Ah! There you are, Greek life. This column marks the return of a spotlight on individual members of Millikin’s Greek life community. Each week I will interview a different Greek guy or gal doing something outstanding in their chapter, and offer special insights into the ever-growing Greek community.

The first ever Greek Spotlight is on Miss Adilene Ramirez. Ramirez is the current President, Sisterhood Chair, and Greek Relations Chair of Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc. Iota Delta Chapter. As President, Ramirez says she needs to keep everything organized and timely within the chapter.

She also meets bi-weekly with Millikin’s Greek Advisor, Nicki, and weekly with their Chapter Advisor to discuss different ways of hosting and setting up for events, and anything else that comes up. As Sisterhood Chair, Ramirez makes plans with her chapter to “do fun things together, and improve sisterhood bond.” And for Greek Relations Chair, Ramirez stays in contact with all the other presidents around campus to establish “exchange” events with other organizations. If that’s not enough, Ramirez is also the Secretary for the Multicultural Greek Council; ensuring the MGC presidents have information they need on other organizations.

Ramirez says her most important job is “making sure we are known.” When asked to elaborate, she continued, “We are not well known. There are a lot of people who don’t know who we are. We’re very small; we’re a chapter of four.”

A small chapter indeed. But Ramirez is confident that “it all kind of just comes together. Because if you keep the events organized, if you keep the different events updated with other people, then we’ll be known. And then that’s how we keep interest. And that’s how we stay on campus. That’s the most important and the most critical part.”

I then asked Ramirez to explain the reasons she feels her organization isn’t well-known. She said it’s “because we’re so small, and a chapter of four can only get so much across to the entire campus. And our process is very different [from IFC and PHC].”

Though they may be small, the Gammas are working tediously to get Millikin’s campus more aware of their presence here. “What we’re trying to right now,” Adilene said, “is just have events more known. But what I took on is, I’m co-sponsoring with the Latin American Student Organization (LASO), and I’m currently a member of that as well. Any events that they have, since they’re pretty well-known, they include us in it.”

The biggest events the Gammas host each year are for their philanthropy. The Pink Party in the Fall and Bras for a Cause in the Spring, all the proceeds of which go to breast cancer awareness and research. Other than those two, they hold co-sponsorships with other Multicultural organizations.

What Ramirez asks for from other students, whether they’re in Greek Life or not, is for support. “We just need support. That’s all we need. We would like to see better turnouts for events. We would like to see more people coming and supporting us. We do our best to go out to everyone else’s but we don’t often see that in return. And that’s our biggest issue right now. As the years have passed, I feel there has been less and less support from one another, and I would just like to see more Greek relationships and more people being friends. We should all be happy. We don’t need so much drama between this group and that group, or between this fraternity and that sorority and so on. Let’s all be friends.”