The recent executive board elections for Bradley’s Panhellenic and Interfraternity Councils brought a few changes to the greek community.
The PHC executive board, which oversees seven social sororities on campus, moved from 13 to nine members. It consolidated some roles and combined others to create more robust positions. The IFC executive board also switched from 13 to 12 positions.
“I think it is a very positive change that they did condensing the positions,” Bradley PHC President Marian Kavanaugh said. “We had so many girls on the executive board, and when you have 14 girls, it is kind of hard to accommodate everyone’s schedule.”
Roles were shifted and combined to create better experiences for student leadership, according to Director of Sorority and Fraternity Life Nancy Schwartz.
“I think the other thing, too, is that the larger your executive board is, no matter whether it’s IFC or [PHC], the less we’re able to give leadership opportunities to more people in terms of conferences and workshops and clinics and things like that,” Schwartz said. “Condensing that a little bit gives us an opportunity to give more of our exec board a similar experience, which is really powerful when trying to cultivate leadership within women or men.”
This upcoming year, greek life intends to work on its external image, becoming more involved on campus and unifying the different chapters, according to Kavanaugh.
“We’ve done a lot of work in the past years with greek unity and helping our internal structure, and it’s never perfect, but it’s definitely grown a lot in the last two years,” Schwartz said. “Now it’s time to play up our external image and really make some strong friendships on campus.”
In the PHC executive board, the positions of public relations and corresponding secretary were combined, as well as risk and judicial, and the creation of a programming chair.
Schwartz said that both councils are very representative of the various fraternities and sororities on campus. They aren’t necessarily comprised of every fraternity or sorority, but they try their best to have a diverse representative board.
“I think both IFC and Panhellenic are really trying to make positive moves toward changes,” Kavanaugh said. “That’s something that I do want to at least strive to do is create events where it’s more so geared just towards Bradley students and just making everyone a better Bradley student instead of just a better greek member or a better non-greek member; just focusing that end goal of engaging the whole community as one.”
Panhel
President- Marian Kavanaugh
Vice President- Jennifer Wolf
Director of Finance- Jessica Lowe
Director of Correspondence and Public Relations- Hayley Feichter
Director of Recruitment- Sara Buchanan
Assistant Director of Recruitment- Marissa Burns
Director of Programming- Marisa Goldstein
Director of New Member Education- Kaylee Karumanchi
Director of Risk and Judicial Affairs- Hannah Argadine
IFC
President – Ryan Gutchewsky
VP – Evan Powell
Public Relations- Zach Evans
Judicial Affairs- Kody Krupps
Recruitment- Thomas Cane
Athletics- Steve Schoenbeck
Secretary- Chance Dowds
Treasurer- Hunter Vaughn
Membership development- Dan Larson
Special Events- Brent Leinonen
Philanthropy and Service- Justin Reisman
Risk- Jake Lawniczak
