Community Service at its Finest

Hi Everyone!!

Break is coming, and the tests are coming in. Our new members are not only doing awesome, but they are hightailing it in the classroom. Pi Chi is working even harder this year to do well academically, as well as community service wise.

I personally work as a notetaker and do various projects with Alpha Phi Omega. But I do most of my community service with my sorority. Some projects we have lined up for Pi Delta Chi are:

"Together Against Breast Cancer" on April 25th. That is the start of our Alumni Weekend, so we are looking forward to being with our Alumni, while helping raise funds for Breast Cancer. Pi Delta Chi has been working to get funding for Breast Cancer Research for almost 50 years, so we are very excited to show our alumni that we are as dedicated and hard working as they were for this very important cause.

Phi Sigma Sigma is having a clothing drive, so our sisters will be cleaning out their closests over break to help. I unfortunetly have already given my older clothes to a clothing drive, so I won't be much help with this one.

We are in the process of setting up another Breast Cancer Benefit Concert, where live bands will be playing and all proceeds will be going to Breast Cancer Research.

In between these big events, Pi Delta Chi participated in last Saturday's Heart Walk, and will be participating in Relay for Life this upcoming March. There are some projects set up for our sisters to help at Saturday's Bread, Pathfinder Village, Habitat for Humanity, and the YMCA.

Some smaller projects then that are:
Blogging, Notetaking, Being a Spend the Night Host, and Cleaning up Hiking Trails.

To take a break and have some fun, some of our sisters will be competing in Phi Sigma Sigma's talent show.

Good luck to everyone on their tests before break starts!!

Peace, Love

LC

Superbowl Sunday and Such

Today is the big game....

or so I'm told. I'm sorry to all the sport's fans out there, but I couldn't tell you who is in the game if my life depended on it. I'm more of a "player", than a "watcher". Unless I'm playing, or someone I know is playing, I could really care less about it. We are enjoying the game with Thusa. I believe this get-together is the first in a while between our sororities, which is kinda sad, but happy it's starting back up again.

Thusa being over 111 years old, and us approaching 50 years old, we seriously are an important piece of school history. It's pretty crazy to look back at pictures and notes of past sororities and fraternities we used to do stuff with, that are no longer around. My aunt went to this college and was part of the sorority Phi Gamma Gamma. (No they did not turn into Phi Sigma Sigma) They folded I believe back in the 70's or so. I can't remember at the moment.

More about the history of greek life on campus:

I really do think something must be done about the underground greek system. Is it just me that thinks that it's not good that the underground greeks not only have more organizations, but they tend to get a lot more girls/guys? For fraternities we only have:

Chi Phi
Phi Beta Sigma
Phi Kappa Psi

Unrecognized are:
ITK
Beta Chi
Sig Nu
ZSig
Sigma Alpha Mu
Sig Tau
TKE
AEPi

Sororities recognized are:

Pi Delta Chi
Sigma Gamma Phi (Thusa)
Phi Sigma Sigma
Sigma Sigma Sigma
MSU
CUS* (still seeking recognition)

Unrecognized are:

DST
AKPhi
LEPhi
Pi Phi Delta
Sigma Phi Delta
Sigma Iota Kappa*
Pi Phi Sigma*

* sororities with this marking states that they are organizations that were created by a group of girls very recently. They have no history with the school, and have taken traditions from actual sororities.

The rest had at one point been part of the school. When kicked off campus, they changed their letters:

DST used to be the old SDT

Pi Phi Delta was DPhiE

LEPhi was AEPhi

Sigma Phi Delta was Tri Delt

It's very disparaging to me as a recognized greek to see people turn to the underground greek system. I do think that if IGC changes the age requirement, allowing first semester freshmen to pledge, that recognized can have an extra boost to those that do not wish to wait until spring to pledge. I really feel that some of these organizations would come back if given the chance, and that would be good for all parties. These sororities and fraternities used to be part of recognized greek life, and it's just really sad that as each day passes, recognized greek life doesn't have these sororities and fraternities. I think my concern is not just the pledges and what they go through, but the loss of history these organizations gave Oneonta.

Peace, Love

LC