SPRING 2013

AN IFC/PANHELLENIC NEWSLETTER

Panhellenic PRESIDENT’S LETTER in this issue Hello Greek Community! My name is Maggie IFC President’s Letter p2 Collett and I am the 2013 Panhellenic President. I am very excited for this opportunity to serve as Chapter Updates p3

President and I look forward to working with many Contact Information p7 of you in the near future. The Bucknell University Panhellenic Council has experienced a thrilling start to the semester. We have been very busy working on numerous projects and activities throughout campus. We began the semester by attending the Doc Lenker Fraternity & Sorority Leadership Summit, which was held on campus and took place the weekend before classes started. The Panhellenic Council as well as the IFC, and representatives from every Greek organization attended this summit and gained copious amounts of knowledge concerning leadership and Greek Life. We all came together over Krimson and Kreme Ball these few days to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our campus. Hopefully in the coming semesters, we will continue to work together in improving the Greek GREEK GRAB! community and the Bucknell community as a whole.

For the year of 2013, the Panhellenic Council has developed a vision and a mission statement to help guide our efforts and develop goals for the campus. “The vision of the campus Panhellenic is to build upon intra/inter relationships to support one another.” We hope to improve intra- and inter-sorority relations and build sisterhood among all sorority women. We are striving to achieve this goal by sponsoring events that encourage and promote sisterhood. Additionally, our mission is: “to create an environment where sorority women can build lasting relationships, where every woman is heard and feels her opinion matters, where every woman feels that she can be herself and by ensuring visibility to the campus community of the presence of Panhellenic women.” This semester we hope to achieve this mission by continuing our faculty-student luncheon series and also instituting Hunt Hall wide dinners for all sorority women to attend. It is our hope that these events will help to keep communication open amongst the women and therefore strengthen the bonds between the seven sororities.

Service and philanthropy are two very important pillars of the Panhellenic community. This year, along with the IFC, we are raising money for the Million Penny Project’s recipient: Lewisburg Area Recreation Authority (LARA). We have a goal of

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In the past year alone, the IFC executive board $10,000 but hope to surpass that amount by the made great changes to both our campus and end of the year. Panhellenic and IFC are currently Greek communities. We restructured ourselves working on a few different service programs that internally, created new programs, and raised a will benefit LARA and the Million Penny Project record-breaking amount of money for various goal. Our main objective is to promote service organizations such as the Million Penny Project (MPP). IFC entered 2013 with a presence that is to the Lewisburg community, not only within stronger than ever. the Greek system, but with the entire Bucknell campus. This year, our IFC executive board has multiple goals we wish to accomplish, but they all center Last semester, the Panhellenic Council decided around three main ideas: building better relationships between faculty and the to invite a seventh sorority to campus. After a Greek community; strengthening inter-fraternity bonds; and, forming a more rigorous application process, the Extension cohesive and productive bond between the Greek community and the campus itself. We have hit the ground running this semester already by revamping the Committee selected to join faculty adviser system, creating more opportunities for fraternities to collaborate Bucknell University’s Greek community. This with each other for events, and establishing a new annual Greek-sponsored spring semester Alpha Xi Delta representatives event that will be open to campus. With only a month under our belts at this have been hard at work recruiting new members point we still have a lot to shoot for, but we are off to a good start. for their colony. We are happy to announce that

Just over a year ago, the campus climate report was published which highlighted they extended bids to a select group of women to many areas in which Greeks could use improvement. The response to this was join the sorority. These new members along with positive overall and the campus saw members of Greek organizations taking all the other sorority women on campus are very initiative to develop focus groups and community conversations in order to excited about this new organization. We wish brainstorm ways to fill the gaps and create an overwhelming change. Through them the best of luck in the coming semesters collaborations with other organizations on campus, non-affiliated students, and and we will continue to support them in their upper level administration of the University, we have already made many strides in the right direction. endeavors.

