Have you ever seen the Ocean Spray commercial on tv? Well the Cornell chapter can tell you that's exactly what a cranberry harvest looks like! Over our fall break in October, 15 members from the Cornell Chapter visited an alumnus' cranberry farm in East Taunton, Massachusetts. It was our third consecutive year visiting his farm over break to help with their harvest...

The Florida Chapter's Fall 2011 Pledge Class held their first social which was their paddle decorating. Each pledge class has to complete a pledge paddle that consists of signatures from the deans of the college, officers, members and alumni, as well as their own pledge class. The paddle can be decorated however they choose...

At the 2011 Yam Jam on October 15^th, 8 brothers traveled to Johnston County and helped glean Sweet Potatoes. Gleaning is when you collect leftover crops that were not picked up when the farmers went through with the tractors. In order to find the sweet potatoes we had to dig with shovels or our hands. The Sweet Potatoes that everyone collected went to the local food shelter where they were distributed to different locations and different homes. It was surprising how relaxing digging in the dirt was. Everyone really enjoyed our ag-related service project that helped a lot of people who depend on the food shelters.

As one of our service projects this semester, 11 brothers went to the Wake County SPCA Food Pantry to volunteer our time to help with something they needed done. For two hours the brothers got to mark off the bar codes on dog food to prevent the people, who were getting a bag for free the next day, from taking them back to the stores and getting money from them. After the brothers finished the assignment that was given to them, they got to interact with the animals at the shelter until they had to leave...

The Penn State dairy science club created a video informing potential new students what Penn State Agriculture is all about.  One of the facilitators in the video is the Morrill Chapter’s very own, Rebecca Shaw. You can see her in the opening scene standing on the left of our lion shrine. There are also many Alpha Zeta Alumni in the video and eleven of us yelling D-sci at the end...

On Thursday, October 20th, members of Alpha Zeta Cal Epsilon had the opportunity to take part in a California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom event, titled San Francisco Farm Day. Read more...

This past Saturday (10/22), five members of our chapter went to Elmira, NY to help pack food boxes at the food bank. They spent the morning wrapping applesauce containers to prevent them from breaking in the boxes.

After our pledge event last week (10/20) where pledges were quizzed on information learned thus far in the pledge process, our pledges were surprised by receiving their Big Brother and Big Sister. Each pledge received a gift related to their particular lineage and photos of each pledge with their bigs were taken. Following the event was a night of good, fun fellowship!

As some of you may have heard, the president of Cornell University is really cracking down on the Greek system this year and as a result, the Greek system has had to be creative in the way different events are run, particularly when regarding recruitment. This semester, the Interfraternity Council (IFC) planned a Greek Preview Weekend where all fraternities had an open house event on Friday evening (10/14) and a smoker on Saturday (10/15) where freshman had the opportunity to visit houses and meet active brothers. Friday evening, our chapter planning a carnival which unfortunately had to be moved inside due to weather. Saturday we hosted a smoker that was sports themed. Unfortunately the events were not as well attended as we had hoped due to bad weather, but the actives who participated had a great time!

Every semester the Cornell Chapter hosts "Ag Day" on the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Quad. Our event this semester was held on 10/14. While Cornell may be the land grant university in our state, sadly many students do not even know that Cornell still has agricultural departments. We hold this event to both educate the Cornell Community, as well as to raise money for Tompkins County 4-H. Our event this semester was run as it has been in the past, with a fistulated cow for cow bingo, food, tractors, sheep, and campus agricultural organizations and clubs...