January 2015 columns

“ACACIA Fraternity Dominates Grades” 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:

2015 Leaders 2

IFC 4

MGC 6

CPC 8

The Hall Grows Darker 9

Calendar 10

January 2015

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“Fall 2014 In The Books” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant, Fraternity & Sorority Life

Fall 2014 Stats

3.40 ACACIA GPA

3.01 All Greek GPA

3.15 All Sorority GPA

2.79 All Fraternity

GPA

Fraternity Service

Hours Provided

Sorority Service

Hours Provided

2,668 5,229

7,897 All Greek Community

Service Hours

Fraternity Dollars

Donated to Charity Sorority Dollars

Donated to Charity

All Greek Dollars

Donated to Charity

$50,906

$30,886 $20,020

2.80 All ISU Men’s

Undergrad GPA

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“All Council Retreat” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant, Fraternity & Sorority Life

On January 9th and 10th the Executive Boards of all

governing councils attended a leadership retreat put

on by Fraternity and Sorority Life at Lake Williamson

in Carlinville, Illinois. Both newly elected and veteran

council leaders benefited by learning event

management skills, programming best practices, time

management skills, and goal setting workshops.

Conversations were framed around the state of the FSL Community and ways

to improve and thrive. Each council educated one another on the

importance of their governing body as

well as ways they would like to see

collaboration. One of their favorite

leadership activities involved looking to

no one other than each other for the

support they needed. After some

friendly competition and collaboration,

all councils were ready to take charge of

their roles in the community and began

their semester off stronger than ever.

“President’s Retreat” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant, Fraternity & Sorority Life

On January 11th, Fraternity and Sorority

Presidents attended a retreat designed to

effectively train them on communication,

managing different leadership styles and

time management. The presidents were

also trained on the new FSL Accreditation

that will ensure that all organizations get

recognized for their hard work in the areas

of Academic Achievement, Risk Prevention,

Community Engagement, Membership

Development and Chapter Management.

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Let The Games Begin

Redbird Athletics and Fraternity &

Sorority Life have created a

partnership to engage members of

the fraternal community.

Members are invited to create a banner

that will hang in Redbird Arena

starting February 13th, incorporation of

individual organization’s Greek Letters

is encouraged. Banners must be

supportive of the ISU Redbirds and

contain no negative statements about

any other schools. Organizations have

been given the official memo with

rules, dimension guidelines and best

practices.

“The Greek Game” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant, Fraternity & Sorority Life

Banners must be submitted by

Wednesday, February 11th to FSL

in SSB 387.

Saturday, February 14th

organizations are invited to rally

the Redbirds against Wichita

State at 5 pm. The game will also

be televised on ESPN 2.

There will be a special “check in”

section for all affiliated members

at the south concourse.

Redbird Athletics and FSL will determine a

winner by 3 categories:

Banner Design

Number of Attendees

Percentage of Organization that attended.

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Interfraternity Council

The Interfraternity

Council would

formally like to

welcome

Alpha Phi Alpha

Fraternity, Inc.

and

Kappa Alpha Psi

Fraternity, Inc.

to our council

“IFC Selects Council Philanthropy” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant, Fraternity & Sorority Life

SAVE THE DATE:

The Interfraternity Council will be

hosting a philanthropy event on

Saturday, May 2nd benefiting the Fish-

er House Foundation.

“Fisher House Foundation is best

known for a network of comfort homes

where military and veterans’ families

can stay at no cost while a loved one is

receiving treatment.”

These homes are located at major military and VA medical centers nationwide. Fami-

lies that stay in Fisher House can be close to their loved ones to ensure that their

veterans are getting the proper support they need to heal. Fisher House Foundation

ensures that there is never a lodging fee.

Fisher House Foundation also operates the Hero Miles program, using donated fre-

quent flyer miles to bring family members to the bedside of injured service members

as well as the Hotels for Heroes program using donated hotel points to allow family

members to stay at hotels near medical centers without charge.

The closest Fisher House is just 2 hours away, near

the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital

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Interfraternity Council

“Phresh” Start By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant Fraternity & Sorority Life

In their first week with membership to IFC, Alpha’s

entire chapter attended the IFC General Body meeting

and supported brother Adam Wright, whom is now

serving on the IFC Executive Board as Vice President of

Public Affairs.

Alpha Phi Alpha continued their strong start to the

spring semester by serving and advocate for the local

community by hosting a coat drive in the Bone Student

Center focused on providing warm clothing to those in

need.

The Alphas will be hosting another Coat Drive event

Monday, February 16, 2015 from 11—2 in the

Bone Student Center. Come Donate and Support!

The Eta Tau chapter of

Alpha Phi Alpha

Fraternity, Inc. has

recently joined the

Interfraternity Council

and has made it very

clear that they are com-

mitted to making this

new opportunity a useful

one to promote the mis-

sion and vision of their

organization.

Pictured from left to right:

Jaylon Joyner, Stephen McKinstry, Daryl

Langston, Wendall Lytle, & Kadeem Kamal.

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Multicultural Greek Council

“The Newest Swans” By: Rebecca Schwartz, Gamma Phi Omega

Gamma Phi Omega would like to introduce our newest mem-

bers. Beta Line, 3 STYLAR crossed on December 1, 2014.

Gamma Phi Omega will be officially introducing

3 STYLAR to the campus community on

Sunday, February 8, 2015 at 2pm at their

Public Ceremony in the Escalante Room.

(From left to right):

Captain: Rebecca “OrIana” Schwartz,

Deuce: Carol “JaiRA” Martinez,

Anchor: Elizabeth “NatIsa” Nunez

The Multicultural

Greek Council took

Indianapolis by storm by

attending the yearly conference put on by the

Association of Fraternal Leadership & Values.