The Bucknell Greek community is continuing to grow as evidenced by the So far, this semester has been widely successful colonization of two new chapters. Rho’s fraternity chapter was for the Panhellenic Council and for the individual reestablished and we welcomed a sorority, Alpha Xi Delta, to our campus. Both organizations. The Greek community is working organizations are currently well populated and contributing new ideas and diligently to improve faculty relations, relations productivity to the community. between sororities and also relations within Finally I would like to thank you, the alumni, on behalf of the fraternity community sororities. I look forward to seeing the progression and the IFC executive board, for your continuing support. There are countless and growth of the sorority women and of the opportunities we would not be able to pursue if it were not for the legacy you left Greek community over the next coming us with and provision you continue to provide us with. semesters. Jonathan Como ’14, Panhellenic Council President Maggie Collett ’14, Panhellenic Council President

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ALPHA The beginning of this semester was quite busy for Alpha Delta Pi has started off the new year with a fantastic new set of officers, , as we planned for the arrival of who have already been very busy with event planning for this semester! new members through COB (continuous open bid). For example, we have already held one successful recruitment workshop We are so excited to announce that we welcomed for our sisters in preparation for formal recruitment in the fall. We are also six fantastic women to our sisterhood! On February looking forward to all of the spring recruitment events and hope that potential 7, we held a Bid Day celebration, complete with a new members enjoy all of the activities planned! Our first event included dinner at Bostwick, followed by cake in the Alpha our executive officers annual trip to Maryland for our District Leadership Chi suite. During dinner, we had the Bison Chips Conference on the weekend of February 22nd. It was exciting for our sisters sing to us, a joint celebration to welcome our newest to meet ADPi women from schools in the area, while collaborating with members and to celebrate MacDowell Month, the national advisors to learn more about our leadership positions. Another event time of the year when all Alpha Chi women honor that we are proud to announce is our second annual Mallard Ball, a southern their fine-arts heritage. Our spring philanthropy tradition that we hope will continue on our campus for years to come. Lastly, event, Alpha Male, took place on March 1st in Trout our annual philanthropy with TKE on March 2nd. In the past we hosted a Auditorium! Tickets to last year’s event sold out kickball tournament, but decided this year it would be fun to hold a volleyball quickly. This would allow us to donate all proceeds tournament. Both chapters hope to raise even more money this year for their to Transitions, a local shelter for victims of domestic national philanthropy. ADPi sisters are also excited for all of the other events violence. We are also looking forward to our Spring planned for the upcoming semester, and definitely wish to take advantage of Signature Recruitment event, Cup O’Joe with A Chi O, the multiple opportunities presented on campus! which will be held on April 7th. From now until finals our schedule is looking both exciting and eventful. We’re hoping it will be our best semester yet! ALPHA XI DELTA The women of Alpha Xi Delta welcomed home their first new member class in early February! We are so excited to be on campus and join the rest of the Bucknell community. The colony women have a lot to look forward to in the spring semester. Over the next 10 weeks the women will be educated on Alpha Xi Delta’s values and history during the colony process. During this time the women will also create a philanthropy event to be held in April, Autism Awareness Month. The sisters will spend this upcoming semester at a colony retreat, having twin reveal, sisterhoods and our very first formals. A date to look forward to is our Installation Ceremony in April, at this time the women will learn the ritual of Alpha Xi Delta and all their hard work from the semester will come together at this event. The sisters of Alpha Xi Delta look forward to participating in other chapter’s events this upcoming semester and getting to know the Fraternity Sorority Life community!

