Joining a fraternity provides an opportunity to meet new people and find a group you can fall back on. If you are looking for a fraternity that’s all about service and community, then look no further. Alpha Phi Omega (APO) is a national co-ed service organization that’s founded on the cardinal principles of leadership, fellowship, and service.
According to the president of Alpha Phi Omega’s chapter on our campus, Julia Zatyko, the current events for the semester aren’t finalized, as the fraternity tends to come up with ideas for events as the semester progresses. There are a few events that are finalized, though: celebrating the Chapter’s Birthday in March, the National Youth Service Day, the chapter’s leadership retreat, and welcoming the newest member class.
With service as one of the three tenets, Alpha Phi Omega places a lot of importance on ensuring it runs an amazing service program that is beneficial to the members participating in the fraternity, Stevens, the local Hoboken community, and the nation and world. To do so, the Service Committee works hard to run many high-quality events both within the fraternity and available to all of campus. Of the internally-run events, there are multiple recurring projects that run on a biweekly and monthly basis such as Knitting & Sandwich Making for the Homeless, Local Street Cleanups, Linus Blanket Making, and Paper Crane Making.
APO also works with organizations on campus and around Hoboken to help run events like StevensTHON, Rock the 21, The Hoboken Mac & Cheese Fest, Hoboken Family Alliance Easter Egg Hunt, Mutzfest, and Engineers Week at the Liberty Science Center, among many more. A staple in Alpha Phi Omega’s service program is the annual Spring Youth Service Day (SYSD) which is a large-scale event centered around doing service with and for local youth. This year, SYSD will take place on the weekend of April 15 and will be themed around Environmental Conservation & Sustainability. The aim is to reach out to local schools & youth groups and help them appreciate nature throughout Hoboken and learn how to keep our planet clean by offering events and activities such as gardening, tree planting, “Dirt Cups & Documentaries,” and many more.
Alpha Phi Omega is not just all about work, though: there are numerous fellowship activities to attend as well, such as Game Night, Dungeons and Dragons, Minecraft, Reverse Pictionary, and numerous other events where you can connect with members of the fraternity. In addition, it is a great place to gain leadership skills to learn more about becoming an effective leader.
If you are interested in joining Alpha Phi Omega, they run recruitment for the first two weeks of each semester as well as mid-semester recruitment events. In order to be eligible to join the organization, they ask that you attend at least one recruitment event and stay for an information session. The recruitment period has unfortunately passed for the semester but stay on the lookout for their mid-semester recruitment.
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