UConn LifeTimes - March 2016

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Page 1: Greek Week Schedule Page 2: HuskyTHON 2016 Recap Page 3-4: Arête Awards Page 5: Staff Submissions Page 6: Upcoming Events/ Founder’s Day Please submit all future LifeTimes submissions to: student.3591@ad.uconn.edu

HuskyTHON raised a record-breaking $716,394.58 for the kids! Congratulations to the management team, dancers, volunteers, and everyone else who supported and donated to HuskyTHON this year!

Congratulations to this year’s Arête Award winners!

Excellence in Academic Achievement Beta Theta Pi Outstanding Sorority Greek Scholar Christina Jiang–Kappa Phi Lambda Outstanding Fraternity Greek Scholar Christopher Bruno– Sigma Phi Epsilon Excellence in Recruitment and Retention Sigma Phi Epsilon Outstanding Alumnus/ Alumna Teri Chung– Kappa Phi Lambda Greek Emerging Leader of the Year (Fraternity) George Morgan Jr– Lambda Theta Phi Greek Emerging Leader of the Year (Sorority) Kaitlin Jenkins– Pi Beta Phi Lindsay L. Sell Panhellenic Award Miranda Jang– Pi Beta Phi Excellence in Community Impact Kappa Phi Lambda Excellence in External Relations Lambda Alpha Upsilon Living the Ritual Award Ryan Leonard– Gamma Phi Beta Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion Kappa Phi Lambda

(continued) Excellence in Member Development Alpha Kappa Lambda Excellence in Wellness & Safety Beta Theta Pi Outstanding Advisor Chelsea Cichocki– Pi Beta Phi Outstanding Sorority Greek Senior Alexis Egan-Pi Beta Phi Outstanding Fraternity Greek Senior John Peters Sigma Phi Epsilon Outstanding Council Officer Kenyi Silva– Intercultural Greek Council, Lambda Alpha Upsilon Fraternity, Inc. Outstanding Fraternity Chapter President William Oldach– Sigma Phi Epsilon Outstanding Sorority Chapter President Sarah McManus– Kappa Phi Lambda Excellence in Chapter Operations Beta Theta Pi Most Improved Chapter Phi Gamma Delta Greek of the Year Avery Moses– Pi Beta Phi Chapter of the Year Kappa Phi Lambda

I am so excited for this year’s Greek Week and to be patterned with Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Sigma Phi, Kappa Phi Lambda, and Iota Phi Theta. I know that Team One is going to crush the 80s theme and bring home the win. The Greek sing performance is coming along great, so the other teams better watch out. It has been amazing getting to know the other organizations on the team and I am looking forward to seeing all of the other teams’ performance at Greek Sing and the pageant.

Good luck to everyone!

Next week Alpha Kappa Lambda is hosting their 3rd annual “These Hands Don’t Hurt” tabling event at the Student Union. Donate $1 to take the pledge against domestic violence and place a hand on our pledge wall that will be proudly displayed in the Union for the duration of the week. Kristian Schif, the philanthropy chair of AKL had this to say about the event: “With this event, we seek to continue our philanthropic ventures with the Women’s Center by raising money for the Violence Against Women Prevention Program; a program that aims to create a safer campus environment by educating its students about safe relationship practices.

We look forward to seeing you all there because It’s On Us to end domestic violence.” Tabling is April 4-8 from 10:00am – 4:00pm and all proceeds will be donated to the Violence Against Women Prevention Program here at the University of Connecticut.

-Jacob Mabee FSL Intern

Theta 5K Kappa Alpha Theta is hosting their 4th annual Theta 5K on Sunday April 10th at 12pm on Fairfield Way. Special prizes include gift cards from Dog Lane Café, Gansett Wraps, Blaze Pizza and more! All proceeds raised from the run will go towards their philanthropy Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA).

9th Annual ZBT Car Smash Zeta Beta Tau is having their 9th annual Car Smash Tuesday, April 12th from 9-4pm on Fairfield Way. Come relieve stress from this semester and smash a car. The cost of smashing the car with a sledgehammer is $1 for 3 hits and, $5 for 3 minutes, or $60 to sign up an organization for 3 hits per member. All proceeds go to the Christian Klorczyk Finance Scholarship. To sign up your organization email jordan.warren@uconn.edu

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