The Panhellenic Association held elections for its 2015 executive board on Nov. 9. Six of eight available positions were filled. Re-elections will take place for the positions of Vice President of Recruitment Internal and Vice President of New Member Education.

**President — Allison Fitts**

Junior Allison Fitts is a marketing major from Kansas City. She is a member of the Kappa Delta sorority, the president of Mizzou Music Management, and part of Tour Team.

“According to the PHA bylaws, the president’s job is essentially keeping everyone else organized,” Fitts said.

The president presides at the executive board meetings, PHA council meetings and acts as a face for the organization on campus, Fitts said.

She said she hopes to be a leader that can help all of the other executive board members achieve their goals in the upcoming year.

“I’d really work to combat sexual assault within the Greek community and on campus in general,” she said. “I’d like to have not only the PHA exec board, but also chapter presidents, chapter risk managers — really as many Greek members as we can — be informed on Title IX reporting procedures.”

Fitts said she also hopes to garner more support within the Greek community for its PHA-wide philanthropy, Circle of Sisterhood.

She said she wants to make the budget more transparent and to continue previous presidents’ efforts to create a judicial board.

Fitts said she has been involved in PHA since her freshman year. She was Kappa Delta’s Panhellenic delegate this last year and a recruitment counselor.

“Everything that we hope to achieve this year will center around one, if not all, of those,” Fitts said. “I’m really excited to get started and think we’ve got a good year ahead of us!”

**Vice President of Finance and Records — Meg Rasche**

Junior Meg Rasche is an accounting major from St. Louis and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity.

As vice president of finance and records, Rasche is responsible for making agendas, recording minutes, keeping attendance at Delegation, maintaining a working budget, collecting dues and other monetary actions.

“I want to see the completion of a published budget so that the Panhellenic community is assured that their fees are going toward the unity of chapters and the ideals that PHA stands for: sisterhood, service, scholarship and leadership,” Rasche said.

She also said she plans to create additional opportunities to educate PHA women on financial skills such as college budgeting and credit scores.

“As a PHA (executive) member, my first priority is the Greek community,” Rasche said. “I want each woman to view me as an approachable woman for ideas and issues that they might have in regard to PHA. I am here to represent them.”

**Vice President of Programming — Abby Flores**

Junior Abby Flores is a Spanish and biological sciences major from Chesterfield, Missouri. She is a member of the Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority.

“I will be a resource for all aspects of programming for the Panhellenic executive board,” Flores said. “This includes being knowledgeable in all that the university has to offer for our community.”

PHA already conducts chapter visits, and Flores said she would like to add to those.

“I would like to implement town hall meetings,” Flores said. “These meetings would be a safe space in which any and all members of our community can express concerns and share ideas. This type of forum will allow me to gain ideas and create purposeful programs.”

Flores said she hopes to become a bigger resource for the executive board and members of the PHA community in order to create meaningful programs for members.

“This position requires a lot of coordination between the members of the executive board,” Flores said. “I think, most importantly, the members of our community need to have the ability to share their ideas with others. I’m hoping the goals for myself will help integrate the community more, creating buy-in and ownership of all programming aspects.”

**Vice President of Public Relations — Carolyn Welter**

Junior Carolyn Welter is a journalism and political science major from Prairie Village, Kansas. She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity.

“I will serve many roles for PHA such as maintaining our social media platforms, working with the media on coverage of Greek life, overseeing our PHA philanthropy … aiding each chapter’s communications positions and fostering the relationship between PHA and the sororities, as well as the Mizzou community,” Welter said.

She wishes to increase support of Circle of Sisterhood and create a more positive relationship between the Greek and non-Greek communities at MU.

Welter said she wants to maintain a positive image of the PHA executive board, as well as the entire Greek community.

“Many of our goals require the support of the entire Mizzou community, so building that image is crucial in gaining support for what we want accomplished,” she said. “We have the ability to be such a powerful force in support of women, but we need the support of our community in order to be that agent of change.”

**Vice President of Recruitment External — Erin Mikel**

Junior Erin Mikel is a member of the Chi Omega fraternity from Eureka, Missouri. She is majoring in communications and minoring in human development and family studies.

As vice president of recruitment external, Mikel represents PHA at university recruitment events and works to meet the needs of potential members.

She works with the vice president of recruitment internal to plan PHA formal recruitment, meets with the chapter recruitment chairs and serves as a resource to chapters concerning informal recruitment.

Mikel said she hopes to institute an upperclassman quota.

“Upperclassman quota would be separate from the new pledge class bid day quota,” she said. “This way, chapters could still take full freshman pledge classes while adding new upperclassmen to fill in the gaps. I believe this would also raise the percentage of sophomores that go through formal recruitment successfully.”

In her new position, Mikel said she hopes to “successfully facilitate one of the largest Panhellenic recruitments in the country” and represent recruitment positively.

**Vice President of Risk Management – Kendall Foley**

Junior Kendall Foley is a member of the Sigma Kappa sorority. She is a journalism major from Gower, Missouri.

As vice president of risk management, Foley coordinates the registration of alcohol-involved social events and oversees meetings of chapter and the social and risk management chairwomen.

She also communicates with chapters about national and university policy changes and issues, and works with the vice president of programming to coordinate functions related to risk management.

“In my upcoming term, I would like to work to expand the scope of the focus in risk management issues to include personal wellness in college,” Foley said. “I would like risk management to include a wide variety of resources and education about responsible alcohol management, personal safety and health and stress and anxiety management.”

Foley said she plans to create a code of standards that includes all existing policies of PHA member chapters and to continue efforts to create a PHA standards board to handle policy violations among chapters.

“It is important that we hold our peers to a high standard and keep all chapters accountable for our expectations of them,” she said.

Foley said she hopes to make an impact on the women of the PHA community through community outreach and education.

“Giving sorority women the resources to better themselves and make the most of their time in the Greek community is the most important thing I can do in this role,” she said.