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CHI PHI Chi Omega and KDR philanthropy dinner. The brothers of have had a very lively and productive start to the spring semester. We have been involved in community service at the Milton Y, Haven homeless shelter, Community Harvest soup kitchen, Mostly Mutts dog shelter and many other locations. We also had 15 members excited to help out at the Annual Ice Festival in February. Furthermore, our Special Olympics committee has been actively CHI OMEGA fundraising for our annual Special O event which will be in the Kinney Natatorium on April 14th. This spring is already off to a great start for Chi Omega! We kicked off the semester with a philanthropy dinner with KDR at which we collected over 50 Members of Chi Phi have also been very active toys for Toys for Tots. In addition we’re looking forward to collaborating with throughout campus with a presence ranging from on the Sigma Chi Omega Dance-A-Thon on March 30, which will the captain of the Patriot League champion squash benefit Children’s Miracle Network. Our sisterhood has been growing even team, to the president of We Brake for Nobody as stronger through events such as Chocolate Tasting Parties and Hip Hop Abs. well as involvement and leadership in running Just this past week we expanded our sisterhood when we concluded our club, outing club, student government, the Spring COB process by welcoming four amazing girls into our sisterhood. theatre department and numerous other campus The next 14 days will be filled with sisterhood events where these girls can organizations. Three of our brothers have even get to know their new Bucknell family. We are so excited to continue to meet recently started a new campus music site called PNMs, especially at our spring event Chi Omega Christmas in April. We will Campus Vinyl that launched in February. be inviting PNMs to come celebrate the holidays with Chi Omega (because In lieu of our widespread interests and campus who doesn’t love Christmas all year round?!) and for every woman that involvement, our recruitment chairs have been attends we will donate $1 to the disaster relief organization Christmas in working extra hard to plan events for potential April. Look for more updates from Chi Omega as the semester continues! new members that will showcase the uniqueness, strength and bond that is ever present within the Chi Phi brotherhood. At the same time, we are always striving to better ourselves and our This semester has been off to a wonderful start for the sisters of Delta surroundings. This semester we particularly hope Gamma! We just welcomed three amazing new members, and are looking to strengthen our relationship and interactions with forward to getting to know our new sisters as the semester goes on. Delta faculty and alumni and see an increase in inter-Greek Gamma has been extremely busy with community service. We co-sponsored programming. Moreover, we hope to lessen our a blood drive with the Red Cross in January and exceeded our goal of 65 environmental footprint and raise campus awareness pints on both days of the drive! Our sisters raised awareness for our philanthropy, about pressing issues such as the prevalence of Service for Sight, by giving away free candy in the LC mall with vision facts sexual assault in our culture. As always, we plan to attached to them. We are also getting ready for our upcoming fundraiser, continue to grow and expand as an organization and Bows for Bucknell. Our big philanthropy event of the semester, Anchor stay true to our motto of truth, honor and personal Splash, will be coming up in April, so look out for more details. We are hoping integrity. All in all, the Chi Phi Fraternity is looking for another great turnout. forward to a successful and rewarding semester!

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DELTA UPSILON The start of the 2013 calendar year sees Kappa Alpha Theta started off the spring semester by welcoming five at its highest number of members since its charter was wonderful new women to our sisterhood. After two weeks of COB events reestablished on Bucknell’s campus in 2007. The fall and lunches, these five incredible individuals were extended a bid from our and spring pledge classes have brought a total of organization, and they all accepted. We celebrated with them at our Founder’s 25 new members. Day celebration in which we also honored our founding women and the sisterhood that they worked so hard to provide for us. One goal our chapter Delta Upsilon is also pleased to announce its 93rd has set for this semester is to establish a better relationship with our alumni. annual Demie Play that will be held Saturday, April 20th To help accomplish that goal we created a Kappa Alpha Theta, Epsilon Pi from 7:30-8:30 p.m. in the Leanne Freas Trout Alumni Facebook page and are in the process of adding alumni to the group. Auditorium. Proceeds will go to the Charles Pollack Local alumni were also invited to partake in our Founder’s Day celebration, Memorial Scholarship Fund and the Global Service but due to the snowstorm unfortunately none were able to attend. On Initiative. Lastly, there has been a lot of money put into February 27th, Kappa Alpha Theta hosted a half-time snack break for faculty refurnishing the gym, common room and libraries in and staff at the last men’s home basketball game. order to make that area more useful. We are currently in the process of enhancing the outside appearance of the house. The brothers of Kappa Delta Rho have been keeping themselves busy. As a recolonizing fraternity on campus, we have been occupied with immersing ourselves in Bucknell’s Greek community. One of our biggest goals is to add great gentleman to our organization. We are now up to 22 members, including a pledge who accepted his bid at the beginning of the semester. We have enjoyed serving the Lewisburg community by helping out at the Lewisburg Children Center, where we helped to landscape the playground. We have “also helped our national philanthropy KDR Kids by selling Domino’s Pizza coupons to raise money for B Positive, an organization that supports children with cancer and their families. We recently had a great time hosting a dinner at

