Pi Beta Phi House Directors

"SORORITISAUR IUS-genus oj attempt to do those three things. For that in an effort to decrease and better disnibute dinosaur that became ext/llct in the matter, so are the leaders of other sororities, the demands on those dedicated leaders. early 21st century, colloquia/- of ational Panhellenic Conference (NPC) What can you as an individual do to Greek 'sorority. '" and of National Interfraternity Conference help? Don't bother to pull out your ( IC). We, women's and men's groups, are As a collegian, you can maintain the dictionary, Webster has not all working together-as never before to high scholarship you have attained (our defined "sororitisaurius"- I preserve for future generations the opportu international grade point average is over a made it up to make a pOint, nity to benefit from Greek life ( as all of us 3.0 on a 4.0 point system!). You can con as a matter of fact I would did and continue to do). tinue to give time and energy to community like to make several points if What specifically is Pi Phi doing about service and philanthropies. You can increase you will bear with me. preparing for change? youu:ampus involvement and be an even Our own wonderful, wise and Councils, past and present, have been better "citizen" of your university. You can witty Barbie Tootle told our colle devoting significant time to strategic plan lead the effort at your school to foster the giate leaders this past summer that, ning. Our international Directors were best of risk management practices. You can "Organizations that refuse to change are brought into the process last fall and are always care about and suppOrt your sorority represented by a dinosaur, and they will making significant contributions. This past sisters. become extinct." As many of you know, summer at our leadership seminars we had As an alumna, you can pay your Barbie is Assistant to the President at The "Consults with Council" to provide on a international dues and keep your address Ohio State University, and she knows what "grass roots level" to every chapter presi current with Central Office, and encourage is happening on today's college campuses. dent an opportunity to share thoughts and your friends to do the same. You can partic Are things different/changing on today's concerns with a Grand Council member. ipate in alumnae activities including the campus? We are trying to keep all our members edu Directions program. You can give your time Read the articles in this issue of The cated and updated through The ARROW as an alumnae officer, chapter advisor or ARR UWand be better mformed about the and correspondence, as well as through house corpuraliull board member. You can changing student. For that matter, read alumnae retreats, collegiate seminars, con assure Pi Phi 's financial stability by con your morning newspaper-things are not vention speakers, and other programming. tributing to our Foundation-your contri the same in almost any area or our live~, \Ve ale uying to make adjustments as bution 'Will make it possible for us to why would we think it would be "like it was needed, for example: provide the educational programming need when I was in school" relative to college Rush: Along with other NPC groups, we ed to maintain our standards of excellence. campuses and in turn to our chapters. are promoting more effective and meaningful Are "Sororitisaurius" and Pi Phi going to Can we stop change? rush practices, i.e. more conversation and become extinct? No, and even if we could , would we less entertainment Oess elaborate rush skits). No, an emphatic "no"! With your help, always want to do so? Remember ... it was Programs: We are providing, and work we are going to meet the "challenges of a change for women to attend college in the ing with other Greek groups to provide, change." With your help, we will be here mid 1800s ... it was a change for women to educational programs to help meet the for succeeding generations of young join together to form their own "fraternity needs on today's campuses. women. With your help, we will give to • like the men had" ... it was a change for Pledgeship: We are piloting a shortened them the same opportunity we have had to our I.e. Sorosis to be called by the Greek pledge period which will be less demanding have a "family away from home" ... to form letters PI Beta Phi ... If you read about the on the members and more uniting to the lasting friendships ... to grow as individuals early years of Pi Phi, there was no such chapter. (Note: at the time of this writing all . to develop leadership skills ... to learn thing as a pledgeship, let alone a rush skit. but one of the 26 NPC groups either already to work as a member of a team ... to accept Although most of us do not like change, it has or is evaluating a shortened pledge responsibility for themselves and for others is ine\~table, and it is nOl always bad. ship-to not do