March 29, 2024

Fall 2015 Greek Report shows success and room for improvement

This past week, fraternity and sorority life released its Greek report for the fall of 2015.

This report shows how the fraternity and sorority community performed in the past semester. It revealed some struggles and some victories for Capital’s Greek life.

The percentage of students who are involved in Greek life has gone down from 22 percent last spring to 20 percent during the fall of 2015. However, this does not hold much concern for council members as the numbers are expected to rise this semester.

“In the spring it should be a little higher because spring recruit is now over,” said fraternity and sorority life intern, Sam Metcalf.

The overall GPA for all of Greek life was lower than last semester. The spring of 2015 report shows the accumulative all Greek GPA as 3.19. The total GPA of the fall report is now at 3.01.

Council members have already started to think of new ways to revive the academic success of the sororities and fraternities.

“In order to bring our GPA back up to what we would like to establish as standard, Sam Metcalf, Shelby Vincken, and I have been brainstorming ways in which we as council presidents can motivate the people in each organization to actually want to raise their GPA, rather than feel obligated to,” said DJ Heard, president of the interfraternity council.

Shelby Vincken, president of the panhellenic council, said that recently attending the Association of Fraternity Leadership and Value Conference in Indianapolis has sparked several ideas that will benefit the current academic performance issue.

“We went to different sessions that specifically touched upon programs to put into place and how to raise money for scholarship opportunities,” Vincken said.

Another idea the conference inspired involved using campus resources, such as Career Development, in order to do resume workshops and discuss how to incorporate Greek life experience into resumes.

“We can’t wait to start implementing some of the ideas,” said Heard. “That way the next Greek report shows improvement throughout the Greek community.”

However, there were two areas of the fall report that pleased the council presidents.

“Philanthropy dollars and service hours were the highest they have been in a very long time,” Metcalf said. “It was very nice to see that progress.”

The report shows that the highest amount of service accomplished during the fall of 2015 by one organization was Phi Sigma Sigma, with 2,120 hours.

The highest amount of philanthropy dollars raised during the fall was by Delta Phi Epsilon, with $3,000.
“It was really exciting to see how much growth there was,” Vincken said.

The statement that the report provides mentions that the fraternity and sorority life on campus is always looking to grow and improve.

“When we continue to better ourselves, we continue to grow and transform lives,” it says, reflecting that the report is both a means to see where they have excelled and also where they wish to focus on for future improvements.

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