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Courtesy of the Panhellenic Sorority
The Panhellenic Sorority is celebrating their new members’ recruitment Friday through Sunday via Microsoft Teams.
The three-day event will give prospective members the opportunity to learn more about eight different sororities history, missions and benefits. Students will discover all eight of their NIU sororities: Alpha Phi, Alpha Sigma Alpha, Delta Gamma, Delta Zeta, Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc, Sigma Lambda Gamma, Sigma Lambda Sigma and Sigma Sigma Sigma.
Carson Kemper, panhellenic vice president of membership and outgoing officer, said the Panhellenic Association is making efforts to include sororities.
“Panhellenic Association was founded on four values: friendship, leadership, scholarship and service,” Kemper said. “We try to make a community out of all eight of our chapters to uphold those values and support one another to not feel that the sororities are individual.”
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DeKALB – People Organizing Weekend Empowerment Retreat, or POWER, is hosting a virtual event about engagement in social justice Jan. 22 through Jan. 24 via zoom.
The event, sponsored by the U.S. Student Association and the Center for Black Studies, will cover activism and help students develop leadership skills and empower their voices. The three-day weekend retreat is dedicated to lessons for anyone with experience in participating in social justice events. Students will raise their skills in community organization. Participants will learn how to create spaces for culturally specific planning while adequately becoming allies and collaborators, according to the POWER website.