About Our Chapter
Brotherhood
Spring 2024 Brotherhood Chair(s): Jacob Schatzle, Nick Fortino
The purpose of the brotherhood committee is to plan weekly brotherhood events in order to strengthen our fraternal bonds and encourage involvement throughout the organization. There are regular events like game nights, tie dye, pumpkin carving, movie nights, watch parties, and bonfires. There are also larger traditional events like Senior Night, Coryoke (Karaoke), and the Lowcountry Boil.
Professional Development
Spring 2024 Professional Development Chair(s): Jack Oberman & Sam Hsu.
The purpose of the professional development committee is to help brothers improve their professional skills through company and research dinners, alumni experience or older brother experience panels, tong talks (TED talks), presentations in chapter highlighting specific brother’s professional experience, resume workshops, and more. The professional development committee must also host and organize a PD lock-in, be a liaison between the fraternity and the CEC Career Center, and run the Alumni LinkedIn group.
Service
Spring 2024 Service Chair(s): Soraya Remaili, Jose Garcia
The purpose of the service committee is to plan fun and creative service events. The service chair must keep track of all active brother and pledge’s service hours (8 hours and 3 different events per semester). This committee will also be in charge of community outreach which in the past has entailed organizing brothers to help at local STEM events like Vex robotics competitions, school visits to the university, and tutoring at local schools.
Academic
Spring 2024 Academic Chair(s): Rachel Wayne
The purpose of the academic committee is to motivate brothers to do well in their studies by providing resources to help them succeed and rewarding brothers who do well. Academic committee organizes the textbook bank, internal Rate My Professor database, and plans study sessions throughout the semester.
Philanthropy
Spring 2024 Philanthropy Chair(s): Grace Yaegel, Brice Odom, Kelly Sullivan
The purpose of the philanthropy committee is to host and plan one event per semester that spreads STEM to the community and builds on the chapter’s relationship with the community. The fall semester typically hosts the Fall into Science Festival. The festival incorporates many fun fall-themed STEM activities and our annual Pumpkin Chunkin' competition. The spring semester typically hosts the Living Science Museum which transforms Swearingen into a living museum with brothers acting as famous scientists.
Intramural
Spring 2024 Intramural Chair(s): Matt Larsen
The purpose of the intramural committee is to register the fraternity’s intramural teams early and manage them throughout the semester by reminding brothers to attend games/matches and collecting the intramural fees from players. Theta Tau registers several intramural teams every semester and has a long tradition of success.
Public Relations
Spring 2024 Public Relations Chair(s): Jack Mesaric, Jack Schmitt
The purpose of the public relations committee is to manage the fraternity’s public image through social media and t-shirts. The committee is also in charge of advertising for different fraternity events across campus and in the community. In the Fall, PR chair organizes the annual Rivalry Week Car Smash. Finally, the committee handles the upkeep of a photo library from brothers.
Technology
Spring 2024 Technology Chair(s): Carolina Turner
The purpose of the technology committee is to manage the email forwarding accounts, private Facebook page, chapter website, and family tree. This chair also can take on various technology projects that benefit the fraternity (e.g. speed dating timer).
Recruitment
Spring 2024 Recruitment Chair(s): Sean Faircloth, Haley Pepper
The purpose of the recruitment committee is to be the face of the fraternity during rush and plan events to best showcase everything Theta Tau has to offer to potential new members. Typical events include info sessions, PD workshop, committee fair, game night, speed dating, and professional dinner.
Relay For Life
Spring 2024 Relay For Life Chair(s): Taylor Swan
The Relay for Life Comittee was created to be in charge of our relay team at the UofSC Relay for Life event. The goal of Relay for Life is to raise money for the American Cancer Society, and to gather support for those battling cancer. This comittee assists brothers with signing up for the event, organize our team fundraising efforts, and plan our tent for the main event in April.
Fundraising
Spring 2024 Fundraising Chair(s): Kathleen Abrams
The purpose of the fundraising committee is to host and plan creative fundraising events for the chapter that members and non-members can attend. Money raised by the fundraising committee is used to fund large fraternity purchases and our Philanthropy events.
Tailgate
Fall 2023 Tailgate Chair(s): Watts Liddle
The purpose of the tailgate committee is to put on the tailgate for every home football game. This involves setting up the grill, tents, tables, and games, cooking food, and packing up after the game.
DEI
The purpose of the DEI committee is to make sure all brothers feel included and represented. The committee is responsible for reaching out to diverse CEC organizations during recruitment, sharing the chapter’s demographics, and organizing events geared towards educating brothers and promoting mental health. Some events include yoga on the Horseshoe, cultural nights, movie nights, and educational activities hosted by the university.
