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Hunger Cleanup

Carlie Campbell — 2012-04-21 08:00:00 -0500

To top off a great Greek Week 2012, we all gathered bright and early on Saturday morning to participate in Marquette's annual day of service, Hunger Cleanup. In teams of about 15, we traveled to different service sites around Milwaukee. Some women helped in a neighborhood cleanup, others readied a community garden for springtime while others baked dog treats for the local Humane Society.

Hunger Cleanup is always a great way to bond with our sisters while making a difference in the community. As my group picked up trash in the neighborhood around a local YMCA, we laughed with the Y staff and one another and worked together to beautify the neigborhood.

Goodbye, Greek Week!

Mandy Zachow — 2012-04-20 21:06:00 -0500

Today marks the end of a wonderful week filled with Greek fellowship, friendly competition, and sisterly bonding, but it was also a day still filled with many great Greek Week events! The afternoon began with a spirited finish to penny wars – girls were adding pennies up to the last second! The afternoon continued on with soccer. Sadie, Emily, Allison, Hilary, Kate, Emma, Shannon, CJ, Corinne, and Gabby led us to a strong third place finish! With a bye for the first game, the girls were pumped to play. They were tied with Alpha Phi for the entire game, but then in the last two minutes of the game Alpha Phi scored, placing Alpha Chi Omega in third place. Finally, Alpha Chis competed in the last Greek Week event of the week – the Greek Olympics. Alix, Shannon, Mandy, Rachel, Amaya, Emi, Bekah, Kara, Julie, and Caitlin with spotters Gina, Jel, and Emily started us off with the pyramid. After many time trials and lots of practicing, the pyramid team perfected the art of pyramid making and finished with a great time! Next was the obstacle course.

Kara started us off strong by spinning around a bat (with her forehead on top of it!), and after spinning, Kara had to run to Jel who then had to hula-hoop before running to Bekah who jump-roped until she could pass the baton to Emi who ran strong to the finish line! Next, Michelle, Fonz, Rose, Julie, Kayla, Alix, Mandy, Gabby, Emily, and Gina, with careful strategy and lots of love from Alpha Chis in the audience, led us to a victory in two tug-of-war battles!

Finally, Mandy and Jel finished off the Greek Olympics with the chocolate pour. Mandy laid on the ground with a cup on her forehead as Jel, blindfolded and with a bottle of Hershey’s chocolate syrup in her hands attempted to pour the chocolate into the cup. The wind was strong, making it difficult and a little messy, but with help from her sisters, Jel did manage to get a little bit of chocolate in the cup (but mostly all over Mandy’s face!)

Overall, Greek Week was a great success! All of the girls in Alpha Chi Omega are incredibly gifted in such a myriad of ways! Bringing all of these wonderful girls together with all of their amazing talents makes any girl proud to be part of a bond like that of Alpha Chi Omega. It was made clear this week especially that we are Real Strong Women, in every sense of the phrase!

Just Keep Swimming (And Spiking, And Quizzing ...)

Kara Chiuchiarelli — 2012-04-18 18:00:00 -0500

Wednesday evening our sisters suited up for some inner-tube Water Polo, stormed the court for Volleyball and shed some knowledge for Omega Bowl trivia night.

The ladies dove in for an intense semi-final round of water polo against the women of Sigma Kappa at the Rec Center. Audrey Wayne and Margaret "Fonz" Fonseca started on defense with Mandy Zachow at the goal, Michelle Hohenberger at midpool and BB May and Henna Manjee on offense. Despite some difficult play, BB and Michelle had some great breakaways and Mandy had some great saves in the goal. Audrey and Fonz had some great fun splashing around the pool while helping out their teammates. During the second half of play Cate Cusack and Henna switched off between defending the pool and the goal while Gabby Boyce, Victoria Truex and Shannon Rohn also joined in on the fun and Michelle and her long limbs stayed in the water to finish out the game with few points but many good laughs and second place overall.

