GREEK LIFE

Frat erni ties and Soro ritie s stan d up for 11th Elon thon

This year, over 1,400 Elon students participated in the event, with nearly 500 standing for the entire 24 hour period.More than 10 families spoke about their experiences at Duke Childrens Hospital during the breaks of dozens of performance groups. The energy throughout it all was infectious as people were excited about giving back to such a great hospital. In the end, Elonthon raised $212,728 for Duke Childrens Hospital, more than double last years grand total!

Inside Greek Week Activities Pages 5 & 6 and alumni spotlights on page 8

Panhellenic

Zetas new members pose outside of the house for their first pledge class photo!

Alpha Omicron Pi welcomed 60 new members to its chapter on bid day! Last years pledge class had 49 members-what a jump!

This year PHC welcomed 494 new women to organizations. NPHC welcomed five new memebrs, and IFC welcomed 127 new men!

Alpha Xi Delta celebrates bid day and welcomes their new members with a Mardi Gras theme!

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Phi Mus national philanthropy is Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. As the only sorority with a corporate sponsor, they raised over $9,000 for their philanthropy.

The Iota Psi chapter of Alpha Chi Omega hosted their third annual Swimathon on March 1. It supported their local philanthropy, Family Abuse Services of Alamance County. Through this event the women raised over $1,000 for relief services.

Kappa Delta created the Confidence Coalition in the spring of 2009 to bring together all the organizations, companies and individuals committed to promoting self-esteem and confidence among girls and women. They participated in International Girls Day in the fall and raised over $7,500 for their philanthropy.

IFC
Sigma Chi hosts Derby Days every year with all proceeds going toward The Childrens Miracle Network! For Derby Days this year, Sigma Chi had all nine sororities participate in the week long event. Organizations donate money in order to participate. They began the week with a coaches auction in which sororities bid on coaches for the week. This year each sorority got three coaches who assisted them in the events during the week. As part of the event, Sigma Chi held a volleyball tournament behind Smith, as well as a powderpuff football event at the intramural fields. Derby Days concluded with field day games. Sororities participated in events such as tug of war, dizzy bat, ballon toss, etc. for points that went on to the leader board, which is listed below. After a competitive week Zeta Tau Alpha won with the most points. First place: ZTA with 7770 points Second place : AXO with 5835 points Third place: Phi Mu with 5610 points Forth place: AZD with 5600 points Fifth place: Sigma Kappa with 5205 Sixth place: KD with 5165 points Seventh place: AOII with 3900 points Eighth place: Tri-Sigma with 3700 points Ninth place: Tri-Delta with 3430 points

$8,691.00 was raised!

NPHC
The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) has been off to a great year. Represented by the six black greek letter organizations, our chapters on campus have worked to provide quality programs, serve the community, and promote scholarship among students. In the upcoming weeks, several of the chapters will put on their spring semester programming week, as well as individual programming days. For the most current updates on NPHC chapters, follow NPHC on twitter @EU_NPHC. We cant wait to see you all at events in the near future. Stay updated by following us on twitter! - Sigma Delta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. @SiggyDAlphas - Omicron Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. @OE_AKAs - Nu Theta Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. @NuTheta_Nupes - Omicron Iota Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. @OI_OhMy_Deltas - Alpha Beta Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. @ABB_Sigmas - Xi Omicron Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. @XiO_Zetas

Members of NPHC attend the Greek Leadership Conference in February

Greek Week
Greek Week was from April 11-17 this year! The events are as listed below! -Kick Off BBQ -Elonthon -IFC Kickball Tourny -Coin Wars -Eating Contest -Greek Week Dance -Service Opportunities

AOIIs pose woth one of the miracle children that the money raised at Elonthon helps.

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Greek Week Dance Winners 1st: Alpha Xi Delta 2nd: Delta Delta Delta 3rd: Phi Mu

Alumni Spotlight
Tavianna Williams Scott Swedberg

I am currently a second year grad student in counsel education and student affairs at Clemson University. I am still an active member of Delta Sigma Theta, participating in several local chapters. The most important thing I took out of Greek Life was learning to be OK with agreeing to disagree, people wont always agree with everyone and it is really important to be able to recognize that everyone will stand by their opinions and you dont have to agree. The biggest things I took away from Greek Life were developing my communication skills both writing and in person, being dedicated to something for as long as you
live, and having passion for everything in which youre involved.

Im currently living in Tucson, AZ, working with the University of Arizona. Im very involved in SigEp as an alumnus. Not only do I continue to advise my SigEp chapter at Elon, I work for SigEp Headquarters. Last year I traveled throughout California, Arizona, and Nevada consulting with chapters to improve operations and this year Im responsible for growing the fraternity by starting new chapters and revitalizing underperforming chapters. Im currently starting the chapter at the University of Arizona. Greek Life has allowed me to know people all over the country, and my professional and personal network is tremendous, allowing me to find friendship and mentorship almost anywhere I go.

Greek Life Highlights

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The sisters of AOII will participate in a walk in support of their philanthrop arthritis researc, in Durham. On April 26th Elon is hosting Relay For Life, and many greek organizations are invovled in the event. The sister of AXO are organizing a capture the flag tournament to raise money for their philanthropy. On Saturday, April 27th the brothers of Lambda are hosting a watermelon bust competition to raise money for their philanthropy, Loaves and Fishes Alpha Xi Delta is hosting a ziti dinner on April 25 to raise money for their philanthropy.

Greek Week Dance is the event that wraps up Greek Week!