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Chapter Life: Noteworthy Activites

Every year, chapters report their most noteworthy activity for the year in the Chapter Annual Survey. These activities are listed here for other chapters seeking ideas and inspiration. Use the keyword checkboxes to filter activities by type or occasion, or click on the headers to sort the list by year, school, or state.
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Details2012 Alfred University NY Our most popular activity remains our Literary Costume Party (at which we also induct new members), held around Halloween. Students enjoy dressing as literary characters and authors, and trying ...
Details2012 Alma College MI We have a Spring party every April, where we recognize faculty and say goodbye to our seniors. We usually get a turnout of about 35-40.
Details2012 Adelphi University NY We will be holding a dramatic reading of a student's play that won the departmental award in drama in 2011. This will be the second annual dramatic reading that Alpha Lambda Chi has staged.
Details2012 Armstrong Atlantic State University GA President Paris Ross organized an event celebrating the renovation of the English Department's building. At that event, called the Bon Voyage Party, members were allowed, encouraged even, to def ...
Details2012 Augustana College (SD) SD We held a Paradise Lost reading marathon in November 2011, reading PL from beginning to end over a 12-hour period.
Details2012 Azusa Pacific University CA Our chapter hosted a Poetry Slam during the Fall 2011. We had nearly 100 students in attendance in addition to English department faculty. We had poetry readings and spoken word as well as music ...
Details2012 Belhaven University MS The chapter sponsored a local well-known writer/story teller who presented "An Evening with Flannery O'Connor," in which the local writer portrayed O'Connor. The event was held on campus and ope ...
Details2012 Birmingham-Southern College AL For our Halloween on the Hilltop school event children who cannot safely trick or treat in their neighborhood were invited to trick or treat on our campus. We bought books and had the kids fish ...
Details2012 Brewton-Parker College GA The English department recently hosted three students’ Senior Thesis Presentations on Friday, April 13th. Following the completion of their capstone papers embodying the culmination of their edu ...
Details2012 California State University, Chico CA This year we organized a trip for members and interested parties on campus to take a trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for a three-day three-play special group deal. Twenty students attend ...
Details2012 Bucknell University PA Poetry reading at local senior living center.
Details2012 California State University, Bakersfield CA Sponsored author visit for First-Year Experience Program common reader. 2000 people attended the author event.
Details2012 Chatham University PA On October 1, 2011 Alpha Delta Lambda hosted our second annual literacy conference which featured a faculty panel, a presentation by Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council, and 21 undergraduate and ...
Details2012 Cheyney University PA An Alpha Nu Rho alum and current law school student gave a presentation to Cheyney University students on his journey from Cheyney University to law school and on what it takes to be a successfu ...
Details2012 Christopher Newport University VA Game Night: attracted 30 English majors for dinner and literature-based games.
Details2012 Coastal Carolina University SC Every Year the Chi Rho Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta sponsors the Banned Book Week at Coastal Carolina University, holding public readings and raising awareness about the threat of censorship over ...
Details2012 Misericordia University PA Our area was devastated by floods in August 2011; the damage included several public and school libraries. Our chapter had a book drive in the fall during which we collected over 1200 books to d ...
Details2012 College of the Ozarks MO We co-sponsor an annual GramSlam competition. The other sponsor is the Center for Writing and Thinking. Many of the CWT student workers are also Sigma Tau Delta members. All students are invited ...
Details2012 Dakota State University SD Students created an online version of the the chapter's literary journal: New Tricks.
Details2012 Clemson University SC Our induction ceremony in the Spring was part of a reception for faculty and students. In preparation for this reception, the chapter sponsors solicited involvement from the faculty of the whole ...
Details2012 East Central University OK Our Chapter hosted its Third Annual Literary Art Gallery in conjunction with the Creative Writing Festival at our university. Students and other writers from around the region submitted the firs ...
Details2012 Edinboro University of Pennsylvania PA We invited performance poet Katie Daly to our campus. She had two readings and one workshop for the entire campus.
Details2012 Elizabeth City State University NC The Iota Nu Chapter's single most noteworthy activity has been its renewed participation in the Better World Books Drive. The chapter has not participated for several years and is proud to revi ...
