I'll bite!!
For the third year in a row, I chaired a Greek Life/Measures of Our Success (MOOS) Halloween Social--Community Service Project on campus. This collaboration, started by our chapter (Sigma Gamma) five years ago, gives fourth and fifth grade Carmen-Buckner Elementary (named after an active golden soror in the Lambda Nu Omega chapter, by the way!) an opportunity to 'trick or treat' in the Greek Lounges on campus. The nine GLO's on campus host 'presentations' in their respective lounges--presentations could mean a 'haunted lounge' or any other Halloween related event, lasting around 30-45 minutes. After they've rotated all the lounges, they have dinner and story sharing. I've done it since my freshman year and it is truly rewarding.
Since most of these students (mostly minority--Latino and Black) come from lower middle class to lower class backgrounds, this is an opportunity to show them not only a small part of college life, but to enrich one day of their lives with fun, candy, games and food.
For my position in the chapter
I am responsible for springboarding and coordinating many of the programs for the chapter. Our chapter has three signature programs: Sister 2 Sister (monthly), AKAerobics (bimonthly) and the annual Date Auction (raises money for a specific foundation or charity--the last two years, the foundations were Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Lake County and MOOS). Our chapter is also collaborative in our grad chapter's Ivy Reading AKAdemy, Tax Freedom Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service.
After graduation, I plan on being just as active in my hometown graduate chapter!!
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