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March Issue The University of Maryland, College Park Spring 2014
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Stephanie Sabar tweeted that she loves being apart of Greek life because she “always [has] someone to get coffee in between classes!” And Megan Blaier tweeted that her sorority “helped me become the best version of my-self!”
Thursday, Jessica Evans, PHA Vice Presi-dent of Public Relations, hosted Celebration of the Creed. This event included a reading of the creeds for each chapter in the National Panhellenic Conference, in-cluding chapters not on the UMD campus. There was also a presentation about the Panhellenic philanthro-py, Circle of Sisterhood, as well as an activity simi-
lar to those in “Letters Off” sessions, which shows that we are all similar, regardless of the different letters that we wear.
Friday, PHA asked sorority women to wear their Greek Terps shirt that Alex Broseker, the former PHA Vice President of Public Re-lations, provided to show pride for the Mary-land Greek community as a whole.
The week was successful in helping soror-ity women remember why they love being part of Greek life at the university.
Sororities celebrate PHA Pride WeekBy: Courtney Hoff
The University of Maryland’s Panhellenic Association and sororities celebrated Pan-hellenic Pride Week this month.
From March 3 to March 7, PHA asked so-rority women to celebrate PHA through dif-ferent events and tasks each day.
Monday, March 3 was Internation-al Badge Day. PHA asked sorority women to wear their soror-ity badges, in order to showcase their sister-hood. The National Panhellenic Confer-ence established Inter-national Badge Day in 1997. NPC also named the theme of this year as “Wear Your Letters on Your Heart.”
Tuesday, the Panhellenic community con-tinued showing its sisterhood by wearing their letters.
Wednesday, sorority women demonstrat-ed positive PR on social media. Different sorority women tweeted why they love be-ing a part of the Panhellenic Association at UMD, with many mentioning the feel of community. Many women also tweeted why they love being a part of PHA at Maryland.
The Interfraternity Council has concluded recruitment this semester with over 500 bids extended to potential new members.
Partially due to the new structure of fra-ternity recruitment to allow for more chapter visibility, it has been one of the largest and most successful semesters yet for all the fra-ternities.
The new executive board has been in-ducted and sent four representatives to the Northeastern Greek Leadership Association conference in Pittsburgh.
IFC has created a new liaison program that aims to increase communication between chapters and the executive board.
PHA and IFC released Greek Week themes and matchups, along with a sneak peek at some exciting changes, one of which being athletic events.
The IFC looks forward to the rest of the semester and building cooperative relation-ships to help create the best possible Greek community.
To date, this is the University of Mary-land Panhellenic Association’s most suc-cessful recruitment.
With a record number of girls going through re-cruitment, chapters and Panhellenic were ready IRU� ZRPHQ� WR� ÀQG� WKHLU�home for the rest of their life.
Roughly 880 women went through recruit-ment, which is abso-lutely amazing. We are so happy of how suc-cessful and wonderful the entire process has
been. Now starts an even more exciting time
for some—big-little pairings! I am so ex-cited for new members to get their big sister, that will not only be a guide for them through their sorority experi-ence but be a relation-ship that compares to no other.
Overall, I am anticipating the next Panhellenic recruitment
and the opportunity for other wonderful ZRPHQ� WR� ÀQG� WKHLU�home!
Photo by Jessica Evans
Photo from marylandpanhellenicassociation.com
By: Alex Broseker, Panhellenic President
UMD conlcudes most succesful formal sorority recruitment yet
IFC !nishes recruitmentBy: Cody Hobelmann, IFC President
A few facts about NPHC
• NPHC stands for National Pan-Hellenic Council.
• These nine organizations are known as the “divine nine.”
• These fraternities and sororities are historically African-American.
• 7KH�¿UVW�RUJDQL]DWLRQ��$OSKD�3KL�$OSKD�was founded on Dec. 4, 1906 at Cornell University.
• Delta Sigma Theta has the most chap-ters out of any Greek organization in the world.
• Some famous alumni of NPHC chap-ters are: Rosa Parks (Alpha Kappa Alpha), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Alpha Phi Alpha), Bill Cosby (Omega Psi Phi), W.E.B. DuBois (Alpha Phi Alpha) and Jackie Robinson (Alpha Phi Alpha).
