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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 Page 2
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”
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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 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.
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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 Page 5
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
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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
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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
14
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
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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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