beta xi Beta Xi has had a busy year. Our chapter has participated in many events, including Winter Carnival, and hosted a benefit yard sale .Winter Carnival , a local tradition up here at Michigan Tech, is a festival where we create snow statues, participate in winter-themed events, and unite as sisters to promote Greek life. This year our statue with the theme "Thousands of Pages Unfold in the Wintery Cold" took first place. Winter Carnival is always a lot of fun and a great way to show the positives of Greek life. We also took first place in the women's division of broomball, though Delta Upsilon beat us in the all campus finals. Broomball is like hockey but in tennis shoes with duct-taped brooms for sticks.You run around on ice after a tiny blue ball and score the same way you would in regular hockey. It's a little injury inducing, but it's a great experience . Over the summe r, our in-house sisters decided to hold a yard sale/bake sale to benefit the American Cancer Society.We ended up teaming up w ith a local sorority, Alpha Delta Alpha, and we collected hundreds of items.We even had an article posted about us in the local paper, the Daily Mining Gazette. The sale was by donation, so people could pay whatever they could afford . All in all it was a huge success-jointly we raised $1 , I 00, which we split between the two organizations.The sale would not have been so successful without the help of one of our PNMs, Kay McMahon . She helped with a lot of the donation collecting and even got JCPenney to donate free haircuts that were raffled off.The sisters of Beta Xi have grown both as a sorority and as individuals. We look forward to another amazing year.
beta tau The Sisters of the Beta Tau Chapter had a wonderful spring 20 I I semester and are anticipating the new Fall semester. In May, Beta Tau performed community service at the Wish Project, an organization that provides millions of dollars in free furniture, clothing, and baby goods to more than 5,000 needy families in the Merrimack Valley area per year. The sisters also had a great time at our Yellow Rose Formal in early May, where we had fun dancing, socializing with alumnae, and enjoying a delicious dinner. A few sisters also participated in Relay for Life alongside many of the other Greek organizations on campus. The walk is from about 3 p.m. one day until 6 a.m. the following, and it raises money for the American Cancer Society. The end of the semester welcomed seven new sisters, who became the Gamma Alpha class. Overall , the semester was quite successful. The fall semester will bring Beta Tau's most popular philanthropy event, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes. This event benefits women in crisis and victims of domestic violence.Walk A Mile in Her Shoes is usually walked by men, who tough it out wearing heels on their milelong walk. The event is always a lot of fun, and this year will certainly be no different!
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