Krimson and Kreme Ball our house for the ladies of Kappa Alpha Theta. This semester, we plan on hosting dinner for the ladies of Chi Omega and Delta Gamma as well. At FRATERNITY, INC. the end of the first semester, we elected new officers, including Nathan Coughenour, our new president. In the coming semester we look forward Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. now under new to continuing to grow as a fraternity and serving the Lewisburg community. leadership is currently seeking to strengthen its presence on campus. We had a major social event this spring that was a joint venture with Sorority, Inc, the fourth Annual Krimson and Kreme Ball. From a community service stand point, This semester has been off to a busy start for the ladies of Kappa Kappa Gamma! I have established and maintained guide right We started off with very successful executive position transitions; our new initiatives at Meadow view as well as conducted Chapter Council is excited for the year ahead. Additionally, we hosted our annual a clothing drive for the 4 Bells Church in Millmont, philanthropy event, Kappa Kisses, at the beginning of February, which was Pennsylvania. I have also been fulfilling my duties for extremely successful and helped us raise enough money to make a generous the Adopt -A-Highway maintenance corporation by contribution to Thyroid Cancer Research. This month we will be making blankets supporting the community with highway cleanups. for those in need, volunteering at both the Community Harvest Kitchen and Lewisburg Library, as well as participating in downtown cleanups. This semester, a bunch of our Kappa sisters are studying abroad in countries such as Ghana, Italy, Australia, London and South Africa. As much as we love Lewisburg, we have enjoyed living vicariously through them as they travel the world. Finally, we are proud to say that five of our sisters have been accepted to pursue careers with Teach For America in cities such as Boston and Denver after graduation. We are looking forward to an exciting and eventful spring semester!

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KAPPA SIGMA The addition of the fall pledge class of 31 has positively influenced our fraternity. They were officially initiated this past semester and brought our active member count to 81. A new executive council has been chosen and have already begun working to advance the community involvement of the chapter. Our new annual haunted house philanthropy event was a huge success as we entertained over 200 attendees. In addition to this, the fraternity has two or three events being planned for the spring semester to raise money for The Military Heroes Campaign. In addition to this, we had another successful intramural season as we won volleyball and were runners-up in flag football. We are looking forward to great basketball and kickball seasons!

LAMBDA CHI KAPPA PSI June 3rd marks our 100th anniversary on this campus, a momentous feat of The brothers of Phi Kappa Psi, Pennsylvania Gamma our organization’s service, passion and fortitude: both of current and years past. Chapter have a lot in store for this upcoming semester. We have begun to plan a celebration to commemorate this historic milestone. We have already increased our mandatory community service hours from eight to 10 and are working Chapter life has been busy the past year. After moving into our house last towards setting up multiple joint-philanthropy events spring, we’ve begun to make it feel like a home and have settled in comfortably. with various organizations on campus. Hopefully as we continue to partake in our traditions we will able to foster that feeling into new memories for the classes to come. With that said, we were In addition to philanthropy, our chapter has created proud to initiate over 20 new brothers last fall, who share our devotion and three $1,500 scholarships that we will award to three love for this fraternity. Last semester also marked our 2nd annual Watermelon first-year students displaying the leadership qualities Bust, the national philanthropy event hosted at many that we strive to embody as a brotherhood. We have chapters across the country. Each sorority on campus came to partake in a a multitude of potential rush events planned for this morning of watermelon-themed competition, and it was a blast for everyone semester, including a barbecue in our backyard and involved. Alpha Chi Omega were ultimately the victors with the proceeds a charity basketball tournament. This semester is going to their philanthropy of choice. Furthermore, we are looking to expand also very important for our chapter seeing as we will our own philanthropy efforts with the North American Food Drive into the be going through our accreditation process. We also Spring with new events and a better dedication to helping the community. look forward to the regional workshop on April 20th that we will be hosting. This will be a good chance to welcome Phi Kappa Psi brothers from chapters across a variety of states, as well as to welcome the national fraternity president to our campus. We will The brothers of the Phi Gamma Delta, Delta chapter have continued their continue trying to foster relations with our national tradition of success in academics and athletics this past semester. The fraternity, the campus and community at large. We brothers of FIJI have been improving the community by enthusiastically taking currently setting up a monthly invite to the Public part in weekly downtown clean-ups. Many brothers of the Delta chapter Safety staff to come to our house for coffee and play on Bucknell’s Lacrosse team. The Lacrosse team’s season has recently pastries. In conclusion, there are a lot of promising begun and all brothers are looking forward to a successful year. Last semester events and changes happening around the the brothers of FIJI won the flag football intramural championship, and are Pennsylvania Gamma Phi Psi Chapter this spring. looking to win, for the second year in a row, the softball intramural championship. FIJI’s annual pig dinner is quickly approaching and we are excited to reconnect

with our alumni. We hope to have a large turnout as we have had in years past. Doc Lenker Leadership Summit

