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Upcoming Events

MIT Alpha Chi Omega Alumnae Newsletter

Theta Omicron Chapter

Domestic Violence Awareness Week

This year we used posters to spread awareness about domestic violence. We also sold more than 3,070 carnations. A huge part of our ability to sell more carnations was through the website, dvaweek.com. Thank you to all of the alums who bought carnations!

Revelations November 9th Initiation

November 10th Fondue November 17th

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Personal Development Challenge

This semester, the Personal Development Chairs have made an exciting set of challenges to help the chapter personally develop. Sisters post pictures and a blurb about what they did. The first challenge was to try a new food. The second challenge was to take a picture at a tourist site. The third challenge is to introduce an AXO to your favorite hobby. The fourth challenge is to visit a new dorm or living group. The website is alltheadventures.tumblr.com and the password is seektheheights if you want to see pictures of sisters hanging out.

left to right : Caitlin Mackey ’15, Sophie Geoghan ’16 and Lauren

Wright ’16 at Mr. Bartleys.

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Top: Carnation tag for Tori Jensen ’16 Bottom: Carnation tag for Isabella Stupyte ‘16

Big/Little Pairings… …are done! The Saturday after DVA week, the mystagogue chairs matched the new members with their bigs. All of the new members also got carnations from their bigs. Inspiration Week starts November 4th.

This year, Kaitlyn Bailey ‘14 ran our AXO All-Chapter Act for Late Night. The theme of the show was America, and our individual theme was songs across America. Different sisters choreographed the songs. American Boy by Estelle was choreographed by Kai Liao ’14 and Patience Stevens ’16; California Girls by Katy Perry was choreographed by Sarah Sprague ’13 and Nathasha Rodriguez ’15; I’m in Miami by LMFAO was choreographed by Kaitlyn Bailey ’14; Waking Up in Vegas was choreographed in Charlotte Clark ’14 and Beth Garcia ’15; New York State of Mind by Alicia Keys was also choreographed by Kaitlyn Bailey ’14.

Late Night Act

Top: Ilana Habib ’15, Sarah Sprague ’13, Jess Haskins ’14 and Tori Jensen ‘16 Right: Caitlin Mackey ’15 Bottom Right: Kali Xu ’15 and Sarah Fay ‘15

Left: Isabella Stupyte ’16, Tori Jensen ’16; Bottom: Patience Stevens ’16, Jessica Andersen ’16, Sarah Wright ’16, Sophie Geoghan ’16, Lauren Wright ’16, Steph Riocci ’16 and Kathryn Buggs ’16, hanging out before Late Night started.

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New Executive Board Elected!

President: Morganne Klein ‘14 VP Finance: Rebecca Zhang ‘15 VP Ritual Appreciation: Caitlin Mackey ‘15 VP New Member Education: Ann Alampi ‘14 VP Membership Programming: Ilana Habib ‘14 Panhellenic Delegate: Hannah Barrett ‘15 VP Facility Operations: Abbey Bethel ‘14

VP CRS: Vicky Enjamio ‘14 VP Risk Manager: Kai Liao ‘14 VP Recruitment: Jess Haskins ‘14 VP Public Relations: Chelsea Finn ‘14 Panhellenic Delegate: Hannah Barrett ‘15 VP Intellectual Development: TBA VP Philanthropy: Jennifer Li ‘14

A new exec board structure has been adopted to reflect the wishes of Headquarters. We no longer have a VP Alumnae Relations, VP Fraternity Relations was broken up into VP Ritual and Fraternity Appreciation and VP Philanthropy, and the names of some of the positions have changed. A new VP ID will be elected during the Non-Exec elections.

Top Left: Kirsten Lim ’15 helping to tag carnations. Top Middle: Joyce Chen ’15, Beth Garcia ’15, Nathasha Rodriguez ’15 and Hannah

Barrett ’15 go to see The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Top Right: Isabella Stupyte ’16, Jess Haskins ’14, Vicky Enjamio ’14 and Morganne Klein ’14 weathering Hurricane Sandy. Bottom Left: Top to bottom: Katie Kauffman ’12, Becca Jackson ’13, Isabella Stupyte ’16, Paige Kennedy ’16 Rebecca Zhang ’15, Michelle Dion ’13, Andrea Gutierrez ’14, Amber Stangroom ’12; KK Wopat ’15, Caitlin Mackey ’15, Michelle Teplensky ’14, Sarah Fay ’15, Anna Christensen ’13 and Steph Fung ’13 at the Field Hockey Senior Game. Bottom Right: Alex Rigobon ’16, Tori Jensen ’16 and Ali Nikish ’16 try to lick their elbows after chapter.

Congratulations to all of our sisters who were elected to be on the new Exec Board.

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Help to Fund Fondue

Dear Alumna-- Your Theta Omicron sisters need your help! Every fall, Theta Omicron hosts "Fondue", a classy open-house event whose purpose is to create and foster relationships between Alpha Chis, faculty, administrators, and MIT students. The event is three hours-- the first is a "faculty hour", dedicated to AXOs, their professors, and the associated faculty/admin families. The final two hours of the event are the "open-house" in which the MIT student body (greek-affiliated and unaffiliated, e.g. everyone!) is welcome to come over, bond with their friends who are sisters, meet new sisters, and get a taste of what it means to be an Alpha Chi. Traditionally, five hundred MIT students attend the event and around thirty to forty faculty and their families. Due to changes in Weekends@MIT funding criteria, Fondue has had some unforeseen financial challenges! We need your help to make Fondue 2012 the successful event that we all hold near and dear to our hearts. We've slimmed the budget way down, but we're hoping we can fundraise $222 to help us cover chocolate costs. If you'd like to make a donation, please fill out this form for planning purposes (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG04ZUNnOUVkaTB3T2o1UnNkTlQxM0E6MQ) and mail a check made out to "Alpha Chi Omega-- Theta Omicron" to the AXO House (478 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA). LITB! Jean Fang (VP Membership Programming) On behalf of the Fondue Committee and Theta Omicron!