Phi Delta Chi (Alpha Epsilon) at the University of Mississippi

Pledges

Pledge Service Project
By: Christy Bowling

Pledges are required to perform a service project develop their sense of responsibility to the public health. The pledges wanted to donate to the needy as their pledge service project. The Chamber of Commerce was contacted to get a list of organizations in Oxford. After looking over the list, the pledges settled on contributing to the Domestic Violence Project.

The Domestic Violence Project is an organization that provides battered women with emergency shelter, referrals, and counseling. This organization depends on contributions from the public in order to offer these services.

A clothes donation drive was planned for the week of March 13-17th. Signs were hung on bulletin boards in the halls and a cardboard box was placed in the lounge. A delivery was made to the organization on March 17th. Approximate 6 green garbage bags of items were donated. The box was left in the lounge in case there were more donations. The next week, an additional 5 green garbage bags were donated and delivered to the organization. Items donated included pants, skirts, shoes, shirts, coats and more for kids and adults. The clothes drive was a great success.

The New Pledges
By: Brian Kendrick

I can still remember the overwhelming events of the first day of orientation into the pharmacy school. Everyone was really nervous because all of the presenters kept talking about the differences now that we are in a "professional school." One of the primary events that took place was the introduction of pharmacy organizations. We listened to speeches and presentations about why we should join a particular group and their function in the school, ect. The final groups presenting were the three greek organizations, Kappa Psi, Kappa Epsilon, and Phi Delta Chi.

Kappa Psi came up to the podium and talked of their proud male heritage and of all of the faculty that are Kappa Psi Alumni. They insisted that they are the male fraternity in pharmacy at Ole Miss. Next KE presented how they are the counterpart to Kappa Psi, the pharmacy sorority. Finally, a single representative for Phi Delta Chi made her way up to the podium and began to speak. She talked not about Phi Delta Chi's members of the past, but about the ones here now and the activities they do.

Despite the fact that she was the last speaker of the day, Dre made an impact on at least part of that group. When it was time to rush, although KE and Kappa Psi got a very large portion of the greek-bound students, myself and 11 of my classmates chose to pledge Phi Delta Chi. We were welcomed into the group with open arms and none of us has ever regretted it.

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