Details2012 Eureka College IL Organized the First (annual?) Visionaries of Literature: Young Poets Award competition, held in conjunction with the (first annual) Eureka College Literary Festival, in February. More than 100 h ...
Details2012 Florida Atlantic University FL Two creative writing readings, with readers from faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates annually.
Details2012 Florida Southern College FL One of our members is working on an oral history project featuring retired nurses.
Details2012 Fort Hays State University KS We organized and hosted the High Plains Fall Gathering in Red Cloud, Nebraska, on September 23-24, 2011. The event drew 35 students and faculty from 7 colleges and universities in our region, an ...
Details2012 Franklin Pierce University NH We particularly like our Jumpstart Read for the Record participation and activity where we had a "celebrity" reader join us for a reading of Llama Llama Red Pajama in early October
Details2012 Georgetown College KY Our students completed their second novel for NaNoWriMo this year (they wrote their first one in 2010).
Details2012 Georgia State University GA We co-sponsored a social event, meet and greet, and appreciation for Faculty with the Graduate English Association (GEA). We raised awareness of Sigma Tau Delta-Omega Iota Chapter across our dep ...
Details2012 Harding University AR We traveled as a group to Little Rock to see a production of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre in January.
Details2012 Johnson C. Smith University NC Our single most noteworthy activity, which was awarded a 2012 Sigma Tau Delta Project Grant, was titled “Awakening the Soul of the Story Within.” Using this year's convention theme and common re ...
Details2012 Kansas State University KS Banned Books Week Awareness read-out and t-shirt/button sales
Details2012 Kansas State University KS Campus Wide Lending Library for K-State Book Network's Common Reader: David Eggers' Zeitoun.
Details2012 Kent State University OH Members conducted a food drive and a poetry reading for a homeless shelter for veterans.
Details2012 Illinois State University IL Our annual Live Poets' Night was a great success this year with a more diverse group of members than in the past, both in terms of ethnicity and undergrads and grads. Everyone read a poem by a L ...
Details2012 Illinois Wesleyan University IL The annual MUSE undergraduate literary conference: a day-long event with a featured keynote speaker, special panels on graduate school and library studies, and student paper sessions.
Details2012 Indiana University of Pennsylvania PA During the spring of 2012, our chapter hosted two screenings of the new film, Miss Representation, which discusses the under-representation and misrepresentation of women in the media. Followin ...
Details2012 Iowa State University IA We sponsored a "Mingle and Mocktails" party for faculty and students at which most of the student groups connected with a large English department introduced their members, activities, and purpo ...
Details2012 Houston Baptist University TX Our spring initiation functions as English/Writing majors night and is the venue where the winners of the writing contest read their winning stories and poems.
Details2012 Illinois College IL Members hosted a Harry Potter Trivia night - very popular.
Details2012 Lander University SC Hosted a giant used book sale that promoted reading on campus and raised $200 for a local elementary school's book fund.
Details2012 Lee University TN During March Madness, we do a Tournament of Books/Poets, where we pit books versus one another and poets versus one another. Faculty members write anonymous evaluations of the match-ups and sel ...
Details2012 Lee University TN During March Madness, we do a Tournament of Books/Poets, where we pit books versus one another and poets versus one another. Faculty members write anonymous evaluations of the match-ups and sel ...
Details2012 Lesley University MA We had Augusten Burroughs as the keynote speaker for our induction ceremony in late March; we partnered with the alumni office and had about 160 people in the audience.
Details2012 Lewis University IL Board game night featuring language and literary based themes
Details2012 Liberty University VA The Zeta Tau Chapter of Liberty University held a local literary conference on March 30 in which about 50 of our own students and students from 4-5 other colleges in the area participated as pre ...
Details2012 Louisiana Tech University LA Held the Sixth Annual Shakespeare Birthday Festival in our Shakespeare Garden (maintained as a service project by the Rho Gamma Chapter) and attracted several hundred people, including 30 junior ...
Details2012 Mansfield University PA Our chapter paired with the campus' Poetry Society to make t-shirts for English department majors and professors.
Details2012 Marian University, IN IN Our students put together a poster presentation about banned books during Banned Books Week.
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