Such collaboration was demonstrated strongly in the spring during our first ever Greek Community Cleanup day. At this event, many chapters worked side by side for a common goal: cleaning up both Prospect Park and the 12th Street Approach of RPI, which was accomplished with great success.

Greeks also provided a number of volunteers for the FYE community service days. The Martin Luther King Day Communiversity event drew 75 percent of the participants from greek chapters, and in early November, 90 percent of RPI’s community service day volunteers were from a fraternity or sorority.

As a sign of things to come, there is an upcoming project which will involve President Jackson and the greek community coming together. This project will make the local neighborhoods much more aesthetically pleasing. In addition, it will help several elderly members of the Troy community who would be physically unable to fix up their own houses.

This semester, IFC Secretary Chuck Centrelli remade the entire IFC website. Features now include a philanthropy and community service database, so that the philanthropy chairs from individual chapters can very easily and quickly submit all their information into the database. At that point, it can be approved by the IFC vice president of philanthropy. Thanks to that database, about half the chapters were able to submit their philanthropy within two days of the announcement of the website.

The new website has greatly eased record keeping and may enable the IFC to win at least one of the Northeast Greek Leaders awards, which are presented to all IFC and Panhel chapters all around the Northeast.