Also at the Rec Center, the ladies of Alpha Chi hit the court and bumped, set and spiked their way to the quarter-finals. Captain Carlie Campbell led the women through some close games against Alpha Omega Epsilon, Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Phi. Also contributing to the fierce play were Maggie Bruckner, Aaren Wright, Kelly Rasmussen, Hilary Hungerford, Tin Tin San Ramon, Jenny Lisenfelt, Hannah Smith, Kaite Suhling, Rose Robinson, Bekah Vaughn, Ashley Nickel, Trupti Patel, Christy Zito and Marylena Lehocky. Vickie Lehman and Lauren Bronyarczyk aided the team from the sidelines with their coaching and training skills.

"We have some baller Freshmen volleyball players!" said Carlie Campbell, president.

Overall the women set and spiked their way to third place.

Also on Wednesday, Emily Hoffmann and Elizabeth LaRose showed off their brain power at Omega Bowl, the greek week trivia tournament based on Trivial Pursuit. After handling some difficult questions from the "1999 Genius Edition," the ladies ultimately played Alpha Xi Delta in a semi-final round and took third place overall.

Way to keep up the sportsmanship ladies! Alpha Chi Omega is currently vying for first place overall in Greek Week as we continue to battle it out in other sporting and wit competitions.

Are You Ready For Some Football?

Brynne Ramella — 2012-04-18 12:18:00 -0500

Yesterday, the Alpha Chis put on our eye black and stormed Schroeder Field to play a little football. With four games in a row, we had a tough schedule in front of us – but that didn’t stop us from winning it all! Our team consisted of Kirsten DeGuzman, Liezl Aluquin, Audrey Wayne, Kayla Raguse, Danielle Kirby, Maddie Smart, Danielle Cinkues, Meghann Rosenwald, Victoria Truex, Corinne Catalano, Aaren Wright, Shannon Miner, Emily Carton, and Jel Dickey. Shannon was a wonderful quarterback for our team and Jel provided a great energy for the team. Liezl and Aaren came in for the last game to give the team the extra boost we needed to clinch the win. A HUGE thank you to our ladies who were fantastic cheerleaders for our football players. Congrats to our team! I think the NFL is calling!

Annex Night!

Victoria Truex — 2012-04-16 23:23:00 -0500

Tonight was the second night of Greek Week and the Alpha Chis went into it feeling confident after a great Airband performance! Megan Garfield, Hilary Hungerford, Emily Hoffman, and Emma McGowen bowled their hearts out while Audrey Wayne, Liezl Aluquin, Kirsten deGuzman, Allison Webb, Carlie Campbell, Corinne Catalano, Jel Dickey, Danniella Banks, Danielle Kirby, and Victoria Truex dodged, dipped, ducked, and dove away for a third place finish in Dodgeball. Katie Rouch sang brilliantly in Greek Idol and BB May and Meghann Rosenwald hit the bullseye in darts. Sadie Ziesmer and Jackie Boratyn rocked the competition in pool and got first place. All in all, we had a great time competing tonight and are very excited for the rest of the week!

Dance with AChiO

Cara Koscher — 2012-04-16 09:53:00 -0500

“Dance, Dance, Da, Da, dancing in the dark”…and Greek Week 2012 is off!

Sunday marked the kick off of Greek Week 2012, as all of the chapters participated in the annual airband competition. Each sorority and fraternity had to come up with a five to seven minute dance routine while lip singing! These routines have been in the works for a number of months with each chapter working hard to perfect their moves! To accompany each dance routine is a theme; from sweet dreams to superheroes this year’s airband had it all! If you couldn’t guess the Alpha Chi’s were boogying on the dance floor this year, with neon print shirts and ribbons to match everyone wanted to Dance with AChiO! At the end of all the performances everyone waits for the results to be announced; now I know how those celebrities on Dancing with The Stars feel every week! Waiting with deep anticipation they finally called our name, THIRD PLACE! We were so excited, screaming, jumping and hugging, all of the hard work paid off and we could now enjoy our victory! I think the excitement is still running through my veins. As we dance our way to the next set of events, the Alpha Chi’s are looking mighty strong! You know what they say, the Alpha Chi’s that play together, stay together!

