| New Member Education Fall 2010 |
| Women going through Panhellenic formal recruitment will receive their bids on Bid Day, which is Monday, September 13, 2010. After bid distribution, new members will spend the day participating in sisterhood events with their respective chapters. Following bid day, new members will begin their new member education period, which lasts from bid day until their chapter's initiation, and these education periods vary in length depending on each national organization's policies. Each chapter has a different new member education program to help incorporate the new members of their chapter to know its policies and develop friendship and sisterhood with its active members. Many chapters include a chapter retreat as part of their program. Every new member education program's goal is to educate its members of its chapter's national policies and history, to encourage sisterhood amongst new members, to encourage sisterhood between new and active members, and to smoothly incorporate its new members to the University. |
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| SISTERHOOD IDEAS (individual chapter events or sister sorority events) |
** REMINDER: sister sororities must do ONE social event and ONE service/panhellenic event **
I. Social Activities/Outings
1. Movie Night – rent DVDs, provide pizza, popcorn, cookies...
2. Go out to the Movies – arrange for older members to pick up younger members (great ways to have the new members hang out with the older girls)
3. Sex and the City Marathons – be funny and play a game, like every time Carrie talks about shoes, Charlotte mentions 'true love', Samantha swears or Miranda rolls her eyes, have girls get up and trade places or eat a piece of candy (something fun along those lines —.)
4. THE OC night – order pokey sticks
5. Chapter Dinner – host dinner at your house for another chapter
6. Ice Cream Bar Night – build your own sundaes, you could be sneaky and depending on what toppings they choose people have to go around the room and tell stories (ex – if you choose whip cream you have to tell an embarrassing story —chocolate sauce – tell about your favorite memory regarding your sorority —.)
7. Game Night – play something like Catch phrase, do a scavenger hunt, clue race (set up clues that lead to destinations on campus that have next clue – first team to make it to final destination wins a gift certificate or a cookie cake —)
8. Ice Skating @ the UIUC Ice Arena
9. Cookout/BBQ/Picnic – frat park or at chapter house, even make it a block party!
10. Spa Night – pedicures, manicures, makeup tips, hair styles
11. Bowling @ the Union
12. Pumpkin Picking/Apple Orchard outing - arrange for older members to pick up younger members (great ways to have the new members hang out with the older girls)
Curtis Orchard and Pumpkin Patch 3902 S. Duncan Champaign, IL 61822 (217-359-5565)
13. Sporting event – support your chapter at an Intramural game, join an intramural team
14. Progressive Dinners – have the members with apartments each cook a course
15. Dessert Party – everyone bring a form of a delicious treat to share, get dressed up
II. Service Activities/Panhellenic Activities/Campus Activities
1. Participate in other chapter philanthropy events – with sister sorority do 2 joint teams
2. Volunteer Illini Projects – tutoring, environmental care, nursing homes, the website for the organization has an endless amount of ideas
www.volunteerilliniprojects.org or email vip@uiuc.edu
3. The University of Illinois Relay For Life
4. The University of Illinois Up Till Dawn
5. Crisis Nursery – help children with their Christmas shopping during the Holiday season
6. Adopt a Family – especially during the Holiday season, go shopping together
7. Krannert – go see a play, a choral concert, a musical, opera, etc —.
8. BGC Step Down show
9. Sporting Event – go see our #1 basketball team!! Or any other U of IL team game/match
10. Host a speaker – open to whole Panhellenic community or to your own chapters only
11. Care Packages – put together packages for the women studying abroad
12. Attend a Panhellenic Speaker
13. Valentine Card party – make cards for nursing homes
14. Faculty Dinner - invite a certain number of professors to dinner and have them honored
15. Drives - clothing, can collecting, pop taps —.make a large donation |
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