Yeah, I'm a Spanish major... #legit
How do I display citizenship within the SFL community?
I want to better the community through my work with PHA, and I think that that shows active participation within the Greek community. I also co-started The Panhellenic Post, a PHA-wide newsletter that helps to unite the community and give everyone the news of what amazing things we Greek women are doing at Ohio State. I also try to attend different chapters' philanthropy events to get to know more Greeks and support them in their causes. I just like getting to know other Greeks, not based off of which house they are from, but as themselves. I have had awesome conversations with Greeks in Student Leadership Advocates (one of my orgs) that I never would have gotten elsewhere. Through participating in things like this class or "Something of Value", I have taken initiatives to improve the community through my actions. I love this community, and want nothing more than to see it improve and grow and flourish for the rest of time!
How does my chapter display citizenship within the SFL community?
Delta Zeta prides itself on being involved in other chapters' philanthropy events. We love participating in the events we can--for fun and to support great causes. While we do that, we also say that we want to meet more houses and to reach out to other houses. Sadly, this seems to not happen very often. I would like that to change. I want to remove a stigma that women from my chapter created two or three years ago. Those women are gone. We are a new and growing group of 95 women. So, who wants to have a dinner swap? (#THISGIRL). Hit me up. All that aside, I think that we could host more philanthropy events in order to become more visible within the community. Our philanthropy is Delta Zeta's Big Man on Campus--a male beauty pageant essentially--that we host each Spring. But, if we did more, smaller philanthropy events or things of that nature, we could help the community (and ourselves) so much more.
How does the SFL community display citizenship within the OSU community?
Great question. As an involved student, I have seen that the majority of student leaders on this campus are involved in Greek life. In that sense, a very small portion of our community display citizenship on a regular basis. Just walk into the CSLS and count the number of Greek letters you see. But again, it's a very small portion. The majority of the community does not reach out to the "non-Greeks". Make fun of a geed for his cargo shorts and Honda Prius all you want, but if 90% of the Ohio State community hates us and judges us for being alcoholic fratdaddies and slampieces... isn't something wrong with us? We have been discussing this issue in PHA since we all attained our positions. We want to reach out, to show the community who we are.We are hosting an event called "Sweets for Sororities" which aims to connect non-Greek women and professors and administration at Ohio State with PHA women. We want to show which women have studied abroad where, which women have done fantastic research. What we don't want to show? Formal pictures, TG pictures, recruitment-board pictures. Get the idea? We want them to know us and not judge us when we wear our letters in public. We want change to occur. We also are having a PHA philanthropy event, Capture the Splash, that our very own Shaina is working on. Through this event, we want to unite the Greek community and the non-Greek community. So, strides are being made to sort of reverse the damage done in past years, and that is exciting to realize.
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