Kappa Delta Chi, Inc. Seeks
to Diversify Auburn
By Claire Tully, The Plainsman
Kappa Delta Chi, a Latina-founded sorority, sought to attract an interest group on Auburn's campus after being approached last semester; Now they're in the middle of the ongoing process of becoming an official university chapter by November.
Hailee Walls, Kappa Delta Chi president, said it's not been a simple process.
"Establishing a Latina-founded sorority at Auburn is not exactly an easy thing to do," Walls said. "It takes a lot of time and patience, but it’s definitely been worth it."
While the sorority welcomes people from all backgrounds, bringing together a large group of women interested proved to be a struggle, Walls said.
"We were approached by Kappa Delta Chi last semester--they were wanting to establish a chapter here," Walls said. "The hardest part was recruiting enough girls to make an interest group mostly because no one is familiar with KDChi, and minorities make up a small percentage of Auburn’s demographics--although, don’t get me wrong, KDChi wants girls from every background."
Walls said the sorority was overwhelmed with support once they began fundraising in order to establish themselves as a campus organization.
"Once we established an interest group and held a few social events, we needed to fundraise $500 in order to have colony status," Walls said. "We held a fundraiser at BurgerFi and we created a GoFundMe [webpage]."
Facebook was an important tool in fundraising and getting word out about Kappa Delta Chi, Walls said.
"Our goal for GoFundMe was to get friends and family involved in what we are doing, as well as to get the word out about KDChi via Facebook," Walls said.
Walls said their mission is to bring a group of women together that understand one another and feel welcome.
"Mainly, we want to bring girls from diverse backgrounds, particularly Latina backgrounds, together so that they have other girls they can relate to and so that, in a sense, they can feel more at home," Walls said. "A lot of girls don’t feel like they fit into the sororities on campus so we want to create a group that promotes all of these girls’ diversity and heritages."
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