Alpha Phi Alpha – Alpha Tau ChapterThis semester has been going great for our fraternity. The last week of March was Alpha week and we focused on “Giving Back to the Community.” We went to the Boys and Girls Club and helped the kids with homework, activities, served them food, and helped clean up the facility. The kids enjoyed all of us and appreciated us taking time out of our day to help them out. We also had a food drive in the Student Union for “Harvest for Hunger.” We collected many canned foods and clothes. To end the week we had a huge breakfast at Golden Corral where many students, and Greek organizations all came out to celebrate another successful Alpha week.

Kappa Kappa GammaThe women of Kappa Kappa Gamma are having a phenomenal spring semester! We had a very successful spring recruitment and welcomed 5 lovely newly initiated members! We had a fitness social with the women of Alpha Gamma Delta, solved a mystery with the men of Phi Delta Theta and bowled some strikes with the men of Lambda Chi Alpha. Kappa also participated in the Up ‘Til, had a fiesta at the Polar Bear Jump wearing their Sombreros and mustaches and hosted a program about how girl on girl bullying affects everyone for Women’s History Month!

Our sisterhood has become even stronger this semester. We have had some amazing new experiences and have grown closer this semester through our sisterhoods, programs, and events. Our new members started a new tradition of Spaghetti Night once a week!

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Chapter Reports Many Kappas took a day trip to our headquarters in Columbus, where they met sisters from Ohio State University and toured one of our museums!

We are very sad to announce that eight of our sisters are becoming alumnae at the end of this semester and we are planning on making the last few weeks count! We have so many things we are looking forward to, like our philanthropy event, Spaghetti Dinner. Then we have Relay for Life, Sapphire Ball, Songfest, Senior Night, and our National Convention is coming up in June along with Kappa Kidney Camp! We hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the semester and a fun safe summer!

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Alpha PhiThe ladies of Alpha Phi had a very successful 7th Annual Red Dress Gala; we donated a total of $4,015 to The Alpha Phi Foundation in support of Women’s Heart Health. We would also like to thank everyone who helped support us. We greatly appreciate it! Have a great and safe summer.

Lambda Chi AlphaThe men of Lambda Chi Alpha are getting ready for our brotherhood week next week, ending with ritual and initiating 5 new associates on Saturday. We are also looking forward to our 40th annual Bath Tub Pull on April 15th, we really encourage every chapter to participate. All of the proceeds will go to the Akron Rotary Camp and The Humane Society.

Alpha Gamma Delta – Omega ChapterThe Sisters of Alpha Gamma Delta ended the month of February by hosting a Sisterhood weekend to cherish our friendships. A great overnight with movies and games concluded with breakfast in the morning! The sisters also enjoyed an Etiquette Dinner with the Men of Phi Gamma Delta and Bowling with the Men of Pi Kappa Epsilon (Lone Star) in the month of February. Alpha Gamma Delta’s sported their badge attire and AGD badges on March 5th in honor of National Panhellenic Council International Badge Day. Composite pictures were held on the fifth as well. The Omega sisters started the month of March strong by hosting Café A La Alpha Gam, a soup kitchen which will benefit Camp Quality. The sisters raised $1277.05 for this Songfest sponsored charity. The sisters attended the Greek Life Awards and were thrilled as Omega Chapter took home the Campus/Greek Involvement Award, Most Improved

Chapter Award and the Bronze Praestantia Award. In addition to our chapter awards, Melanie Salerno received the Chapter President of the Year Award, Hilary Ayers and Melanie Salerno were awarded the coveted Thomas J. Vukovich Awards. Many Alpha Gams received recognition for membership in Rho Lambda, Order of Omega and Gamma Sigma Alpha. The sisters celebrated their most cherished week of the semester, Initiation Week, the last week in March. The Omega Chapter welcomed six new sisters on March 30th. The week concluded with our Red Rose Formal at Guy’s Party Center. The entire chapter was thrilled at the outcome of Songfest.

