Programming
					Awards Community Service Socials Athletics Brotherhood Events Awards 2011 Undefeated Salsa Classic Champions 2011 Senior Fraternity Man of the Year – Gabriel Hernandez 2007 Undefeated Salsa Classic Champions 2006 Greek Week Champions 2006 Emerging Leader Award for USFC - Michael Vega 2004 Founding Member of USFC 2000-2001 Outstanding Community Service Award from Aztlan Academy [top] Community Service Second Harvest Food Truck The second Wednesday of every month we report to Clyde Arbuckle Elementary School on the East Side of San Jose. Second Harvest Food Bank sends a truck with vegetables and fruits to give out to local families. We set up the tables and hand out the food to every single family until we run out of food. Every month more families come to the event. We are very close to feeding 100 families with fresh produce every month. Mesa Verde Project Sacred Heart Community Service Center started the project in September 2009 and we have helped ever since. The first event we installed raised bed gardens in local, low income homes. In October of the same year we went back to the homes and helped plant seeds for vegetables and fruits. We continue to go to the homes every October and April to plant new vegetables and fruits. The goal of the program is to give low income families their own gardens to grow their own foods, and establish a community bond by giving their neighbors any leftover vegetables their gardens produce. Dia De Los Muertos Carnival Sacred Heart hosts a carnival every year for Dia De Los Muertos. This is a Mexican holiday where family and friends pay tribute to the day and set up altars to show them that they still remember about them. We help out in the carnival by setting up for the event, running the carnival games kids play, and cleaning up after the event. Aztec dancers and folklorico groups also participate in the event adding their history to the carnaval. Adopt-A-Classroom Every December, in collaboration with Sigma Omega Phi Sorority, we adopt a classroom on the East Side of San Jose that is missing the basic school supplies. We ask for a wish list and get as many of those supplies as possible. We go and do an Arts & Crafts activity with the students the day we deliver the supplies and talk to them a little about the importance of school and get them thinking about college. Adopt-A-Family Along with Adopt-A-Classroom, we also adopt a family with the ladies of Sigma Omega Phi. We choose a family that is having trouble meeting their basic needs. We adopt them and ask them for a list of things that they need and a wish list from their children for the holiday season. Our main objective every year when having this event is to assure that the family we adopt can forget about their problems for a moment and enjoy the holiday season with their family. Making Strides Against Cancer Every October we participate in the Making Strides Against Cancer walk in downtown San Jose. We fundraise for the event and host workshops regarding cancer. We want to do everything we can to help fight cancer, and we know every little counts. Grant Boys We mentor fifth grade boys at Grant Academy Elementary School. The school is located in a gang influenced area, and the kids get to see its activities every day. The school only has one male teacher, so they are not used to being around males. They do not have a positive male role model as either their dad has never been part of their life or he uses alcohol/drugs in front of them. We go in to help them out in school and to show them the importance of staying in school and continuing on to college. On top of these community services, we also do other events that come up throughout the years. The events above are the ones that we continue to do year after year. [top] Socials We have socials with other organizations on campus and in other campuses in the area. A social consists of two organizations getting together to either play games or hang out. Below are some pictures of the socials we have had in the last couple of months. [top] Athletics Salsa Classic The last weekend of April we participate in Salsa Classic. It’s a sports tournament in which fraternities and sororities in our council play against each other. The fraternities compete in basketball, football, and soccer while sororities participate in soccer, basketball, and volleyball. The organization with the most wins at the end of the tournament wins and has bragging rights for the rest of the year. [top] Brotherhood Events We often have dinners with our alumni to catch up on our life and to get advice from them. We do not get to see them as often as we wished because of their busy lives but they do make some time every so often to hang out with us and see how we are doing. [top]