• All nine organizations helped aid the victims of Hurrican Katrina.
2014-2015 Panhellenic Executive BoardPresident - Alex Broseker
Vice President of Judicial A"airs - Cait BrownVice President of Community A"airs - Talya Laster
Vice President of Recruitment - Vikk ShepelevVice President of Administrative A"airs - Kaitlyn Silk
Vice President of Social Responsibility - Tricia McLaughlinVice President of Academic A"airs - Camille Baroni
Vice President of Public Relations - Jessica EvansVice President of Membership Development - Katie Skrzyniarz
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Alex Broseker-President
The president oversees all aspects of PHA and works with other Greek councils, WKH�2I¿FH�RI�)UDWHUQLW\�DQG�Sorority Life, university administration and College 3DUN�RI¿FLDOV��6KH�DOVR�DV-sists in programming and coordinating events.
Cait Brown-VP of Judicial Affairs
The Vice President of Judicial Affairs pre-sides over hearings of cases regarding the social event monitor-ing policy and PHA judicial policy. She also trains New Mem-ber Educators and
works with each chapters’ Standards chairs.
Talya Laster-VP of Community Affairs
The Vice President of Community Affairs is the head of Homecoming and Greek Week committees, helps plan intersorority events and plans commu-nity service events with chapters’ philanthropy chairs.
Vikk Shepelev-VP of Recruitment
The Vice President of Recruitment is respon-sible for overseeing all chapters’ recruit-ment efforts and plan-ning spring formal re-cruitment and assisting chapter with all infor-mal recruitments.
Kaitlyn Silk-VP of Administrative Affairs
The Vice President of Ad-ministrative Affairs is in FKDUJH� RI� DOO� 3+$� ¿QDQFHV��the budget and she approves and gives out grants. She also records and distribues the minutes at all PHA meetings and is the administrator of all electoronic groups
Tricia McLaughlin-VP of Social Responsibility
The Vice President of So-cial Responsibility educates the Greek community on drug, alcochol, and sexual health related issues. She also trains social chairs, plans events, and recruits and trains indivuals becom-ing Social Event Monitors.
Camille Baroni-VP of Academic Affairs
The Vice President of Ac-ademic Affairs promotes scholarship within the Panhellenic community. She sponsors and awards scholarships and hosts scholarship banquets.
Jessica Evans-VP of Public Relations
The Vice President of Pub-lic Relations is responsible for maintaing the Panhel-lenic website, distributing Columns and creating pro-motional items. She is also in charge of all chapters’ PR t-shirt designs.
Katie Skrzyniars-VP of Membership DevelopmentThe Vice President of Mem-bership Development is re-sponsible for running the Junior Panhellenic Program, Letters Off and planning leadership retreats.
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By: Melinda PandianganSince its founding in spring 2003 here at
the University of Maryland, College Park, Alpha Theta Gamma Multicultural Sorority, Inc. has been committed to promoting mul-ticulturalism and our four pillars of philan-thropy, academics, diversity, and leadership. $V�WKH�ÀUVW�PXOWLFXOWXUDO�RUJDQL]DWLRQ�DQG�
multicultural sorority on campus, we have
had a great impact in bridging the gap be-tween different cultures and beliefs. Many of our programs address interracial, inter-faith, gender equality, marriage equality, and socioeconomic inequality issues. We are DOZD\V�ZRUNLQJ�WRZDUG�RXU�YLVLRQ��D�XQLÀHG�*UHHN�/LIH�DQG�D�XQLÀHG�FDPSXV�VWUHQJWK-ened by diversity and understanding.
Our philanthropy is “for the betterment
of the immediate community,” which en-ables us to discover and solve current issues of those in need around us. We love doing hands on work! Service events include feed-ing the homeless, mentoring community \RXWK��EHDXWLÀFDWLRQ�SURMHFWV��KHDOWK�HGXFD-tion, and volunteering with disabled chil-dren.
Get to know Alpha Theta Gamma of UGC
Meet the new Panhellenic Executive Board
