Inspired by a friend who had chartered the Nu chapter of alpha Kappa Delta Phi at Pennsylvania State University, Kuangmei Lin (or as her friends call her, Gwen) gathered a group of her seven closest friends at Boston University in the Spring of 1995 in the hopes of doing the same at her school. In the back court of the George Sherman Union at BU Central, these eight women met for the first time as the Boston University Interest Group. Their hope was to create the first Greek organization at Boston University to be founded on the basis of cultural awareness, and to unite like-minded Asian-American women in the bond of eternal sisterhood. From the very start, it was an uphill battle - carrying a cultural connotation was unheard of back then, but in addition, they soon found out that they would be starting the first new Greek organization at BU in over eighty years. In the Fall of 1995, Gwen and her friends received news that their Interest Group had been approved, and they would begin the process of chartering that following semester. On April 12th, 1996, these eight women officially became the Charter Class of Boston University alpha Kappa Delta Phi.