The MGC executive board also welcomed two

representatives from Delta Sigma Theta

Sorority, Inc. whom have recently joined the

council.

(From left to right):

Gabby Hohn, LuLu Solorzano, Deann Montgomery, Treyana Burris, Alysha Biemolt & Fabiola Rosiles

“MGC At AFLV ” By: Yesenia Garcia, Graduate Assistant, Fraternity & Sorority Life

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Multicultural Greek Council

“We’re Back..” By: Tomi Mick, President, Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc.

Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority Inc. at Illinois State University was formerly known as Zeta chapter. Our newest line, S.R.L. CeniZas are the second Phoenix line. Our colony was reactivated in Fall 2014 and we look forward to building upon our legacy and living above and beyond our principles of Academics, Community Service, Cultural Awareness, Social Interaction, and Morals and Ethics on campus and in the community.

Please join us in welcoming the following women into our fraternal community:

Captain: Whitney "Llarahi" Bellido

Deuce: Jocely " Zaira" Pacheco

Tre: Selena "Yaila" Gonzalez

Quad: Tiarra "Azaharia" Anderson

Heart: Briana "Nalaia" Renteria

Heart: Alicia "Saimara" Walker

Seven: Selene "Kailani" Lagunas

Eight: Sandra "Amahina" Lopez

Chain: Griselda "Quetzalli" Quezada

Chain: Sonia "Kaleela" Nava

Anchor: Victoria "Zekyrah" Gardner

Sigma Lambda Gamma is Latina-based, but we pride ourselves on continuing to build not only a multi-cultural sorority, but one that accepts all queer, non-binary, and female-identified people.

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College Panhellenic Council

The College

Panhellenic

Council wants to

welcome everyone

back to the new

semester! We have

some exciting goals

we want to share

with ISU and the

Greek Community.

We are looking

forward to develop-

ing closer relation-

ships with chapters and other councils. One thing in particular that we are excited about is raising

money for the College Panhellenic Council’s philanthropy: The Circle of Sisterhood. Circle of Sister-

hood is a mechanism by which all sorority women can stand together across affiliation, age, color, and

creed to make a difference in the lives of millions of girls and women around the world.

Collectively, we are one

of the largest

communities of college

-educated women in

the world. Standing

together as one

community, we will

give girls and women

an equal chance for

rewarding lives and

livelihoods through

schooling, the learning

of a trade, or even a

college degree. Check

out the impact we have

made thanks to sorority

women across the

world.

“A Note from CPC” By: 2015 College Panhellenic Council Executive Board

Source: https://www.circleofsisterhood.org/our-impact/by-the-numbers/

The Hall Grows Darker Page 9

“The Hall Grows Darker” By: Alex Snowden, Coordinator, Fraternity & Sorority Life

In fraternity and sorority life, or-ganizations are the life blood of a community. Visually speaking, communities are often times symbolized as a great hall.

In this hall hangs the charters of each chapter and as the light shines it symbolizes that these recognized chapters hold the val-ues and beliefs of the organizations not only in their hearts but also in their actions.

As chapters will sometimes lose their way, the light begins to dim and the great hall will grow darker and the organization does not shine as bright as it once did.

At Illinois State University we have had the pleasure to have our hall glow brighter and brighter through the past few years with new organizations, strong membership, and many members worthily wearing their badges.

Unfortunately, even our great hall will sometimes dim as organizations lose recognition. It is with great sadness that I report that some chapters at Illinois State University have lost recognition with the university. Due to not meeting university minimum standards Iota Phi Theta, Omega Psi Phi, and Phi Beta Sigma, fraternities have lost recognition for the Spring 2015 academic semester. These organizations will have the opportunity to apply for recognition for Fall 2015. Pi Kappa Alpha has also lost recognition with the University for a minimum of three years for continued violation of the university Code of Conduct.

Many would ask what does this mean for us? This means that although these members are still allowed to wear letters and be considered national members, they have ceased to be allowed to operate as student organizations of Illinois State University. In a basic sense all these members have been moved to alumni status. They cannot attend events, host events, or participate in any events collectively. Participation with members operating at what could be perceived as these organizations can cause your chapter to be placed under review with Student Conduct & Conflict Resolution and/or Fraternity and Sorority Life. This would also include if the organization changes its name to attempt to operate under another name. We ask that you as chapters and as individuals understand that closing an organization is never easy and although we cannot share all the details of the “why”, you understand it was not an easy decision. We hope that all these groups will one day return to Illinois State University stronger than ever and help our great hall shine brighter than it ever has before. This is only possible if the organization ceases operation so that they can return to campus as soon as feasibly allowed. For questions or concerns please contact Alex Snowden, Coordinator for Fraternity and Sorority Life, at [email protected].

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FSL Office Events

9th—13th IFC Recruitment

17th—Women’s New Member

Education (Greek 101)

All Fall 2014 & Spring 2015

New Members must attend

6:30 pm—Brown Ballroom

24th—Men’s New Member

Education (Greek 101)

All Fall 2014 & Spring 2015

New Members must attend

6:30 pm—Brown Ballroom

University Events

Council Events

6th—ACACIA Charter Banquet

Invite Only

8th—Public Ceremony

Escalante Room

2pm—4 pm

12—Delta Sigma Theta

Charter Day

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ΓΦΩ - Public

Ceremony

Acacia Charter Banquet

IFC Recruitment IFC Recruitment IFC Recruitment IFC Recruitment IFC Recruitment

ΑΓΔ - Broke Your Heart

ΔΣΘ Charter Day

ΠΚΦ - Valentine's

Day Auction

ΔΧ - Jimmy V

Week

Women's NME

Men's NME ΑΔΠ -

Lovestruck