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Chapter News From the Chapter President Chapter Spotlight: Tia Harper Sarah Sandberg Editor’s Note: Representing the chapter as Spotlight is legacy Tia Harper. A senior from Hello Sisters! the hometown of Wentzville, Missouri, Tia is pursuing her degree in Chemical Engineering and is set to graduate this spring. Tia has am thrilled to continue served the chapter as past Assistant Panhellenic I serving as the President Delegate, and was the ADPi House Manager of Sigma Chapter of while at Kansas State University. Tia has worked Alpha Delta Pi for the next part-time as a campus lab Student Researcher, month! I am currently a and has interned with Monsanto and Sigma- junior studying Political Aldrich. A member of AlChe – a Chemical Science and French at the Engineering group on campus – Tia hopes to University of Illinois. After almost a year of use her experience to work in the make-up and Presidency under my belt, it is bittersweet to fragrance feld. Read on to fnd out more! think that I will be passing on the baton soon. I have already had an incredibly rewarding What led you to join ADPi? part of is the research I did here on campus. experience working with my executive team I am a chemical engineer and worked in a and look forward to the positive improvements My sister is an ADPi alumna from St. Louis biochemical lab dealing with lantibiotics, we have begun to implement in our chapter. University and growing up I loved hearing which is a type of antibiotic not used in the Sigma Chapter had a very successful spirit her stories and seeing the pictures of her and United States currently. Bacteria have not been week and Formal Recruitment during the early her sorority sisters. When I chose to go to the found to become resistant against it yet, so I did parts of September! The Panhellenic Council at University of Illinois, I knew going through various tests at different conditions to see if this the University of Illinois saw record-breaking recruitment was a must as I didn’t know was in fact the case and how the certain type numbers enrolled in Formal Recruitment- just anyone initially and leaving my fve siblings of lantibiotic we worked with functioned best. shy of 1400 women! Our entertainment for was a big adjustment. I kept a very open mind our Open House round featured a few sisters during the process, but was very excited to see What are your career aspirations? doing a handclap routine to the tune of Anna ADPi on my bid card and can’t imagine my I want to work in cosmetic engineering. This Kendrick’s Cup Song, featured in the movie home away from home anywhere else. unfortunately is a Pitch Perfect! Our recruitment chairs learned of Have you enjoyed any special hard market to break this jingle at District Leadership Convention, excursions with your sisters? into, but I’m hoping when they stumbled upon sisters from Drake to eventually get University singing it in their hotel rooms! Yes, one memory sticks out in there. I fnd industry The decorations throughout the chapter house particular. My big diamond sister, dealing with food and refected our “Garden Party” theme, featuring Katie Haigh, did the Disney household products gold mason jar centerpieces, chalkboard door Internship program at Disney World incredibly interesting decorations, and fower garlands made of her second semester of her junior as well. I’ve always burlap hanging in the hallways. year. When it was bitterly cold enjoyed that side of On Bid Day, Sigma Chapter welcomed 52 in February, Jenna Josephs and I chemical engineering new Alpha members home to Alpha Delta Pi! decided to go visit her. We were able and as a child I would After waiting an hour in the rain, we fnally saw to get stand-by passes, got on a fight even take my mom our new Alphas running down Nevada Street, Friday, and came back that Monday. and older sisters’ overjoyed to see us waiting outside. With It was so fun to escape the cold, fy perfumes and mix brightly colored diamonds and signs for violet for the frst time, see Disney World, them together to sisters, seeing the look on all of my sisters’ and be reunited with my sisters in an Tia and big diamond sister, Katie create my own scent! Haigh watching the “Wishes” frework faces was priceless! We then served appetizers impromptu mini vacation. show on the last night in Disney. before decorating homemade cupcakes with What are you looking forward to frosting. After chapter photos across the most this year? street at Krannert Center for Performing Arts, I actually transferred to Kansas State the Xtension Chords, an all-male a cappella group on campus, came to serenade everyone. University my junior year, spent a Ranging from love songs to songs about the year there, and returned this fall. I was University of Illinois, this was defnitely the and am still so elated to be back with my sisters again and make more fun highlight of Bid Day! My favorite part of the semester so far was memories. Senior year is bitter sweet, our Kairos-inspired sisterhood event. For those but I’m defnitely most excited about of you who don’t know what this is, it is a peer- being able to spend time with all of led retreat geared towards building a stronger them before we graduate and are not community. These events feature fve speakers in such close quarters anymore. Tia with Two who all opened up about the diffculties they What type of work have you done classmates during the have faced in their lives, including family during your internships? Engineering Chapter (Continued on Page 4) The most interesting thing I’ve been a Open House.