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Phi Kappa Tau – Alpha Phi ChapterWe here at Phi Kappa Tau, have been having an excellent semester! We hope that all other Greek students have as well! This semester we have completed 136 total community service hours and look to add more with our participation in the Relay for Life event. We as a chapter have been doing our best to stay actively involved in many activities that are offered to us as a fraternity. We have participated in events such as socials, intramural sports, and other chapter’s philanthropy events. We at Phi Kappa Tau held our annual Volleyball Tournament that supports our philanthropy, Serious Fun Children’s Network! Thank you to all of the chapters that participated. We hope that all students remain positive this semester and finish on a high note as we head into summer!

Phi Sigma KappaThe Men at Phi Sigma Kappa have been a busy bunch. To go with our new Executive Board we have been working to better our fraternity by updating our policies on scholarship and risk management. We are really working towards recruiting the right quality of members, for which we now have six associates for the semester. I am proud to say we have been becoming a more active chapter, and are trying to participate in more things around campus as well as charity events. We had a blast at the polar jump to raise money for cancer, some of the brothers even painted themselves with our colors for the event. We hope to be holding our own fundraiser soon in order to raise money for our Philanthropy, The Special Olympics. We have been having a great time in intramurals, and cannot wait to play in some of the other Greek organization’s events. We had our Founder’s Day back in March, and it was a great time. A lot of the alumni who came gave us a lot of good advice as well as some stories of their favorite moments back in the day. During the weekend of the 21st a few members are going down to Ohio State to help rebuild the re-chartering chapter. Have a great summer. Go Greek!

Theta ChiThe men of Theta Chi Fraternity have had a very active spring semester. Our men strove to support many fellow Greek chapters’ philanthropy events including FIJI, Delta Gamma, Kappa Kappa Gamma and soon Phi Kappa Tau. We also greatly look forward to participating in Songfest as a combined act with the lovely women of Alpha Gamma Delta. On March 31st, Theta Chi hosted its Third Annual Ultimate Frisbee Tournament benefitting Toys for Tots and raised nearly $300 for a local Akron affiliate. With the hectic month of April in full swing, Theta Chi is still working hard to concentrate on academics while managing these many activities.

Before we depart for the summer, the brothers of Theta Chi will still manage to initiate five new members, celebrate its 156th birthday, and host its Red Carnation Ball and Annual Alumni Banquet. We would like to congratulate all of our newly elected officers for the up-coming academic year, especially our new President, Aaron Billow. Lastly, Theta Chi would like to congratulate and wish luck upon our two graduating seniors, Jeff Matheny and Rich Testani. We thank these brothers for their service and dedication and know they will succeed in all their endeavors. From the men of Theta Chi, thanks for a great year Greek Life and have a happy and safe summer!

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Delta Gamma – Eta ChapterThe Eta chapter of Delta Gamma has been having a busy semester. We have had many fundraisers including our Annual Spaghetti Dinner, Egg-A-Sig which was a co fundraiser with the men of Alpha Sigma Phi, our Ice Cream Social which was a huge success and Pie-A-DG is approaching quickly. We have also had many sisterhoods that have always ended with great laughs.

Our Founder’s Day was on March 3rd and was held at Fairlawn Country Club. We dined with many alumnae even two 50 year members. We also welcomed alumna from as far as Arizona to share that special day with us. Carol Miller Lewis received an award from the University of Akron called the Alumni Service Award and many collegiate members received awards too. Eta chapter will also be receiving the Patricia Peterson Danielson award from our fraternity. This award is presented to collegiate chapters that satisfy the award criteria which adhere closely to the Fraternity standards for collegiate chapters. This will be presented to us at our National Convention in June that we are very excited to be attending in Indianapolis, Indiana. This will be Delta Gamma’s 65th convention.

We would like to offer a special congratulations to Dr. Karla Mugler, The University of Akron’s Associate Vice President for the Integrated Student Experience for being slated for Delta Gamma Fraternity President for the 2012-2014 years by Delta Gamma Council, elections will be held this summer at convention.

