Alcohol Awareness Seminar

URI Health Services recently held an alcohol awareness seminar within our chapter. We were reminded of the effects of alcohol and informed about new drugs that are becoming popular and to watch out for. These types of seminars are very important because we are better safe than sorry! URI has put a ban on bus trips to Providence because of the huge liability the University upholds. Many people have gotten hurt and accidents happen all the time. Our chapter president also put a ban on the bus trips because of the same reasons. We plan to have seminars with health services every semester and to spread more awareness around campus about drugs and alcohol and the harmful effects.

Leadership Award

At the sorority of the year awards banquet we won the outstanding leadership award. Thank you to our sisters who go out and make a difference around campus and in our chapter, you won this award for us. All members of the executive board are included in this. They are the ones who go out to represent our chapter and have shaped our good image. We are known to have some of the highest GPA's on campus and we like to keep our good reputation. Many of the girls are leadership major or minors and really contribute to make a difference in our house. Keep up the good work girls!

Philanthropy Week

Philanthropy week has been scheduled for November 15th-19th 2010! We can't wait until next semester to find out the pairings. Philanthropy week is very similar to greek week in the sense that it is a week long event of fundraising for our "philanthropy" which is cardiac care. Each sorority is paired with a fraternity to make teams. The team that earns the most money is the winner of the week. Some of the fundraisers include a blood drive, canned food drive, children's book drive, and many more. Philanthropy week is what really starts to get all of greek life excited for greek week! We hope to raise as much money as possible and make our chapter proud!

Fall Recruitment

As the year comes to an end we are down to our last Chapter meeting of the year. Believe it or not we are already starting to talk about fall rush! This will be my first time "rushing" and my pledge class and I couldn't be more excited! We are anxious to learn all the new songs, plan our rush outfits, and learn all the ins-and-outs to fall recruitment. Since Alpha Phi rushed first last fall, we have a lot to live up to. I went through the process myself but I never got to see behind the scenes. It is a very long process but in the end it is worth it. More updates to come!

Spring Formal

This years spring formal will be held on Saturday May 1st. We decided to try something different and this year we will be taking a cruise ship around Newport. Our house father is very worried about all the liabilities this could entail but all the sisters couldn't be more excited. This is a great way to finish up the semester and go out with a bang before a long hard week of finals. I hope all goes smoothly and there will be many memories made and great pictures taken too on the Newport Harbor!!

There will be a mandatory formal meeting this Wednesday the 28th! You MUST attend if you're planning on going. There is a lot of information to go over and you must sign a waiver in order to go. See you all there!

KING OF HEARTS TONIGHT!!

After being post-poned due to lack of contestant our annual King of Hearts Pageant is TONIGHT! 8pm in Quinn Auditorium. Contestants must arrive at 7:30 with all their attire! Everyone should come out and support our philanthropy of cardiac care. It is $5 at the door with a student ID and $7 without one. We are all really excited for the event and it should be a great time. Tee-shirts will also be sold so don't forget to pick one up! Stay tuned to see who the next king of hearts will be!

ALphi's new King of Hearts of 2010 is Beta Tau Alpha's Lincoln James!! Congratulations and good job to all who participated.

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Greek Week Follow Up

Every year Greek Week is the most anticipated week of the year in Greek Life. It is something everyone looks forward too. As I mentioned before we were paired with Zeta Beta Tau this year and we were all so excited because they have a reputation for winning every year. We started out the week very strong and took first place in the chariot run, 50 yard dash, softball game, and the frisbee toss. Everyone was so pumped up to continue the rest of the week. We took part in toga socials, anything but clothes, neon nights, team colors, and even a jello wrestling social. One of our girls competed in the Mr. and Mrs. Greek week pageant and unfortunatley didn't win but we still had fun anyways. On Thursday was the greek sing contest where we took in 1st place!! We worked so hard on our routine and it payed off in the end. On Friday was the dance competition and we didn't place either but ZBT got first and boosted our excitement! We were sad that the week couldn't last forever but we are so excited for next year!

Red Dress Gala 3/ King of Hearts

The Red Dress Gala was a huge success. We raised a ton of money for the American Heart Association. Everyone looked great all dressed in red and the Quidnessett Country Club was beautiful! All the families really enjoyed the event and our advisors were very proud of us. Many of the girls went home with great prizes such as kickboxing packages or a round of golf for their dad! Our next fundraiser that is coming up is the King of Hearts. This is a male beauty pageant that many of the fraternity boys participate in. There is a formal, talent, swimsuit and a casual part to the competetion. All the boys get into it and our house father and chef judge the competetion. It should we a lot of fun and we are looking forward to it!

Red Dress Gala 2

It is the final week before the Red Dress Gala and everyone is very excited. The final week means lots of preparations. It is my job to make the final rounds with the donation letters. It is important that we get enough donations for our fundraiser. Many of the girls are scrambling last minute to find the perfect red dress. We are all excited to see our parents and other family members who may attend. We have high hopes that the event will go well and everyone is working hard to pull it together. We have a lot to live up to and our advisers are watching us closely. Last years Gala was a success and we are hoping this years will be even better.

I bought the perfect dress today- on sale too! Looking forward to Saturday..2 more days!

Valentine's Day Weekend

This past friday PIKE and Alpha Phi had a social together. Unfortunately there was a low turn out due to the three day weekend. Many of us girls decided to go home for the weekend to take advantage of no class on Monday for President's Day. I decided to go back to CT for the long weekend. I heard the social was a lot of fun and I wish I could have been there. PIKE is a popular fraternity within our sorority. Hopefully there will be more socials with them to come. All the sisters have to take turns driving to each social. The groups are split up into the P group, H group, and the I group. The P group was assigned to drive to the PIKE social and many of the girls in the P group went home for the weekend which caused a bit of controversy. Nobody would volunteer to drive. There was no chapter this week because of no school on Monday. Dues are also due this week and if you don't get them in on time you can't attend this weeks social. ZBT is the upcoming social for the week and i'm looking forward to it!

Greek Week 2010

We recently found out the greek week pairings at the basketball game on Saturday for Greek Week 2010. Everyone was very excited to hear that we have been paired for ZBT. ZBT has a good greek week reputation and we are hoping to win it all. AXO has been paired with FIGI, SDT has been paired with PIKE and Delta CHI and ADPI is with LAMDA. Greek Week consists of many different competitions between each team and can get very competetive. This is also something we look foward too. This year it will be held on April 16-23 and each night of the week is a different themed party. There is a lot of planning that goes into this whether it is picking themes or designing tee-shirts or choreographing a dance or practicing lip-sync. It is hard work but it is very worth it!!

We had our first Greek Sing practice last night. Everyone is so excited! Wish I could reveal what we will be singing- but you just have to wait and see!

Red Dress Gala

The 4th Annual Red Dress Gala is coming up on February 20th. This is our philanthopic event to raise money to the American Heart Association. I was recently asked to help plan for the event and I was also in charge of the invitations. I helped design and order all 550 of them. The Gala will be held at Quidnessett Country Club in North Kingstown. Many of the alumni will return for the special event as well as family and friends. Every year all the sisters where red dresses to show our support for the cause. We are hoping for a good turn out this year and we are counting down the days.