It is summertime! You know what that means-Time to put away all your winter clothing. Time to take out shorts, tanks, and dresses. Greek Nation can add your letters to a razor back tank or basketball shorts. Why stop there…add your line name and number. If you don’t want to add any words you can add artwork. Remember if you can imagine it, Greek Nation can design it!!!
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May 15th, 2012Fraternity gets the ball rolling for charity
May 11th, 2012Ordinarily posted http://www.bupipedream.com/news/10281/fraternity-ball-rolling-charity/
Members of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity have been rolling a giant ball around campus this week to raise money for charity.
The “Get on the Ball” charity event started on Monday and concluded on Saturday. While bouncing the 6-foot ball around campus, ZBT collected signatures for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Sponsors will donate money for every signature collected.
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals is a non-profit organization that raises money to benefit children’s medical issues. The organization donates to more than 170 children’s hospitals around the country, and covers a variety of issues.
According to Adam Cohen, treasurer of ZBT and a sophomore majoring in accounting this charity event is specific to the fraternity.
“This is the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity’s signature philanthropy event,” Cohen said. “Chapters nationwide use Children’s Miracle Network as their receiving charity.”
Sponsors including Mario’s Pizzeria, Monroe Muffler, Binghamton Hots, Sugar Mountain, Sall-Stearns and Cyber Café West, among other local businesses, pledged money for the charity. Alumni from ZBT also donated.
Dominick Matarrese, president of ZBT and a senior majoring in finance, detailed how local businesses sponsored the charity event.
“We gave businesses a few options to maximize potential donations,” Matarrese said. “Businesses could either donate any amount directly to the Children’s Miracle Network or donate 10 or 25 cents per signature based on how many signatures we obtained by the end of the week.”
ZBT has wanted to hold this charity event for a few years. Planning began halfway through this semester, and they decided it would be best to schedule it alongside Spring Fling.
Prior to the event, Matarrese told Pipe Dream that ZBT expects to hit its goal for this year.
They received 650 signatures and $700 so far in general donations, but this number does not include business sponsorship.
Cohen said the event was a good way to show the positive side of Greek Life.
“Especially within the past few weeks, the reputation of Greek Life has been tarnished and its credibility put into question,” Cohen said. “We are trying to remind Binghamton University of why we, as well as other fraternities and sororities, deserve to remain as a prominent institution in the college atmosphere.”
Anthony Foiles, vice president of ZBT and a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience, said ZBT plans to get the ball rolling again next year.
“This event is something that, as a chapter, we will continue to do annually, and wish to increase donations each year,” Foiles said.
Matarrese commented on the benefits of seeing the charity through.
“It’s just a good feeling when you put so much work into something and then finally see it come to fruition,” Matarrese said.
Celebrate Your Mother
May 9th, 2012Once a year we celebrate our mothers. We all come up with thoughtful gifts to give our moms that we know they will love. Have you thought about what you are going to get her this year? Greek nation has great gift ideas for Mother’s Day. Check out the jewelry section on Greek Nation’s website. You can also get your mom a personalize shirt. Get yourself a shirt saying how much you love your mom or P. mom. In fact mothers should be celebrated every day. You can always stop by Greek Nation and surprise your mom with a gift just because you want to give her a gift.
Added twist at Greek games promotes unity during competition
May 3rd, 2012Ordinarily posted http://wkuherald.com/news/article_5f5d18e2-8a71-11e1-92f1-001a4bcf6878.html
An army of painted faces, matching shirts and waving flags invaded McCormack Hall Lawn Thursday afternoon.
As a part of Greek Week, Greek organizations participated in Events Day, which consists of four games including a penny toss, an egg toss, a water relay and a five-part relay race.
Throughout each event, Greek organizations shouted cheers and chants for their teams to show support for their groups.
The first game was the penny toss.
Four Greek organizations competed at one time, with each team having four members.
The teams had to throw pennies one at a time into their individual buckets, trying to get as many as possible in their buckets within two minutes.
