October 2014 columns

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 lead-

ership, and creating an action plan

for change.

“Emerging Greek Leaders” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant Fraternity/Sorority Life

I l l i n o i s S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y F r a t e r n i t y & S o r o r i t y L i f e

Inside this issue:

Social Media Snapshot 2

NPHC 3

MGC 4

IFC 5

CPC & Extension 6/7

Calendar 8

October 2014

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The retreat included workshops on discovering their

roles as young leaders in the community, understand-

ing different leadership styles and educating their chap-

ters on their experiences at this retreat. Students built

connections through recreational activities, a campfire

social, and competitive games and activities.

Snapshot on Social Media

On Monday October 20th, approximately 2,000

members of the Greek community attended a Val-

ues Congruence Presentation put on by the Col-

lege Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity

Council.

The four pillars of Academics, Leadership,

Brotherhood/Sisterhood, and Community Service & Philanthro-

py served as main topics, with council members elaborating on

each.

It served as a reminder to many Greek members of the values our or-

ganizations 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, especial-

ly the part about being leader that people

would follow, even without a position.“

“Living Values Congruent” By: Adrian Fait, CPC President

So how far did their message carry?

We analyzed the official presentation

hashtag #ISUValues to take a closer look.

Tweetreach Snapshot for #ISUValues

“Join Us”

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 In-

volvement, 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 edu-

cational 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.

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.

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 mis-

sion of finding cures that save lives. Your support and donations can be

made to the Alpha Rho Chapter here at Illinois State.

“Give Thanks” By: William Carey, President Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc

MGC Takes A Stand

“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 mes-

sage: "This is not who I am, and this is not okay." MGC educated at-

tendees 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.

Multicultural Greek Council

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 Fraterni-

ties and Sororities by addressing

coordinating and developing strate-

gic programming.

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

Sigma Lambda Gamma!

Free Admission!

“MGC Showcase” By: LuLu Solorzano, MGC President

Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September

15th to October 15th. This date range encompasses vari-

ous independence days celebrated by Spanish speaking

countries.

The membership of Al-

pha Psi Lambda host-

ed 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 per-

spectives 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.

Alpha Psi

Lambda

members

cleaned

up the

state high-

way they

adopted in

2010.

This tradition involves the members to

giving up a Sunday morning to give back

to the community and environment.

“Service First” By: Ana Ruiz, President Alpha Psi Lambda

“What Latino Means to Me” By: Ana L. Ruiz, President Alpha Psi Lambda

Join UPB, Association of Lat-in 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 paint-ing and other related festivi-ties. There is no better way

to end the Halloween weekend than by becoming culturally aware of this Latino celebration! Free event!

“Dia De Los Muertos” By: LuLu Solorzano, MGC President

Interfraternity Council

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

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.

All together, the Greek community raised

over $4,500 along with online donations

from alumni and friends.

“Fight Like Mike” By: Ehtan, Lesher, Philanthropy Chair, Alpha Tau Omega

The Alpha Tau Omega Sweet-

heart Challenge is a six day fall

philanthropy event that took

place on October 6th-11th.

A total of $6,300 was raised dur-

ing 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.

“Grillin’ For The Gammonley’s” By: Nick Birlingmair, President Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity

College Panhellenic Council

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 organiza-

tion Amigos for Christ, a nonprofit organization

that facilitates water, health, education, and eco-

nomic development in rural Nicaraguan communi-

ties.

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.

“Service in Nicaragua” By: Katie Taylor, Senior Alpha Gamma Delta

On Saturday September 27th Chi Omega and Sigma Chi

volunteered their afternoon at Labyrinth Outreach Ser-

vices for Women in Bloomington. Labyrinth is an outreach

program for women that have been formerly incarcerated

and need extra assistance to develop emotional and eco-

nomic 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 need-

ed 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.

“Labyrinth Outreach Services” By: Bailey Curtis, Chi Omega

A Q&A about the NEW sorority on campus By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant for Fraternity/Sorority Life

College Panhellenic Council

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 com-

munity on the latest about the sorority extension process.

Who will it be?

What is extension?

Extension is addition of new Panhellenic sororities. With the over-whelming growth and surge of inter-est in fraternities and sororities, ex-tension 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 fill-ing.

When is the last time we added a new Panhellenic sorority?

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 Sig-ma Delta Tau in 1993 but left the cam-pus in 1999. Other organizations in-clude Kappa Delta and Alpha Phi.

Why haven’t we had interest groups form new sororities until

now?

Under Panhellenic rules it is a lot hard-er and a formalized process to start or-ganizations. Due to these rules the Col-lege 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 cam-pus and organizations weren’t ready. With the large growth facing them to-day, they are happy to be bringing on a new sorority or two to our community.

The finalists are:

Alpha Omicron Pi and Delta Gamma

These two finalists were part of oth-er 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.

When will they come to campus?

The first sorority will come to campus one week following formal Panhellenic recruitment in Fall 2015. The organiza-tion will have minor interaction prior to this but that is when they will offi-cially start recruiting. If a second is chosen, and this is up to the Panhel-lenic to decide, then they will come no earlier than Fall 2017 if minimum agreed upon standards are met.

The next step is the organizations present to campus on November 6-7. The extension

committee will then meet to give a rec-ommendation to the Panhellenic on offers

and regrets of who will join our community and when. The proposal will be submitted to Panhel-

lenic and a final vote will take place November 19.

We plan to announce the accepted sorority in the next columns so stay tuned.

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Extension

Presentation

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Presentation

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9 10 11 12 13

MGC Showcase

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ACACIA

Chartering

Celebration

15

CPC Scholarship

Reception

16 17 18 19 20

CPC Sisterhood

IFC Elections

21

End of Year

Report Due

22

Fall Break

23/30

Fall Break

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Fall Break

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Fall Break

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Fall Break

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Fall Break

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Fall Break

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Fall Break

November 2014 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Deadlines

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

FSL Office Events

6– Delta Gamma Presentation @ 6 pm CVA 151

7—Alpha Omicron Pi Presentation @ 6 pm CVA 151

University Events

Fall Break 11/22/ - 12/1

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

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