You can view the dance routine by copy and pasting this link into your web browser:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFRZmRK_JRw&feature=youtu.be

Finishing Strong!

Brynne Ramella — 2012-04-12 22:57:00 -0500

Since today was our last day of events this week, we have been working hard to promote the message of positive relationships throughout campus. Our bow sale may have ended today, but little reminders of Healthy Relationships week will remain at Marquette as buyers show off their purchases. Later in the evening, we hosted a self-defense class and finished off with a movie night at our house. We showed an episode of “Law & Order: SVU,” which was highly anticipated by our members. The week may be ending, but be sure to stick with us for one more event next week. This Wednesday, from 4-5 p.m., we will be having a Relationship Check-Up in the Raynor basement. Thanks for all the support this week!

Dodge Domestic Violence

Anna Peper — 2012-04-11 22:07:00 -0500

Dodge Domestic Violence is an annual dodgeball tournament that our sorority holds during Healthy Relationships week. Teams of 6 can sign up and compete in winning the "Dodgeball Champions" title. The tournament was held at the Rec Plex in Straz Tower at 6:30 pm. The first game was played by Alpha Chi Omega and Sigma Chi. Sigma Chi won the game in less than 15 minutes. It was a great event and all the proceeds went towards the Milwaukee Women's Center. Along with the dodgeball tournament, we continued our bow sale to raise money for the Milwaukee Women's Center as well.

Healthy Relationships 101 - a healthy start to your week!

Mandy Zachow — 2012-04-10 23:10:00 -0500

Today marks the beginning of one of Alpha Chi Omega’s most important philanthropy events on campus! Healthy Relationships week is full of events sponsored by Alpha Chi Omega as well as other organizations on campus that focus on defining what a healthy relationship is, raising money for the Milwaukee Women’s Center, and promoting domestic violence awareness. Tonight we started out the week with a Healthy Relationships 101 presentation in which students and sisters discussed the facets of a healthy relationship; the main components of a healthy relationship that we came up with were respect, trust, honesty, along with many more. Today we also began selling bows to raise money for the Milwaukee Women’s Center; we will continue selling bows throughout the week to help raise awareness for domestic violence.

Come Sail Away: Bid Day 2012

Cara Koscher — 2012-02-07 21:43:00 -0600

Ahoy there!

Oops sorry, I must have forgotten that Bid Day ended almost 2 weeks ago! It seems as though it was just yesterday that we sailed away with over 40 new members! Thats right, this year over 40 women are calling home to Alpha Chi Omega, and we cannot wait to welcome our new sisters into the bond.

If you couldn't tell already this years Bid Day theme was Come Sail Away! So naturally, we tied up our bows and laced up our Sperry's for one of our most exciting Bid Day's yet! With a stage lined with sea worthy props the sisters of Alpha Chi Omega were ready to welcome their newest members.

Bid Day reveal was as exciting as ever this year, one by one the girls unzipped their sweatshirts revealing their chapter's t-shirt as we all run up to get her, cheering and singing the whole way.

While Bid Day may be over the fun has just begun, with so many new member activities! These next four years you will spend getting to know your sisters new and old, cherish every moment because it doesn't last forever.