Each fraternity and sorority was asked to bring $10 in pennies for this event.
The money collected from the event will be donated to Potter Children’s Home, said Louisville senior DJ Bettinger, events day co-chair.
The penny toss was followed by the egg toss, which challenged two members of each team to toss an egg back and forth as the distance between the two increased until the egg broke.
“I was very nervous,” said Owensboro senior Will Blanford, one of the two members of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity’s egg toss team.
“I’m anticipating when the egg is going to break,” she said. “It usually goes on forever.”
The water relay came next, with three sororities and four fraternities competing at a time.
Each participant of the four member teams had to run to a bucket and fill a sponge with water, then squeeze that water out into their team’s bucket.
Mount Washington sophomore Dave Pusey, a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity’s water relay team, said the hardest part of the relay was trying not to slip.
“There was water all over the place,” he said. “It made it slick.”
The intensity built until the final game, which was a five-part relay race that included a tire run, ropes crawl, a sack race, dizzy bat and a 40-yard dash.
The relay was also had an added surprise because each 10-member team was comprised of members from two or three fraternities or sororities, instead of having all 10 members from the same Greek organization.
Teams were created this way to promote Greek unity, Bettinger said.
“This is one of the more cut-throat events,” he said.
Fraternities and sororities were not made aware of the mystery until prior to the relay.
“It was really unexpected because we had practiced with all ten girls,” said Louisville sophomore Hannah DeSpain, an overall coach for Phi Mu sorority’s Event Day teams and a member of the relay team.
The sororities and fraternities who finished in the top three for Events Day will be revealed at Convocation, with each group receiving points for their overall Greek Week point totals.
Bags…Bags…Bags!!!!
May 1st, 2012Quiz time….what is something that almost everyone leaves the house with? Did you think of a bag? You can be a student, professional, or just running errands, we all normally have a type of bag with us. It can be a gym bag, a book bag, a tote bag, or even a laptop case bag. Greek nation has over 15 different types of bags for you to choose from and personalize. You can personalize it with your Greek letters or just add your name. Whatever you want to do to it…Greek Nation can make it happen. Why not spoil yourself or someone else and get a bag. We all can use a bag…stop by Greek Nation’s website today and order one today.
Earth Day…Keeping it Green
April 18th, 2012We only have one Earth so lets take care of it!!! Greek Nation can help with any request you have to keep things green with your order. Greek Nation can get you eco- friendly apparel. Customize the organic recycled cotton tote bag. You can also get Men and women organic shirts in long sleeve or short. You can also get an organic V-neck shirt. If you want to order any of eco-friendly items just call the office 847.441.6625 or email us sales@greeknation.com and ask our green products. Lets help the world become a greener place one order at a time.
It’s all about Jackets
April 17th, 2012The weather is getting warmer. It’s time to get out your coach jacket. If you do not have a greek letter coach jacket Greek Nation can make you one. In fact you can pick from over 25 different jackets. Maybe it is time to get a varsity jacket. Everyone wants a varsity jacket and Greek Nation has the best prices. Greek Nation has jackets with hoods, or without hoods. Jackets with buttons or if you prefer zippers Greek Nation has that as well. You can satin jacket. You can even get a split satin jacket with two colors. Get a one for yourself or give someone a nice gift. You can just get your letters on it or better yet personalize it. If you can imagine it, Greek Nation can design it! Check out Greek Nation’s jacket section.
Greek Nation Combos
April 10th, 2012Have you been on Greek Nation website lately? Did you know Greek Nation has 8 different combos to offer you? There is the Iron Combo which includes a long sleeve shirt and a coach jacket. If that isn’t what you are looking for maybe you would like the Gold Combo? The Gold Combo includes a shirt and satin jacket. If you are feeling a daring then try the Gold Combo. It includes a shirt, hoodie, and satin jacket. There are still five other combos for you pick from. There is something for everyone. Just take a look.
