This is an important lesson because every member is a reflection of their organization and should act as such. “I really enjoyed the presentation, especially the part about being leader that people would follow, even without a position.“
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National Pan-Hellenic Council “Sigma’s Think Pink” By: Yesenia Garcia, GA FSL The brothers of Phi Beta Sigma, Fraternity Inc. teamed up with S.A.S.S.I. (Sisterhood, Academic Excellence, Service, Social Involvement, Influence) to host Pink Playground on October 23rd in the Bone Student Center Circus Room. The event was centered around Breast Cancer Awareness and provided educational games, food and fun to all attendees. The event also honored one of the many brave women who has fought and survived the battle against breast cancer, Ms. Valerie Marshall.
“Give Thanks” By: William Carey, President Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc. will be participating nationally in the St. Jude Give Thanks Walk taking place nationally November 22nd in 65 separate locations.
MGC Takes A Stand
Iota Phi Theta is a silver level partner with St. Jude and supports them nationally ever year. Our fraternity is committed to create awareness and raise funds to help St. Jude Children's Research Hospital continue its mission of finding cures that save lives. Your support and donations can be made to the Alpha Rho Chapter here at Illinois State.
“We’re A Culture, Not A Costume” By: Alanna Hill, Senior Specialist, FSL Multicultural Greek Council presented the program “We’re a culture not a costume” on October 29th to ISU students with the clear message: "This is not who I am, and this is not okay." MGC educated attendees about culturally insensitive costumes by having members wear examples of these costumes and then facilitate a discussion on why these costumes perpetuate negative stereotypes. In the end, the purpose to educate and create dialogue was successful.
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Multicultural Greek Council “MGC Showcase” By: LuLu Solorzano, MGC President
“Service First” By: Ana Ruiz, President Alpha Psi Lambda
The Multicultural Greek Council (MGC) at Illinois State University serves as a governing body that seeks to maintain high standards in the life of culturally-based Fraternities and Sororities by addressing coordinating and developing strategic programming.
Alpha Psi Lambda members cleaned up the state highway they adopted in 2010.
The MGC would like to cordially invite all to attend the 2nd Annual MGC Showcase! Featuring Alpha Psi Lambda, Delta Phi Lambda, Gamma Phi Omega, Sigma Lambda Beta and This tradition involves the members to giving up a Sunday morning to give back Sigma Lambda Gamma! to the community and environment. Free Admission!
“Dia De Los Muertos”
“What Latino Means to Me”
By: LuLu Solorzano, MGC President
By: Ana L. Ruiz, President Alpha Psi Lambda Join UPB, Association of Latin American Students (ALAS), and Gamma Phi Omega International Sorority Inc. in celebrating Mexico's largest holiday: Dia de los Muertos! Learn what Dia De Los Muertos is, where it came from, and why it is celebrated in the Latino culture.
The event will have sugar skull face painting and other related festivities. There is no better way to end the Halloween weekend than by becoming culturally aware of this Latino celebration! Free event!
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15th to October 15th. This date range encompasses various independence days celebrated by Spanish speaking countries. The membership of Alpha Psi Lambda hosted an event to create a dialogue about what it means to be Latino. Participants got the chance to express what Latino means to them. The results shed light on different perspectives and opinions on what they think when they hear the word “Latino”. It also showed that there are a lot of people who are not well educated on what Latino culture is.
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Interfraternity Council “Fight Like Mike” By: Ehtan, Lesher, Philanthropy Chair, Alpha Tau Omega
The Alpha Tau Omega Sweetheart Challenge is a six day fall philanthropy event that took place on October 6th-11th. A total of $6,300 was raised during this event and all of it will be donated to Mike Kasallis, an ATO brother recently diagnosed with Leukemia, and the Chicago Children’s Memorial Hospital. This year the lovely ladies of Alpha Gamma Delta were crowned as winners of the philanthropy and Melissa Moscinski, an AGD sister was named this year’s ATO sweetheart.
On September 18th, 2014 the men of Pi Kappa Phi co-sponsored an event along with the men of Pi Kappa Alpha and the women of Chi Omega to help By: Nick Birlingmair, President Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity support a brother in need. This past summer, a member of the local Pi Kappa Alpha chapter experienced major health problems that left his family with a list of medical bills. In an attempt to help his family along with bringing together the Greek community, Pi Kappa Phi held a barbecue in his name to help raise money for his family.
“Grillin’ For The Gammonley’s”
All together, the Greek community raised over $4,500 along with online donations from alumni and friends.
