April Showers Bring May Flowers

Hello everyone!!

First off congrats to our two new members Emily Stevens and Nicole Tapia!!!!!

Yesterday was the start of Greek Week. I was part of the kickball team. I was proud of myself to getting home, since it's been YEARS since I've played kickball and dodgeball. I used to be extremely good at dodgeball...but at my high school any hit goes...and I'm used to aiming for the head, so I didn't play in case I got carried away.

Tonight is the water events part...I don't know how I feel about wearing a bathing suit in front of mostly all of greek life...it's a bit creepy to me, but if they need people to swim...I'll help.

While yesterday was warm and beautiful...today is cold and rainy. Hopefully it won't last too long! I'm ready for warmth and sunshine :) Especially for Graduation Day.

Peace, Love

LC

Greek Life

Last weekend we welcomed two new sisters to our sorority!! Congrats to Lauren Amedeo and Ilana Horowitz!!!

We have also started a split class, our two new members are Emily Stevens and Nicole Tapia :)

Also, The Greek Olympics is starting up! It's one of my favorite things about greek life. For a week, there are different games or other events all of greek life takes part in against each other. If you would like to watch here is the schedule:

Greek Week Schedule

April 19 - 3-5 alumni- games
April 20 - 8-10pm- chase- water events
April 21- 530- track and field, 7 o'clock is the tailgating party
April 22 - Greek awards dinner at 7, look nice
April 23- 8pm. in front of the library- "take back night"
April 24th- 4 30 winners announcement in Quad
April 29nth- meet the Greeks from 2-6

Everyone is very busy with last minute tests and papers before we head on home for break. Take care and good luck!

Peace, Love

LC

Busy Bees

Hello Everyone,

I don't know about the rest of you, but my sorority and I have been extremely busy.

Last Friday was Relay for Life. I helped out with registering people, before having to leave to see off friends. Our one sister Alex screenprinted our letters on the backs of our Relay shirts, so we could show support for the cause, as well as show people who we are.

That Saturday was also a dance party we attended for IGC, Phi Beta Sigma DJ'ed. It was definitely interesting to hear songs that I haven't heard since middle and high school. Overall, it was a good time.

Tuesday was St. Patty's Day...need I say more? I hope everyone had a great day that day.

In between these events, we had many quizzes and tests to study for.

Our Alumni Weekend is coming up, so we've been preparing for that great weekend. I was extremely excited, because I was at Walmart last week and I met an older sister who graduated in 1977! We've had a lot of trouble contacting older sisters from the 60's and 70's, so this is a huge breakthrough. Earlier in the year I sent out a message in our Oneonta Reflections and received emails from our Founding Sisters. It's just incredible being able to talk to these women. As a personal project, I've been recopying down our family lines, so all sisters can see who is connected to what family. I was able to trace them all the way up to 1980, so we are missing 20 years of history of our sorority. I'm really hoping to be able to trace the lines back up to our founding sisters. This project has taken me over 3 years now.

March 28th is Open House! Come visit our Pi Chi table!!

Peace, Love

LC

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

New Members and Bid Day

This Past Friday was Greek Life's offical Bid Day.

This day is when all of Greek Life comes out to give props to each other for finding new members who believe that they have found the sorority/fraternity that fits them best. All new members are brought out for all to see, and that sorority/fraternity usually gives the new members gifts (balloons, gift bags, flowers, etc.) and picks a song to sing for them. Bid Day is always a great happy day.

We have two girls that are absolutely AMAZING. As one of the New Member Educators, I am extremely excited to be there for our new members and teach them about the sorority they have chosen.

Good Luck to all New Member Educators and New Members!!

Peace, Love

LC

Spring 09 Recruitment

Hello all!!!

I hope everyone had a great break :) It's that time of year again for recruitment!! We've already had Meet the Greeks.

This Saturday 1/17/09 is Round Robins, so all who are interested in alone time with each sorority/fraternity to see who you fit in best with. That is being held at 2pm up at Hunt Union. You will fill out your information for the IGC and as a group, you will meet with each sorority.

Tuesday 1/20/09 is Philanthropy Night. If you are interested more in any sorority/fraternity's philanthropy, then this is the night for you. It is being held up at Hunt at 10pm.

Wednesday 1/21/09 is our Preference Parties. This is the night where you go to which sorority/fraternity that you wish to become a new member for. Your particular sorority/fraternity's room will be posted and you will meet them in that room up at Hunt at 8pm. Then if you recieve a bid, you must pick it up at the IGC office up at Hunt Union before Friday 1/23/09 where at 4pm our bid day ceremony will be held.

Be safe and have fun everyone

Peace, Love

LC