LCA takes top awards at Drury

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Parts of an article in the April 15 '05 Mirror of Drury University (in Missouri):

For the second consecutive year, the members of Lambda Chi Alpha and Zeta Tau Alpha have earned the Chapter Excellence Awards for their Standards of Excellence submissions.

The Chapter Excellence Award is the highest award given to any fraternity or sorority on campus. It is awarded to two Greek organizations, one fraternity, and one sorority, each spring, in honor of their exceptional achievement in all of the criteria laid out in the Standards of Excellence.

"[Standards of Excellence] is a concentrated effort," said Mindy Maddux, director of Greek life, "to record the positive things that these chapters do on a yearly basis."

Each organization files their Standards of Excellence report before spring break. This annual report is based on 13 areas of interest divided into three categories: The Founder's Trophy, The Coat of Arms Trophy and the Briton Achievement Trophy.
Chapters are required to show documentation for each category.

The Founder's Trophy is awarded to the organizations that have excelled in service and support of others. The criteria for this award are interaGreek, university, community, alumni and national relations.

This includes exchanges, community volunteering, campus involvement and service of others.
Internal activities of the chapters are also taken into consideration.
The chapter that has obtained outstanding levels of success in chapter operations, formal recruitment, social programming, risk management and finances is awarded the Coat of Arms Trophy.

The Briton Achievement Trophy honors those chapters that have superb member and pledge education programs and chapter scholarship. . . .

The Greek chapter that scores the highest overall is awarded the Chapter Excellence Award. Lambda Chi Alpha and Zeta Tau Alpha both received every award last Saturday at the all-Greek barbecue. These awards will be presented May 5 at the Honors Convocation . . .