Hillsdale students’ passion for music continues to draw them into friendship and fellowship.
Men’s musical fraternities Mu Alpha and Phi Mu Alpha, and women’s musical fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota have all added new members to their choruses since September.
Although the fall semester is not as busy as the spring for the three groups, each had a successful pick up.
Mu Alpha picked up five pledges — a mixture of sophomores and juniors.
Mu Alpha President and senior Addison Stumpf said that the pledges were picked up in late September.
“Fall is fairly low key,” Stumpf said, with the main event being the dorm serenades, which took place last week. Mu Alpha’s events for next semester include the spring concert and annual pig roast.
Phi Mu Alpha picked up 13 new pledges, a higher number than usual, and the largest pledge class in the college. Last year, the Sinfonia picked up 9 new members.
Sophomore Shelby Ripley, who is the Fraternity Education Officer, is in charge of training the pledges through their new member process.
“We get together and play music with people who pick up tunes, chords, notes really easily and just have an enthusiasm for music that matches the tenor of the group,” Ripley said.
Phi Mu also performed serenades last weekend.
Sigma Alpha Iota picked up 9 pledges — five sophomores and four juniors–on Oct. 2.
Mindi Popovich, who is Vice President of Membership, said that she is thrilled with the class and with forming new relationships.
“I was so excited when I got the position because I just really love helping people,” Popovich said. “And joining a new group can be daunting.”
SAI hosted their annual Charity Ball earlier this semester and will perform their concert this weekend, but their other events, such as singing valentines and professor dinner raffles, will happen in the spring.
“A lot of girls said that one of the reason they wanted to join was because they know that it just a good group of girls, and I just want to make sure that we live up to that,” Popovich said. “Which is still easy to do because Hillsdale is such a great group of people in general.”
