The ladies of Rho Theta are helping children that need money to survive and grow each year by trick or treating for UNICEF. UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, is working in 156 countries to provide health care, clean water, nutrition and education to children and their families. We carried around the "Trick or Treat for UNICEF" boxes and collected donations for this national initiative.

The ladies of Rho Theta held a Sickle Cell Awareness Day twice during the month of September, honoring National Sickle Cell Awareness Month. This was also done to honor one of our chapter members that has this illness. We distributed information with candy about the illness as well as collected donation for a Sickle Cell foundation.

Mammogram Day

During the month of October, also recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the ladies of Rho Theta served Appalachian by hosting a Mammogram Day. To promote awareness of the importance of regular mammograms, we distributed pink ribbons along with pertinent information on Breast Cancer. Contact tables were also held in the student union where a display board with information on Breast Cancer and Mammograms was featured. Students were provided with the opportunity to ask more in depth questions about Breast Cancer, mammograms, and why this issue is more dangerous to African American women. This day was a complete success and was only one of many displays of public service by the ladies of the Rho Theta chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Rho Theta Participates in ACT's Annual Dance Marathon 2 Years in a Row

Every year, ACT (Appalachian and the Community Togehter) hosts a dance marathon as a charity event for an honorable organization. Since Rho Theta's re-emergence onto ASU's campus, we have participated in this amazing event. This year, the funds raised through this event, went towards the Watauga Youth Network. The ladies of Rho Theta served food and drinks to the dancers as well as provided moral support and some entertaining in party hopping with the men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Soror Shantae Jones of Spring 2005 speaks to the Appalachian Newspaper on the difference between NPHC and PHC organizations.
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Kandace Davis of Spring 2006 takes action on Appalachian's campus by writing into the school newspaper about issues pertaining to females on our campus.Click Here to read her article

Delta's Charge Participants of MLK Challenge

Every year, ASU hosts a MLK Challenge to remember and honor the dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This year, members of Delta Sigma Theta sang negro spirituals prior to the commencement of the day to charge the participants of this great initiative.

Delta's Participate in Annual Walk for Awareness

On September 5, 2006, the ladies of the Rho Theta Chapter participated in Appalachian's Walk for Awareness. This event remembers all those women who fell victim to sexual assault or other violence and charges the community to practice safer habbits. Kandace Davis, member of the Rho Theta Chapter was an honored speaker at this event. She gave a speach to hundreds of Appalachian students, faculty, staff, administrators, and other community members, sharing a personal story about her grandmother being a rape victim and her mother a product of the horrific event.