In Pullman
Rake’n'Run
Rake’n'Run is Theta Iota’s own philanthropy. Often we will take Saturday morning’s in the fall and go rake leaves in local communities. Our goal is to create a positive community awareness of our organization and inform residents about our national philanthropy, Push America. We do not charge for our services, but do ask for a money donation to Push America.
Philanthropy
One of the ways the brother’s of Pi Kappa Phie like to get involved with charities as well as with sorotities is through philanthropys. Sororities contact us and ask us to donate to a foundation that they support, whether it be the Ronald McDonald House or Emmanuel Cancer Foundation, we donate to these kinds of foundations. Along with donating, the sororities have organized competitions between the fraternities that donate lasting between 2 and 4 days. Each day there is a different commpetition, many which include a lip sync contest, sporting tournament, poker tournament, eating contest, or a skit. Our brothers compete together so as to attain the most collaborated points from each competition that week. Each semseter there are between 4 and 6 philanthropys with other soroities. Last semester we placed top 3 in 3 out of the 5 philanthropys we participated in.
Give-A-Push Weekend(s)
Give-A-Push Weekend has been a part of Pi Kappa Phi’s service experience since 1989. The work that you can do over a weekend will help enhance the lives of people with disabilities for many years to come as well as save camps thousands of dollars on labor and materials expenses.
As Pi Kapps, we are committed to service to people with disabilities and Give-A-Push Weekend is a program that brings together Pi Kapps from across the country to work side by side to build a better tomorrow while building the bonds of brotherhood. If you want to take a road trip with your chapter brothers, meet some Pi Kapps from across the country, and help enhance the lives of people with disabilities, then Give-A-Push Weekend may be just what you are looking for.
Push Pageant
The men of Pi Kappa Phi had heard that some other chapters had invited all of the sororities on campus to take part in something similar to a beauty pageant. This idea intrigued us because we felt that this could be something fresh to the Greek community here at Washington State University. In our efforts to make our school community closer, we decided to invite all of the residence halls (excluding the all-male dormitories) in addition to inviting all sororities. Also, we did not want the participants in the pageant to be judged solely on their best-looking girl, so in creating the events for the pageant, we devised the competition to incorporate more teamwork among the girls. We had three different attires (Spirit Wear, Winter Wear, and Formal Wear) for the participating sororities and residence halls, and only one girl was to participate in each. In designing the rubrics, we made creativity a priority among the criteria for the judges and encouraged as many girls to come to the pageant and support their friends because the scores were also being judged by crowd involvement. This specifically was important because it would allow us to spread as much awareness as possible about what Push America is and the people it serves.
One of the most important pieces of what came to be called “Push Pageant” was our empathy competitions. All participating sororities and residence halls were to be split up into different heats and assigned a disability and daily task to carry out. These competitions were worth points for the participants, but we also spoke with the girls about empathy and asked them what was difficult about the competition. A Question and Answer night was held the day before the actual pageant in which a group of girls were asked different questions involving empathy and what type of philanthropic things they take part in. This portion was worth the most amount of points in the pageant.
Swim & Gym
A few men from Pi Kappa Phi have been involved with Swim & Gym every semester for the last two and a half years. To picture what takes place at Swim & Gym, think back to P.E. classes from elementary school because the children who come to Swim & Gym every Friday morning are mostly pre-school aged. Half of the children who participate in Swim & Gym come from an on-campus daycare and the other half come from various places because these children have disabilities. At Swim & Gym, every child is given a Big Buddy. With their Big Buddy, each child splits the hour and a half of play time between being in the pool and learning to swim, and being in the gym, playing basketball, Duck-Duck-Goose, and many other games.