so could possibly effect our . .. to raise their self-esteem ... in total to be How should we react to change? ability to be competitive in rush.) better prepared to meet the demands of a There are at least several steps we can Fraternity Heritage: In light of the changing world, a world that will find them take: tIme constramts of our collegians and the ha\~ng both careers and families, a world 1. We can be educated and aware of shortened pledge period, we are preparing that will need more women who are caring, what IS changing and why. modules about Pi Phi's history. ideals and capable and concerned. With your help, it 2. We can plan for the changes. both traditions which will be for the ongoing can and will be done l short-term and long-range. education of all chapter members (nor just 3. \\'c can make necessary adjustments, pledges). SARAH R UTH "SIS" M UJ5 I.e be pmactl\'e Chapter structure: \,'e are stud)1ng GRAND V ICE P RES IDENT OF P ROGRAM I hope you \vill be comforted to know our current chapter officer responsibilities D EVELOPMENT that Pi Phi's officers are making every * For mO/'e Injormation on "SIS," see page 28 Winter 0 1994 Volume III-Number 2 Features Today's student profile 4 reflects the changing demographics and diversity of our world Pi Beta Phi 33 Foundation's Report and Honor Roll of Donors The Fraternity com 57 pletes its 14th annual Friendship Fund campaign Venture west for the 84 1995 Convention in Palm Desert, California Departments From the Editor .......... .. ....8 o From the Reader ......... .. .. 9 ews from Arrowmont .......... I 0 Campaign for Arrowmont ........ I 3 Pi Beta Phi Foundation ... .. .... 14 Links to Literacy .... .. ........ 17 Collegiate ews ................ 18 4.0 Students ...... .. ..... .... 23 Alumnae ews ................ 26 Fraternity Directory .. .... ... ... 30 Holt House ...... .......... .. 32 C OVER: Gina Cruz, Missouri Alpha, ews &. otes ........ ........ 79 and the Washington University In Memoriam . ... ..... ......80 campus in St. Louis, Missouri. Pi Phi Express . ................83 Winter " 1994 n as a p tlinn Scholar, as "'!llWS-»-' W~U •.. ~oU"iOII'O 10 at.. well as ace.. .,. into the Honors ~.sa. UQiva'sity after partictpat College. She was recently chosen as ing in the HlSp8Ilic MotherlDaughter Arizona'sjunior Miss and was first run Program during high school. She is ner-up in the national competition. active in the Leadership Scholar While the names are fictitious, the Program, Devil's Advocates service hon students are real and are representative concentrates on her omy, the dance line, and serves as a of the student profile enrolling in high ~1111._.~r.leaving lit- residence hall peer counselor. er education each year. They reflect, in tie time for extracurricular "Christy," an 18-year-old freshman large measure;-the. changing demo acn - mething she regrets as she and Leadership Scholar in her first graphies and diversity of society as a watches the other youn r students semester at ASU. belongs to a strong. whole. ing with each other and the uni traditional Mormon family. Although The annual enrollment rate of stu through orgamzations and undecIded on her major, her emphasis dents age 40 and older ill postsec on academies has resulted in her selec- ondary institutions has more than Winter o 1994 age eighteen (Connoisseur, 9/89 as panicipated at double reponed in the Generation X book). ("More Adults Enrolling in What about the college students' Programs," 1994). vi.ews on the world? According to a sur "By the year 2000, one-third wrote recently that due vey completed by Art Levine, President nation's populations will be composed and economic factors, parents ofTeachers College, Columbia of minority peoples and many of our are both working and working longer University, ew York, the Challenger cities will have school populations in hours. resulting in adults having few Shuttle, the GulrWar and the fall of which people of color are the majority" authentic connections with their chil communism are the human events ("Educating One-Third of A Nation," dren. This "Culture of Neglect" has cre which had the most impact on current 1988). ated a diminished concern for ethics college students. And yet, even in the And what about the family struc and personal responsibility (Hersh, fall of communism, they only under ture? Sixty percent of today's children 1994). The television has become the stood the event occurred. They did not will hve with a single parent at some primary guardian with American chil understand the symbolic impact of time before they turn eighteen dren viewing 350,000 commercials by such an event for their parents or Winter o 1994 mail, voice freshmen to gain a perspective on messaging sys changes in student demographics and tems, or inter college students' attitudes about a active number of topics (Cage, 1994).

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