Volume 3, Issue 2
Feb 29, 2008
In this issue, you'll read:
Mid-American Greek Conference
Dance Marathon Recap
Sigma Phi Epsilon To Open Membership and Housing to International Students
ISU Greek Student Named to All-USA Academic Team
Iowa State Alert System
Iowa Generation Commission
Upcoming Philanthropies
Calendar
Mid-American Greek Conference The MGCA Awards are designed specifically to assist councils in achieving the highest level of excellence possible in their programming and council management. The awards outline the actions and policies of an ideal council. As such, if councils utilize the MGCA Awards for goal setting and as a guide for action and visionary accomplishment, they will be well on the road to achieving excellence. This was the 2nd consecutive year that the men have been awarded the Jellison and the 14th consecutive year the women have been awarded the Sutherland. Both Iowa State University Councils qualify as Division IV competitors. The Sutherland Division IV award refers to councils with 14 or more chapters and the Jellison Division IV award refers to councils with 24 or more chapters. Councils are scored on the following areas: For pictures, go to: The following Sig Ep men have put a lot of time and energy into making this possible: Clay Hopes, Sean Regan, Adam Schilling, Zackery Schaaf, and Drew Koeller For more information, please visit: www.sigepfraternity.com/international For the news release, go to: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/2008/feb/deal.shtml Congratulations to Chris! As quickly as one minute after the emergency message was sent, members of the ISU community began receiving notifications. While data is still being gathered on the test, it appears that the overwhelming majority of users within ISU Alert received notification quickly, with the entire delivery completed in approximately 90 minutes. ISU Alert is a system for quickly delivering emergency messages to members of the ISU community. Individuals stipulate how they want to receive messages -- via voice message, text message, e-mail or some combination of the three. (Individuals also can opt out of receiving ISU Alert messages.) For more information about ISU Alert, go to: http://isualert.iastate.edu/ To read the full report published by the Commission, go to: http://www.iowalifechanging.com/generation/ March 9th- Alpha Chi Omega Sorority & Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority's Mr. Greek Competition at Hoover Hall from 2-5PM. Tickets are $5 and the proceeds are split equally to benefit the Ames ACCESS Women's Shelter and the Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation for Juvenile Diabetes. April 6th- Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority's Kappa Kakes Pancake Breakfast at Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority from 9AM-1PM. Tickets are $5 and the proceeds benefit Dance Marathon and the Children's Miracle Network. April 17th- Delta Zeta Sorority's DZ Dogs at Delta Zeta Sorority from 10PM-2AM. Tickets are $5 and proceeds are donated to a philanthropy of the sorority's choosing (TBA). April 20th- Pi Beta Phi Sorority's Taco Dinner at Pi Beta Phi Sorority from 5-8PM. Tickets are $4 before and $5 at the event. Proceeds are given to Links of Literacy and the Half Pint Library.
The Iowa State University Interfraternity Council (IFC) and Collegiate Panhellenic Council (CPC) were honored with the prestigious Jellison and Sutherland Awards (respectively) at the 2008 Mid-American Greek Council Association (MGCA) Annual Conference. Both IFC and CPC executive councils attended the conference as well as National Pan-Hellenic Council and Multicultural Greek Council officers. Thirty-four students attended the conference in total as ambassadors of Iowa State University. 
Amalie Galm and Dusty Kroll, CPC and IFC council presidents, with the awards.
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Dance Marathon Recap
Dance Marathon, held Saturday, January 27, raised over $190,000 for the University of Iowa Children's Hospital via the Children's Miracle Network. Of the almost 600 participants, nearly 440 of them are Greek. Greek students continue to make their mark on this annual event.
http://lamp.iowastatedaily.com/slideshow/news/dance/
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Sigma Phi Epsilon To Open Membership and Housing to International Students
The men of Sigma Phi Epsilon have decided to allow international students the opportunity to join their fraternity and have created a website to encourage membership. One of their members, Clay Hopes, wanted to make this possible after he extensively studied abroad and wanted to bring a piece of his international experience to the other members of his fraternity. What ensued was much discussion with the Study Abroad Office and within the chapter and ultimately led to the development of the International Opportunities committee.
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ISU Greek Student Named to All-USA Academic Team
Chris Deal, a member of Phi Delta Theta, was recently named to the All-USA Academic Second Team by USA Today.
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Iowa State Alert System
Officials piloted Iowa State's new emergency alert system Friday, February 9, by sending test messages to approximately 31,000 ISU students, faculty and staff.
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Iowa Generation Commission
The Generation Iowa Commission has joined with the Iowa Department of Economic Development to launch the site, GenerationIowa.com, the one-stop shop for everything young Iowa. The site includes links to Iowa careers, events and nightlife, and allows young professionals to network online. Their focus is to encourage the effort to recruit and retain young people to Iowa.
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Upcoming Philanthropies
March 2nd- Kappa Delta Sorority's Shamrock All-You-Can-Eat Spaghetti Dinner at Lord of Life Lutheran Church from 5-8PM. $5 before the event and $6 at the door. All proceeds are donated to Prevention of Child Abuse America.
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Calendar
March 17-21: Spring Break
March 31-April 6: Greek Week
April 4-6: Greek Getaway, Prospective Member Preview Program
April 6: Vespers, C.Y. Stephens Auditorium
April 7-13: VEISHEA
April 19: Greek Alumni Alliance meeting, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Phi Kappa Theta
April 28-May 2: Dead Week
May 5-9: Finals Week
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Contact us! Office of Greek Affairs, 515-294-1023, 0355 Memorial Union
www.greek.iastate.edu
The Office of Greek Affairs at Iowa State University is a unit of the Dean of Students Office providing resources to the Greek community, Greek governing councils, inter/national organizations, local advisors, and individual students. Experienced professional and support staff provide assistance to the Greek community in a variety of ways.If you have questions or suggestions, please contact Katie Mott (kmott@iastate.edu).Published with Newsletter Ease