6 GREEK UPDATE, SPRING 2013 CHAPTER UPDATES cont. IFC Contacts PRESIDENT Jonathan Como (jbc027) VICE PRESIDENT INTERNAL Michael Maneri (msm033) SIGMA CHI VICE PRESIDENT EXTERNAL Charles Cole (clc031) The brothers of the Kappa chapter have completed spring rush and are happy TREASURER Glen Morisano (gnm005) to welcome 11 new pledge Brothers into our organization. These young men are excited to begin their commitment of lifelong brotherhood. SECRETARY Spencer Ivey (wsi001) RECRUITMENT CHAIR Spenser Frieri (sff003) This spring the brothers are volunteering once a week at a local Sports Camp for young teens. We also engage in downtown clean-ups and recycling endeavors COMMUNITY SERVICE Jeremy Van De Rijn (jvdr001) AND PHILANTHROPY CHAIR with other members of the University. Brothers are also working in tandem with SPECIAL EVENTS CHAIR Sean McCarthy (sfm010) non-fraternity members in the group Global Governance to organize a charity dodge-ball tournament. We will be hosting a charity Dance-A-Thon in early spring GAMMA CHAIR Nate Gleason (nmg013) with the women on the Chi Omega sorority. The brothers are also planning our ALUMNI/FACULTY LIAISON David Gross (dbg006) first annual Alumni Brother Golf Outing, which will be held at a nearby country GAME CHAIR Alex Sandoval (ass007) club on April 20th. Derby Days 2013 is scheduled for the week following. Any questions can be directed to the house email, [email protected]. PANHELLENIC COUNCIL CONTACTS

PRESIDENT Maggie Collett (mmc026) EPSILON EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Stephanie Merenbach (sam050) This semester began with about 10 members of the chapter attending the VP OF ADMINISTRATION Kristen Romagnoli (kmr026) Doc Lenker leadership retreat. The members learned a lot about many different VP OF RECRUITMENT Lexie Leone (amjl001) leadership aspects and were able to communicate them to the rest of the VP OF RECRUITMENT Sarah Battle (sbb016) chapter. We were happy to discover that we had the highest GPA among the COUNSELORS fraternities on campus in the fall semester. This past weekend, our chapter VP OF PROGRAMMING Jasmine King (jbk020) counselor, Chad North, spoke to the chapter about the Balanced Man Program. VP OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH Ally Flessel (aef011) This is the program that our executive board has decided to make our main project for our term, so this was an exciting first step. Lastly, our new philanthropy and community service chairs have been working hard setting up events and CHAPTER PRESIDENTS creating opportunities for the brothers to give back to the community. Alpha Chi Omega Nicole Graham (nlg009) Alpha Delta Pi Hallie Wald (hsw009) Chi Omega Sarah Talbot (svt001) Chi Phi Davis Gallinghouse (dag027) The brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon had a fantastic first semester. We attended a community service even at the YMCA in Milton, playing basketball and dodgeball Delta Gamma Alex Panzarino (amp025) with 6-13 year olds. Over fall break we completed our 9th annual Reagan Run, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc Mayron Yohannes (my013) from our chapter house all the way to Washington D.C., raising over $20,000 for Delta Upsilon Jeffrey Finegan (jef030) the Alzheimer’s Association. Sophomore Tyler Bell raised the highest individual Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Donald Quarles (dpq001) total with nearly $2,000. We also had our yearly Ultra and Back to School themed Kappa Alpha Theta Kelsey Klopfer (kak030) registers with great success. George Kitchens continues to command the kitchen, making excellent meals, everything from his excellent pasta dishes to Kappa Delta Rho Sviatoslav Lesko (lsrl012) prime steaks. Overall, it was a great semester for TKE and we are looking forward Kappa Kappa Gamma Charlotte Marks (crm033) to having another great semester. Sean Sharkey (sjs056) Lambda Chi Alpha Ben Shelley (bjs039) Phi Gamma Delta Sam Philip (swdp001) Phi Kappa Psi Chet Otis (rco010) Sigma Chi Max Cooke (cmc046) Brandon Chick (blc024) Tau Kappa Epsilon Steve DeMiles (smd027)

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