"Twenty years from now you will be more dissapointed by the things you didn't do than the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain

LITB,

Cara Koscher

Publications Chair

2011 Marquette Greek Award Results

Audrey Wayne — 2011-06-08 13:32:00 -0500

2011 was a very good year for the ladies of Alpha Chi Omega- Theta Omega. At Marquette's Greek Awards Ceremony Theta Omega received the following recognitions: Junior of the Year: Emily Hoffmann 4Year Dedication Award: Liz Judy Outstanding Involvement & Leadership 2011 Greek Week Champs (4th Consecutive Year) and the 2011 Chapter of the Year. Thank you to all of the sisters and friends of Alpha Chi Omega for making all we achieved possible. Love in the Bond, Audrey Wayne President 2011

College Lifestyles CEO Visits AXO at Marquette

Audrey Wayne — 2010-12-07 14:47:00 -0600

November 7, 2010 was a great day for Alpha Chi Omega at Marquette. We hosted Shelly Marie Redmond MS, RD, LDN, Executive Director/CEO of College Lifestyles at our program "Campus Cafe".

We could tell you about it, but why not let Shelly to you all. She wrote a great blog post about us on College Lifestyles! (P.S. the breakfast spot is the Broken Yolk!)

(Read the original article on College Lifestyles here)

College Lifestyles CEO Makes a Stop at Marquette University!

December 1, 2010 by Shelly Marie

Shelly Marie Redmond, MS, RD, LDN, Executive Director/CEO of College Lifestyles spread the word of good health and nutrition as the guest speaker of ,Campus Cafe: A Guide to Fighting the Freshman 15 and Eating for Energy, sponsored by the

lovely ladies of Alpha Chi Omega.

YAH! Just about to get started with the presentation

In Shelly’s words…..

‘I had such a wonderful time at Marquette. The ladies of Alpha Chi Omega were absolutely welcoming, lovely, and such a joy to work with. Before I even arrived, the ladies set up fabulous marketing and PR for the event.

The morning of the event, I went to breakfast at a DELICIOUS campus favorite (which it is embarrassing I can’t think of the name, probably because my French toast was so YUMMY it blocked my thought process!

After the event, I had a great conversation with some of the ladies on what else, sorority life!

To wrap up, I had a blast!

Thank you so much Alpha Chi Omega at Marquette! Always keep your wonderful spirit and personality!’

Shelly Marie Redmond, MS, RD, LDN is the Executive Director/CEO of College Lifestyles. She loves spreading the word of good health, classiness, and sisterhood!

We've Moved!

Audrey Wayne — 2010-08-27 22:50:00 -0500

The ladies of Alpha Chi Omega have changed their home address! On June 1st we were able to move into our LOVELY new home located at 931 N. 14th Street (between Kilbourn and State). 12 girls will be living in the new house, 8 single bedrooms and 2 doubles. The women of AXΩ are getting ready to make this new house a home with personal decorations and flair, and of course, Lyres! House Dedication Ceremony & Celebration will be held at our house, Sunday September 12th at 1pm. Hope to see you there!

Greek Awards 2010 Results!

Audrey Wayne — 2010-05-02 17:49:00 -0500

2010 proved to be a great year for Alpha Chi Omega at Marquette. For the Third Consecutive Year, we won the title of Greek Week Champs. It was a fun, invigorating week that brought our sisters closer together, our support on the sidelines was more impressive than our performance on the field/court/pool.

Also at Greek Awards, we had two sisters receive special distinctions. Kirsten De Guzman was awarded Sophomore of the Year and Claire Harvey was given the 4 years of dedication award. We are so proud of Kirsten and Claire!

Finally, Alpha Chi Omega received awards for Outstanding Leadership and Campus Involvement.

We're so proud and honored to have received these awards and can't wait to see what the 2010-2011 year will bring.

Great Work Ladies!

We're proud to be the red and green all day!

Congrats 2010 Mr. Omega Man & Contestants

Audrey Wayne — 2010-03-27 22:47:00 -0500

Alpha Chi Omega hosted their fourth annual Mr. Omega Man competition on Friday, February 12, 2010. Nine amazing gentlemen competed for the title from organizations all across Marquette's campus. Fisher Reynolds, a freshman representing The Naturals, was crowned Mr. Omega Man at the end of the show. Congratulations to Fisher and all of the wonderful contestants, and thank you for helping us raise over $450 for the Sojourner Family Peace Center