Well this is certainly not the easiest blog to do. The others have been pretty simple, and the answers just came to me. This one, however, i had to actually think about. i know, how horrible.
How are you (individually) displaying citizenship within the fraternity/sorority community?
- When i think about displaying citizenship within the greek community, i try and think about what i've done to help the greek community as an individual. Things like attending other fraternities and sororities events and greek-wide events all help promote greek unity. I try my best to never talk badly about greek life to those who aren't in it. This will hopefully keep the greek community in a good light.
How does your chapter display citizenship within the fraternity/sorority community? What does this look like?
-this is a bit harder to think about. As a whole, we try and get all our girls to attend things such as speakers, philanthropy events, etc. but it is really hard to get a chapter of 95 girls focused on one thing at a time. This is definitely something we are looking to improve in our chapter right now.
How does the fraternity/sorority community display citizenship within the greater university community.
-We as a greek community constantly talk about bettering our image and improving relations within the university community. but there is no way that we are effective at this. Ask any "non-greek" and they will sit there for hours and talk about the crazy parties they went to as freshman, seeing people walking in weird costumes during greek week, and being obnoxious at the O. As fun as all this stuff is, they don't have the benefit of seeing all the other stuff we do. The philanthropies, the service days, the sisterhoods/brotherhoods. If i weren't greek, and all i saw were the things that focused around drinking, i would think we "paid for our friends" too. This is a serious problem that we must aim to fix if we ever hope to become a more rounded greek community and university.
i totally agree with you. i hate that greek life is so misunderstood to non-greeks. there are so many philanthropy events, sisterhoods, and bonding experiences no one ever hears about. i don't go around bashing people for not going greek, but it seems like no one can look past the letters
ReplyDeleteEileen, you bring up some good things, especially the images portrayed to non-greeks. When people see greeks drunk off their butts at the O that is the image that will stick with them until we prove them wrong. If only the rest of the community could see us for the great things we do such as sisterhood, service, and philanthropy.
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