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Sorority’s ‘House Mom’ Finds Greek Life Defies Stereotypes
April 5th, 2012Ordinarily posted http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2012/03/12/sorority%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98house-mom%E2%80%99-finds-greek-life-defies-stereotypes
Amy Nichols grad never got a taste of Greek life in college. At Brigham Young University-Hawaii, there are palm trees and sandy beaches, but not sororities.
When Nichols became house director of Cornell’s Kappa Delta chapter in October, she expected what she said any non-sorority girl might expect: snooty cliques and hierarchies.
“There’s this paradigm that sororities are drinking clubs and everyone goes out all the time. Not at all,” Nichols said. “I want my future daughters to be in Kappa Delta.”
According to Nichols, the Kappa Delta women’s sisterhood defies that stereotype, offering each member a support system that Nichols said she loves to be a part of.
Nichols’ official duties as house director include keeping the sorority’s women safe, enforcing the house rules and ensuring that everything in the house works. Whether balancing finances or calling someone to fix a leak, Nichols described her job as “a lot of coordination.”
“There’s usually always something wrong,” Nichols said. “It’s kind of a joke about how many days we can go without the washers breaking down.”
Nichols’ role in the house, however, goes beyond handling logistics. To a house full of sorority sisters, she is a role model, friend and, according to Danielle DeBlasis ’14, a “mom away from home.”
“I love being that mom figure. One girl was really sick, and I ran up and held her hair while she was puking,” Nichols said. “Everyone needs a friend during vulnerable times.”
DeBlasis said that from doing yoga together in Nichols’ room to “smiling up a storm,” Nichols ensures that she is always there for anyone who needs her. Kristen Ewing ’14 added that within the first three days of Nichols’ arrival, Nichols knew every woman’s name and has not stopped knowing “everything about every girl in the house” since then.
The attachment is mutual; Nichols is currently planning her wedding with the help of her “41 new friends.”
“I love being a girl and being around girls,” Nichols said. “I’m engaged to the love of my life, and it’s just so fun to be able to tell the girls about all the plans and look up dresses.”
As a gift, one of the women made a frame for Nichols that said, in Kappa Delta colors, olive green and pearl white, “Kappa Delta House Mom” — to which Nichols added “and Dad.” Nichols’ fiancé, Kent Uber, will move into the house after they wed in July.
“None of us are at that stage in our lives where we’re getting married,” Ewing said, “so it’s kind of nice to live vicariously through her.”
Prior to coming to Ithaca almost two years ago, Nichols worked for General Mills, starting as a “muffin girl” in the assembly line and rising to become the company’s international project manager and coordinator. She worked during most of her time in school, taking classes at night or working from five to nine a.m.
Nichols said she has also traveled extensively: she spent one and a half years in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia on a church mission trip and has studied, interned and worked in countries including Cambodia, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Italy and India.
According to Annie Henderson ’14, who shares Nichols’ interest in agriculture and food security in developing countries, Nichols has been involved with a non-governmental organization called Food for Life Vrindavan. Nichols proposed a food security strategy that Food for Life accepted for implementation later this year. The plan includes a school nutrition program that will familiarize children with new vegetables and a program to train farmers on sustainable agricultural practices.
“It’s something she’s extraordinarily passionate about and really pours herself into,” Henderson said. “She has that amount of perseverance to just continually [work] towards things that will better people.”
Some of the women in Kappa Delta said that Nichols’ extensive travel and education have allowed her to help them find internships and explore their interests.
Great Ideas for Crossing Season
April 3rd, 2012It is spring time….you know what that means CROSSING SEASON. Do you have everything you need for your newest members? If not Greek Nation can help. Greek Nation can make all of your crossing shirts. Want to just get your organization’s letters on it…no problem. Want to get personalized crossing shirts with line names and ship name…Greek Nation can do that too. Maybe you want to get your neo a coach jacket and shirt… just check out the combos section of Greek Nation’s website. Make sure to check out the teekee section as well because everyone wants a teekee!!!!!
