The Cal Epsilon Chapter encourages its members to share pictures of their members demonstrating one of our pillars, scholarship. Scholarship is often overlooked in the fraternity after the initial invitation to join and so the officers like to capture members demonstrating scholarship and share these highlights with others. All members are encouraged to send picture of themselves, or other members, participating in an activity that encompasses a pillar or two to a member of the officer team. ...

For a month now, the Puerto Rico Chapter of Alpha Zeta has been giving a friendly hand to the Sociedad Americana del Cancer de Puerto Rico (American Society of Cancer in Puerto Rico)  by selling items in preparation for the march against breast cancer, as a fundraiser for patients and survivors of breast cancer. We have been selling T-shirts, caps, bracelets and pins in the shopping center Mayaguez Town during the Thursdays from 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM. On Thursday 18th of September and October ...

   After one of the pledge meetings, the pledges stayed in the meeting room and had a paddle making party. Each pledge is required to complete a paddle and obtain various signatures from the deans, the officers, and active and alumni members.    The pledges can decorate their paddles however they want, but as an incentive, the best decorated paddle will receive an award at the induction ceremony and a prize. Some of the pledges painted their paddles, while one pledge, Stephen Myers, used a ...

Each new member of our chapter receive both a guy and girl big to guide them throughout the pledging process and to help act as both a mentor and friend. This is a special tradition to our chapter. The bond between bigs and littles is continually reinforced throughout the pledge period as bigs help their littles with their events and tasks. Big/little reveal is always a very exciting night for our house! Everyone in our chapter comes together to watch the fun event. The unsuspecting new ...

  After Tuesday's pledge meeting and Chapter, a group of pledges and current brothers headed out to Tijuana Flats for Taco Tuesday to enjoy a fun family dinner! Pledges got to bond over this social while eating some delicious tacos. Brothers got to socialize with pledges and talk about the upcoming Big/Little reveal. The pledges brainstormed ideas for socials, such as going out shopping for their costume for Big/Little. It was a delicious time!  

The Florida Chapter's Fall Pledge Class held their first service project, organized by their service chair Maya. A group of pledges headed out to our adopted road in Gainesville to clean up the trash on the road. They spent two hours of the afternoon on a beautiful day beautifying the community. Thank you for all your help! We're excited to see future service projects from the pledge class.  

As one of the requirements for pledging, each pledge is required to attend at least five hours of social events. One of these events was the CALS TailGATOR. During the Saturday of University of Florida's home game against LSU, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences hosts a Tailgate event in the O'Connell Center, where CALS students eat Hills BBQ for free and participate in the various activities, such as corn hole, playing with animals, and a silent auction. The Alpha Zeta table held ...

  Before every pledge meeting, I like to plan a fun, but quick ice breaker. One ice breaker we did was the post-it note game. Each pledge received a post-it note and had to write the name of a famous celebrity, or fictional character and stick it to someone else's forehead. They then had to walk around the room and ask yes or no questions to everyone else to figure out who they had. It was big fun mess, and it ended with one person left not being able to guess that they were Tom Cruise. ...

The pledge semester is an 8 week long process that kicked off Tuesday September 23rd for the pledges first meeting. At this meeting, I went over the new member education packet, or pledge manual, and explained all the rules and history for joining Alpha Zeta. The pledges also had an election for their Officer Team. The officers for the pledges mirror those in the Chapter, so that the pledges can familiarize themselves with how the Chapter conducts order of business. The pledge officers will ...

The Florida Chapter held Rush Week from 9/15 to 9/18. The week kicked off with an info session on Monday evening, followed by a tabling event Tuesday at CALS Kick-Off,  sand volleyball on Wednesday, and then game night Thursday. The events were very successful, and it was a great opportunity for prospective pledges and current Brothers to interact and get to know one another.  Game night was especially fun, because we all got to sit around and talk to each other, and laugh while we played ...