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College Panhellenic Council “Service in Nicaragua” By: Katie Taylor, Senior Alpha Gamma Delta At the end of my first year as an ISU student and a member Alpha Gamma Delta, I attended a service trip to Nicaragua with a small group of women from my chapter. The members that went on the trip ranged from freshman like myself to seniors who had just graduated. We participated in the trip through the organization Amigos for Christ, a nonprofit organization that facilitates water, health, education, and economic development in rural Nicaraguan communities. We spent our time there building clean water systems that deliver water to each family's home, as many rural families lack access to clean water. I knew that I wanted to return to Nicaragua before I even left. During my junior year while I was serving as Community Service Chair, I decided to plan a return trip with a new group of women from our chapter. Five members of Alpha Gamma Delta traveled to Nicaragua this past May. Interest in the trip has grown in Alpha Gamma Delta and I am in the process of planning a third trip for this May. I cannot think of a better way to spend the end of my college experience.
“Labyrinth Outreach Services” By: Bailey Curtis, Chi Omega On Saturday September 27th Chi Omega and Sigma Chi volunteered their afternoon at Labyrinth Outreach Services for Women in Bloomington. Labyrinth is an outreach program for women that have been formerly incarcerated and need extra assistance to develop emotional and economic stability. The women and men of Chi Omega and Sigma Chi helped clean up their transitional housing units.
They did everything from painting doors and walls, landscaping outside, moving furniture, and repairing any damage to electrical or structural work that needed to be done in the homes. The agency was very thankful for all the work our Greek community put into their homes and hopes to have us back real soon.
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College Panhellenic Council A Q&A about the NEW sorority on campus By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant for Fraternity/Sorority Life
The College Panhellenic Council and Fraternity Sorority Life have been a buzz with the arrival of a new sorority on campus! I set out to do a Q& A with Alex Snowden, Coordinator for FSL, to help inform the campus community on the latest about the sorority extension process. What is extension?
When will they come to campus?
Extension is addition of new Panhellenic sororities. With the overwhelming growth and surge of interest in fraternities and sororities, extension will help to alleviate the size of current organizations and allow women to form a new organization that can hopefully fit a niche that the current organizations may not be filling.
The first sorority will come to campus one week following formal Panhellenic recruitment in Fall 2015. The organization will have minor interaction prior to this but that is when they will officially start recruiting. If a second is chosen, and this is up to the Panhellenic to decide, then they will come no earlier than Fall 2017 if minimum agreed upon standards are met.
When is the last time we added a new Panhellenic sorority?
Why haven’t we had interest groups form new sororities until now?
Panhellenic has not done a formal extension process that we can find in our records and history. It seems the last few organizations had been formed by interested members of the university who chose to form these organizations into who they are today. The last sorority of Panhellenic to have joined our community was Sigma Delta Tau in 1993 but left the campus in 1999. Other organizations include Kappa Delta and Alpha Phi.
Under Panhellenic rules it is a lot harder and a formalized process to start organizations. Due to these rules the College Panhellenic Council has to vote to extend to new groups. Until recently they have not allowed this growth to occur because it was felt that the campus and organizations weren’t ready. With the large growth facing them today, they are happy to be bringing on a new sorority or two to our community.
The next step is the organizations present to p on November 6-7. The extension e st y? campus committee will then meet to give a recl a rit n ommendation to the Panhellenic on offers fi oro and regrets of who will e join our community and h as t when. The proposal will be submitted to Panhelis ng t lenic and a final vote will take place November 19. ha osi We plan to announce the accepted sorority in the W ho c next columns so stay tuned. in
Who will it be? The finalists are: Alpha Omicron Pi and Delta Gamma
These two finalists were part of other groups who submitted packets to extend to campus and join our community. A committee of women were selected from each Panhellenic chapter and met to decide which they felt would potentially be good fits for campus and will help the community grow and develop.
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MGC Showcase
ACACIA Chartering Celebration
CPC Scholarship Reception
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IFC Elections
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FSL Office Events 6– Delta Gamma Presentation @ 6 pm CVA 151
All Presidents must meet with council advisor in November. Developmental Review is due at this meeting.
21st—End of Year Report due to council advisor
7—Alpha Omicron Pi Presentation @ 6 pm CVA 151
University Events Fall Break 11/22/ - 12/1
Want to be featured? Please email a headline, article, and picture to: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant for Fraternity/Sorority Life at vpsaygarcia@exchange.ilstu.edu
Council Events 13– MGC Showcase 7 pm Bone Student Center 14– ACACIA Chartering Celebration 15—CPC Scholarship Reception 3pm Starplex Cinema
20—IFC Elections CPC—Hockey Sisterhood 7 pm