In preparation for the annual agricultural fair of our university “Cinco Días Con Nuestra Tierra” (Five days with our land”, Alpha Zeta picked ginger in Dr. Custodio’s house in Mayaguez on Sunday, March 15th from 8:30 to about 2:00 pm. Three members participated. They extracted the ginger, cleaned it and packed it to sell at the fair.

On December 1^st, after the period of the pledge process, finally the pledges were initiated to the fraternity. The activity was carried out on the Salón Tarzan on the UPR-Mayaguez Campus from 7:00 pm onward. We enjoyed delicious food, traditional to the upcoming Christmas in Puerto Rico. The directive and guests gave beautiful speeches and presented our new brothers and sisters. Afterwards, the pledges went through the initiation ceremony and officially became our new members.

Alpha Zeta visited the movie theater in Western Plaza in Mayaguez on November 24^th at 9:15 pm to watch The Mockingjay. Both current members and pledges assisted to the event and enjoyed the film. We experienced the highs and lows of the movie together, some members more than others, and also heard the comments of nonfans that assisted merely to fraternize. The nonfans thought, for some reason, that the whole movie was to happen up on a three, while there was a member that kept making faces at certain new characters in the sequel, though she would not explain why. All in all, e had a pleasant time and after watching the movie, we conversed about anything and everything late into the night.

A High School Student, Naomy Candelaria required subjects with experience in developing a garden and subjects without experience in developing a garden for her investigation of Puerto Rico Zero Waste Management. As agricultural students, Alpha Zeta members have experience in developing a  garden, and so some members volunteered to be such subjects. Naomy required us to give her our recycling material for a total of three weeks, once after a week of recycling and another time after two weeks of recycling. Afterwards, we were required to answer two different surveys via internet. On November 10^th, we handed over our first bags of recycling and on November 25^th we handed over our second bags of recycling. At about the same time, we answered the surveys that were sent through e-mail and finished our parts. Naomy’s investigation was completed successfully. She was even published in the newspaper El Nuevo Día.