Before coming to college I had many people tell me that I would make my best friends in college. Whenever I told anyone that I was going to Kansas State University in the fall they would rant and rave about how much fun I would have. Everyone I talked to told me it would be fun for many different reasons but the one thing that everyone mentioned was the friendships I would form. I became really excited to get to Manhattan and have a bunch of great friends. I had some really good high school friends
A Dynamic Individual with Vitality and Attitude…these are the characteristics of a true DIVA. I never knew the real meaning of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated until I attended college. While I was a student in middle and high school, the lovely women of Delta Sigma Theta seemed intangible to me. I admired them and wanted to one day follow in their footsteps. The way they spoke, how they carried themselves, the respect they demanded and the attention they received just by walking into a room
Mahatma Gandhi said, "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." The purpose of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated is to uphold a sisterhood of women who continually lose themselves through serving their community and the world at large. What does this "lose yourself in the service of others" phrase imply? While selflessly serving the community, your actions stand for a cause that is greater than you are. Additionally, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated
How would college campuses be different if there were no sororities nor fraternities? Throughout their lifespan, the media has constantly been negatively portraying fraternities and sororities, from movies like House Bunny, 22 Jump Street, and Legally Blonde. Greek life has been portrayed to the public audience as a group of misfits. The negative portrayal of Greek life exists also at Mississippi State, often in the form of a clear divide between Greek students and their non-affiliated classmates
Delta Zeta Sorority Life: Good or Bad? “Sisterhood is the essence of all the wisdom of ages, distilled into a single word. You cannot see sisterhood, neither can you hear it nor taste it. But you can feel it a hundred times a day. It is a pat on the back, a smile of encouragement. It’s someone to share with, to celebrate your achievements” – Anonymous (Sorority Quotes). Joining a sorority is a life-changing experience during college. When going to college, there are many clubs and organizations
Introduction Involvement in Greek organizations has been a part of college students’ undergraduate experiences for over a hundred years. Fraternities and sororities were originally assembled for the furthering of social and academic aspects of college, as well as for developing professional skills and making connections for life beyond graduation. There are different types of Greek organizations, including social organizations and honor societies. Social fraternities or sororities are the organizations
A Mirage of Benefits from Fraternities and Sororities The first Greek letter organization was founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary. This organization was a fraternity called Phi Beta Kappa and set forth many of the modern norms and traditions of fraternities and sororities. The traditions include: a secret ritual, a secret handshake, a badge, mottos, and a code of laws. Later, in the 1850s, Ladies followed suit and created the first sorority: Alpha Delta Pi (Jones). These organizations
were you in high school? Circle those where you served as elected officer or other leader. (Consult your resume and copy/paste from there if needed.) In high school, I was involved in: -HOSA: Future Health Professional -Medical Reserve Corps -National Honors Society -Skills USA -Key Club *the ones that are circled are the organizations that I served as an elected officer for at least a term 2. Which of the above were most meaningful/memorable and why? List and describe up to 3. Out of the
students or students in other campus organizations. The continued recurrence of the argument highlights a per- sistent difficulty confronting those interested in research and practice related to fraternal involvement. North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) President and CEO Pete Smithhisler recently stated, “often, arguments both for and against the fraternity experience focus on personal experience and anecdotal information” (Pendry, 2010, para. 2). The persistence of these ar- guments was
People these days often believe everything on the Internet or television without knowing the truth behind it. One of those is sororities and fraternities. People often think them as a party club or social club instead of a club that helps raise money for causes. Sororities and fraternities in college have strict rules, close relationship with one’s another, and their philanthropies that raise money for certain causes. First of all, just like schools and other clubs on campus, sororities also have
It has its own culture, and every organization is different. On the Armstrong campus we have the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) Greeks and the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) Greeks. The NPC, founded in 1902, is an umbrella organization for 26 (inter)national sororities. Each member group is autonomous as a social, Greek-lettered society of college women and alumnae. NPC is a conference and not a congress, it does not create any legislation except for how its own meetings are run. Other
to understand. Risk Management: This is a very important chair because they are liable for all the sisters that go out to Delta Zeta functions like mixers. This year this Caitlyn has taken a lot of unnecessary heat for social media with the new national policy changes and I think that for next semester the sisters should