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 (continued on p2) IFC PRESIDENT’S LETTER PANHEL PRESIDENT cont. 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 Alpha Xi Delta 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. Kappa Delta 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 2 GREEK UPDATE, SPRING 2013 CHAPTER UPDATES ALPHA CHI OMEGA ALPHA DELTA PI 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, Alpha Chi Omega, 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! WWW.BUCKNELL.EDU/GREEKLIFE 3 CHAPTER UPDATES cont.