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Gamma Phi Circus also has committees for students to participate in, each dividing the responsibility of operations onto the members. These committees include
Equipment Crew, Props, Costumes, Concessions, Publicity, and Yearbook. There are also smaller subcommittee like Sound, Make-Up, Historian, and
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Directors and an Executive Board of students (appointed by the Directors). There are 6 members of the Executive Board, each with their own responsibilities (President, Vice President, Treasurer, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Social Chair).
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Illinois State University draw visitors to the university. The Gamma Phi Circus also performs numerous exhibitions throughout the state and county that publicize the show and the university. The circus rents space from the university at full cost,
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Gamma Phi Circus is also well known in the circus community for pushing boundaries of its amateur members. In April 2017 6 female teeterboard members (and the punchers) set a world record all-female 6-high stack. This was the first stack of this height to be performed completely by females. The
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Conciellos, both trapeze acts. Women always performed in the Circuses and began to be formally initiated into the organization in 1939.
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