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Delta Zeta hosts pageant to help hearing impaired

By Amy Geldean | April 15, 2019

Delta Zeta held their 24th annual Dream Man and Greek Goddess pageant competition April 9 in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium.This philanthropy event raises money through admissions, penny voting and raffles for the Starkey Hearing Foundation, which works...

Valerie Spychala (left), senior athletic training major, and junior accountancy major Bridget McCaffery (right) practice for Tugs in the trenches at their house Wednesday. They are the reigning 10-time champions of the event.

Tugs captains talk excitement for event

By Krystal Megan | October 19, 2017

Valerie Spychala (left), senior athletic training major, and junior accountancy major Bridget McCaffery (right) practice for Tugs in the trenches at their house Wednesday. They are the reigning 10-time champions of the event.

Delta Zeta wins 10th consecutive womens tugs tournament

Delta Zeta wins 10th consecutive women’s tugs tournament

By Courtesy Amanda Gaucin | October 10, 2016

Coaches and members of Delta Zeta prepare for a matchup on Friday outside the University Plaza Apartments, 900 Crane Drive.

Delta Zeta wins Tugs for 8th straight year

By Ashley Morse | October 26, 2014

Delta Zeta tugged its way to an eighth consecutive championship win in an event Kara Homolka, the sorority’s Tugs team captain, said was “great” for bringing together the Greek community.The Women’s Tugs tournament kicked off Friday at University...

Park, Brady dominate in philanthropy competition

By Rachel Scaman | April 9, 2014

Michelle Park and Scott Brady took home victories at the end of Delta Zeta’s 19th annual Dream Man and Greek Goddess competition.Dream Man and Greek Goddess is a beauty pageant where members from fraternities and sororities compete in formal wear, talent,...

Thanksgiving

Offer time, money to community for holiday

By Jackie Nevarez | November 21, 2013

Thanksgiving is a time to show gratitude, and with just a week until the big feast, students have many opportunities to give back to NIU and the surrounding community.It’s important for students to take the time to look around campus and find volunteering...

Women’s tugs shows strength of sisterhood

By Rachel Scaman | October 20, 2013

Delta Zeta sorority ended the weekend with a victory in women’s tugs for the seventh year in a row.The weekend competition ended with Alpha Delta Pi in second and Sigma Kappa in third. Women’s tugs is tug-of-war competition between the social sororities....

Delta Zeta wins 6th consecutive Tugs championship

By Erin Kolb | October 7, 2012

The Delta Zeta sorority won their sixth consecutive Tugs championship against Alpha Phi on Saturday. Tugs takes place in the fall for sororities and in the spring for fraternities, said Mike Wahlund, Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity member and host of the event....

Sororities pull together to raise money for breast cancer

By Hailey Kurth | October 20, 2011

This weekend, sororities will get together to compete in women's tugs, Pi Kappa Alpha's annual philanthropy event. Tugs isn't just a game of tug-of-war, though. NIU tugs is a more serious, strategic version of the game. "It's a giant tug-of-war [where]...

Delta Zeta raises $4K with Dream Man and Greek Goddess event

By Leah Spagnoli | March 8, 2011

DeKALB | Over $4,000 was raised in the 16th annual Dream Man and Greek Goddess philanthropic event Delta Zeta sorority hosted the event Tuesday night in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium in the Holmes Student Center. Andrew Cinelli of Delta Chi was named the...

Hopeful girls participate in soroity rush

By David Matz | September 16, 2010

Girls throughout campus have begun the pledging process after completing rush Sunday. The three-day long formal process of the College Panhellenic Council (CPC) sorority rush allowed potential new members to tour the house and meet the girls behind the...