Tau Kappa EpsilonOur chapter is going to be very busy this month with all of our upcoming events. On April 15th the Akron and Kent State TKE chapters are trying to break the world record for the longest telephone. Everybody is donating three dollars, and we are also selling t-shirts for twelve dollars. The goal is to get 2,000 people in the telephone. On April 20th we are contributing to the philanthropy Relay for Life. The entire chapter walks around the track to raise money. We also set up a booth to raise more money. We are going to sell food and have some kind of fun game. Finally, on April 27th we are participating in Walk a Mile in her shoes. This is the international men’s march to stop rape, sexual assault, and gender violence. Each member of our chapter is going to walk a mile in high heels. Every member is going to try to get people to sponsor them for the walk. Our chapter’s goal is to raise $4,000.

Phi Gamma Delta – Alpha OmicronIt’s hard to believe that the semester is coming to an end so quickly, but it has been an excellent semester for the men of FIJI. The brothers of the Alpha Omicron chapter of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) hope everyone has had a wonderful semester thus far. FIJI is very thankful

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to all those that participated in our 10th Annual FIJI Dodgeball Tournament. With your help, and the help from many others, we raised $1,100 towards the Akron Children’s Hospital. The men of FIJI have been busy helping the community in a lot of ways including: Akron Canton Food Bank, American Red Cross, Nazareth Housing, and Habitat for Humanity. The FIJI family is always growing and looking for new ways to improve our relationship with the community. We hope that everyone has had a productive semester as we’ve had, and wish everyone the best of luck on the rest of the semester and their finals.

Sigma Nu – Kappa Lambda ChapterThe men of Sigma Nu recently participated in a philanthropy event at the Turner’s Club a couple miles off campus. They spent four hours cleaning out the freezer and doing other various jobs around the building, such as cleaning windows, kitchen supplies, and making a clean sweep of the dining area. It was a very successful philanthropy event and a great chance for the brothers of Sigma Nu to give back to the Akron Community.

Sigma Nu will also be participating in Volleyball Marathon at Mount Union on April 21st, which is the philanthropy event for the SAE chapter there. It will be a great day to meet chapters from another University and have a nice day of volleyball, all you can eat food, and brotherhood along with helping out a good cause.

The men of Sigma Nu are also currently preparing for initiation at the end of this month and will be proudly knighting three more men into the Kappa Lambda Chapter of the Sigma Nu Fraternity. In addition, they are also wrapping up Relay for Life activities and MS Walk plans for later in April as well. Sigma Nu wishes the rest of the Greek Life Chapters here at Akron a great rest of the semester.

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Alpha Delta PiCurrently, we are just weeks away from our annual Lion Share Event; we have always done a bowling tournament in the past, and decided to try a new sport this year. We hosted a glow-in-the-dark kickball tournament on April 13, 2012 on The University of Akron campus. We had a great time with fellow Greek community members, friends, and family. All donations will go towards our national philanthropy, The Ronald McDonald House. The goal for the event is that it will help us meet our goal of raising $10,000 dollars and performing 11,000 hours of community service during the 2011-2012 school year.

In April, along with our Lion Share Tournament, we are planning on having several sisterhood events and socials with other Greek chapters on campus. One event that Alpha Delta Pi very excited about is our Black Diamond Formal, which will be held on April 21st. Our formal will be focused on reflecting on all the great times we had as a chapter and looking forward to the future as women of Alpha Delta Pi.

The sisters of Alpha Delta Pi would like to take the time to wish the rest of the Greek community and University of Akron students the best of luck as the semester comes to an end. We would also like to extend a special wish of luck to all seniors with finals, graduation, and beyond – you all will be missed.

Alpha Kappa Alpha – Delta Pi ChapterThe ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc the Delta Pi Chapter have achieved greatness this semester. We recently attended the Greek Leadership Awards and won the following; Most Improved GPA, Scholastic Achievement, and Chapter Academic Excellence with a 3.77 GPA. We also received the Bronze award for Sorority of Excellence.

