The Sacramento State University and UC Davis chapters of Nu Alpha Kappa will hold their national event, Pledgefest, this weekend, Friday, Nov. 10 through Sunday, Nov.12.

The Nu Alpha Kappa Fraternity, Inc. is the largest Latino-based fraternity on the West Coast with 12 chapters in California and one in Colorado. The Davis and the Sacramento State chapters are the tenth and eleventh to be added to the fraternity, respectively. “It?s just a fund-raiser and it helps to pay for some of the Pledgefest cost,” said Sac State?s NAK member, Noe Vargas.

Usually, Pledgefest is hosted by a different school each year, but this year both chapters decided to split the work and efforts between both schools because of the closeness of the two. Pledgefest was created to help foster the brotherhood with their incoming members. For their weekend events, the chapters will hold a fund-raiser dance on Friday, Nov. 10 at the SES Hall at 10427 Stockton Blvd. Admission is $10 and ages 18 and up are invited to the party. They will be featuring DJs from around the area to help bring music and entertainment to the dance.

On Saturday, Nov.11, both chapters will be doing a cleanup service for the YMCA Childcare Facility at 1925 W St. They will be there at 12 p.m.

The second community service that the chapters will provide this weekend is their canned food drive, which has been going on for the past two weeks.

The food drive service has been organized by the incoming pledges under the guidance of the members. They hope to collect over 1,800 cans of food to donate to the Guadalupe Church to make food baskets for the homeless during the holidays. Pictures will be taken during the cleanup on Saturday, Nov. 11, with both the directors of the Church and the YMCA.

For more information regarding the dance, please call (916) 494-6283. And for more information regarding Pledgefest, you may call Noe Vargas at (916) 427-7941 or Felipe Olvera at (916) 396-7122. You can also check out their Web site @ www.naknet.org. Send ?Greek Stuff? to [email protected].