We will be celebrating the spring graduation of Brittani Davis with a BA in Psychology. When asked her plans post graduation she stated, “Once I graduate I plan to further my education in order to utilize art therapy as my medium for reaching out to children and teens. I also want to develop workshops for girls and women to promote self-esteem and empowerment”.

We continue to celebrate the accomplishments of Delta Pi with Danielle Thomas. She was accepted into the College of Pharmacy at North East Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) and will be attending in the fall!

The Delta Pi Chapter will be celebrating 51 years of service during our SKEE WEEK which begins April 9th-April 15th and we have a lot of events planned beginning April 9th with our “Date a Pearl” event at 7:08pm in the Theater. April 10th “Know Your Worth” is a workshop for women at 7:08 in room 335. Then April 11th “Change for Change: Minority Health Report” at 6:08 in room 308 and April 12th “Make Sen$e” at 7:08 in room 335. These should all be very informative and fun events!

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Panhellenic Council – Senior Sister of the WeekFor the week of February 29th, the Senior Sister of the Week was Amy Schneider from Delta Gamma. Amy is the past Director of New Member and the current Vice President of Member Education for Delta Gamma. Amy implements all of Delta Gammas values, specifically the value of social responsibility, which is shown by her willingness to always help others. With her enthusiasm and wit she has accomplished a lot in her 3 years in Delta Gamma.

For the week of March 21st, the Senior Sister of the Week was Katie Jo Kisow. Katie has served as Panhellenic Delegate and New Member educator for Kappa Kappa Gamma. She has helped to promote unity within her chapter among members and created a wonderful support system for Kappa’s new members as they transition into Greek life. She also embodies every aspect of a sister. Furthermore, Katie Jo is very involved with the Public Relations Student Society of America.

The most recent Senior Sister of the Week for April 5th is Melanie Stopar in Alpha Phi. Melanie has been Director of Formal Recruitment, Social Chair, and is currently the Panhellenic Delegate. She is a caring and sweet sister and would do anything to help someone in need. Moreover, Melanie is constantly encouraging Greek unity!

Congratulations Amy, Katie, and Melanie!

Office UpdatesCongratulations to all of the accomplishments in our Greek community this semester! Working together, we raised $6,000 for Camp Quality Ohio as our Annual Songfest Philanthropy – this amount is well above our goal of $5,000. Thank you for your hard fundraising work, the children are truly going to appreciate it.

We would like to thank all of the chapters for their

participation in Songfest 2012: Billboard Hits by the Zips! The show went very well and each act was great. Congratulations to the winners of the show:

Best Banner: Phi Delta Theta Best Props: Phi Delta ThetaBest Vocals: Alpha Delta Pi Best Choreography: Lambda Chi AlphaMost Alumnae: Alpha Gamma DeltaBest Solo Fraternity: Lambda Chi AlphaBest Solo Sorority: Delta GammaThird Place Fraternity: Lambda Chi AlphaThird Place Sorority: Alpha Gamma DeltaSecond Place Fraternity: Phi Gamma DeltaSecond Place Sorority: Delta GammaFirst Place Fraternity: Phi Delta ThetaFirst Place Sorority: Alpha Delta PiFirst Place Combined Act: Theta Chi and Alpha Gamma Delta

We are excited to be expanding our office by hiring another Greek Life Student Assistant and welcoming our new Graduate Assistant, Abby Duncan from Winthrop University. However, we would like to thank Sarah Noble, the current Graduate Assistant, for all of her hard work and contributions to the Greek community over the past year. Sarah will be starting her internship in Youngstown, Ohio to finish her Master’s in Community Counseling and will be graduating in December. We wish you the best of luck and you will be missed!

Finally, we would like to wish all of the Greek members the best of luck with their finals; finish strong! Have a safe summer and we look forward to seeing you back in the fall for another great Greek year!