Chris Smith, Meagan Flippin, and Jose Becton

Volume 3, Issue 13

 Greek Awards 2007

Josh McKenzie

This past Wednesday night proved to be an exciting time for the Greek Community, as organizations gathered together to celebrate the past year’s achievements, upholding the four pillars of Greek Life: service, scholarship, leadership, and friendship. As Tucker Theatre became silent, the award ceremony began.

The big achievements of the night can be noted as Alpha Delta Pi, Kappa Alpha Psi, and Alpha Tau Omega winning the President’s Cup, given to the top chapter in each council. Also walking away with prestigious awards were Meagan Flippin as Greek Women of the Year, Chris Smith as Greek Man of the Year, Derria Ford as NPHC Greek Woman of the Year, and Jose Becton has NPHC Greek Man of the Year. Congratulations to all Greek Organizations for their outstanding achievements over the past year. Greek Life at MTSU will continue to make strides during the year to come.

Outstanding Service Project

Kappa Alpha Order

Outstanding Community Collaboration

Kappa Delta

Zeta Tau Alpha

Outstanding Philanthropic Fundraiser

Kappa Delta

Outstanding Creative Social Event

Kappa Delta

Delta Sigma Theta

Omega Psi Phi

Phi Beta Sigma

Outstanding Greek Relations

Alpha Chi Omega

Great Strides

Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Outstanding Scholarship Program

Alpha Delta Pi

Alpha Tau Omega

Kappa Alpha Psi

Outstanding New Member Program

Alpha Omicron Pi

Sigma Chi

Kappa Alpha Psi

Advisor of the Year

National Panhellenic Council- Megan Carter, Alpha Delta Pi

Interfraternity Council- Brian Nale, Sigma Chi

National Pan-Hellenic Council- Jimmie Wilson, Alpha Phi Alpha

Outstanding Community Servant

Jennifer Vaughn- Kappa Delta

Outstanding New Member

NPC: Gretchen Jenkins- Alpha Delta Pi

IFC: Daniel Gammon- Sigma Alpha Epsilon

NPHC: Danny Bounds- Kappa Alpha Psi

Achievement Awards

Freshman Male: Jimmy Crytzer, Alpha Tau Omega

Freshman Female: Mary Alice Porter, Alpha Omicron Pi

Sophomore Male: Nathan Potts, Sigma Chi

Sophomore Female: Rachel Simes, Zeta Tau Alpha

Junior Male: Tim Eubanks, Alpha Tau Omega

Junior Female: Christina Sedrick, Kappa Delta

Senior Male: Spencer Wood, Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Senior Female: Leslie Merritt, Kappa Delta

Outstanding Chapter President

NPC: Emily Wright- Alpha Chi Omega

IFC: Ryan Richards- Sigma Chi

NPHC: Luisa Padro- Lambda Theta Alpha

Gold Standard Award Winners

GOLD-     Alpha Chi Omega 

      KappaDelta

              Alpha Omicron Pi

              Alpha Delta Pi

              Chi Omega

              Alpha Tau Omega

              Sigma Alpha Epsilon

              Kappa Alpha Psi

SILVER-      Pi Kappa Phi

                 Sigma Chi

                 Delta Sigma Theta

                 Alpha Phi Alpha

                 Alpha Kappa Alpha

BRONZE-     Zeta Tau Alpha

                  Beta Theta Pi

                  Kappa Alpha Order

                  Pi Kappa Alpha

                  Lambda Theta Alpha

Sports

ALL IFC Sports Champions- Pi Kappa Alpha

ALL NPC Sports Champions- Alpha Delta Pi

Female Outstanding Athletic Performance: Brittany Hunter, Alpha Omicron Pi

Male Outstanding Athletic Performance: Kell Harvey, Sigma Phi Epsilon

Rho Sigma Roll Call

Whitney Carr

May 2^nd will be a bitter sweet day for many sorority women. Rho Sigma Panhellenic Recruitment Counselor Disaffiliation Ceremony, better known as Roll Call will be held on the KUC knoll, Wednesday May 2 at 5pm. Rho Sigma's will be turning over their letters to their presidents and will disaffiliate for the entire summer in order to fully become Panhellenic in their endeavors as a Recruitment Counselor.

This year, there is a new incentive for sorority women to show up and support their sisters. The organization with the highest percentage of women present at Roll Call will “Win a date” with their disaffiliated members. This will be a time for all Rho Sigmas to spend time with their sorority before recruitment starts. This should really turn out the numbers because we all will miss the women who are stepping up to be counselors for the potential new members in the fall.

Come out and support the Rho Sigmas in your chapter, it may be the last time until Bid Day!

The new NPHC President, Justin Phillips

NPHC has New Executive Officers

John Carter

The National Pan-Hellenic Council elected its new executive officers last week.  The winners will take office when school resumes in August.  The results were:

President- Justin Phillips, ΦΒΣ

Vice President- Barret Newsome, ΚΑΨ

Secretary- Christian Armstrong, ΩΨΦ

Treasurer- Lekeisha Hudson, ΖΦΒ

Parliamentarian- Pule Leburu, ΑΦΑ 

Current NPHC president Erik Stevenson of ΚΑΨ believes the new group of officers will be highly successful. 

“I think they will do a great job of continuing the progress NPHC has made over the last few semesters.  They are all capable of performing above and beyond their required duties, and I have the utmost respect for each of them, both as people and as officers.”

Greek Life Torn on Homecoming Dates

John Carter

For several weeks, a major issue among MTSU Greeks has been Homecoming 2007 and its scheduled date of October 20th.  The Inter-Fraternity Council, Panhellenic Council, and National Pan-Hellenic Council have together voiced opinions against that date and, considering a variety of reasons, requested homecoming be postponed until November 10th. The problems cited by IFC, NPC, and NPHC are:

• October 20 is less than one month after both IFC and NPC formal recruitment, and does not give those organizations ample time to prepare new members for the time management skills required to complete scholastic work, new member education, and homecoming.
• Fall Break is scheduled for October 15-16.  Mid-terms have been scheduled for October 17-19.  An October 20 Homecoming is extremely detrimental to the overall scholarship of the Greek community.
• NPHC Step Show would be scheduled for October 19.  Not only does this place the pressure of Mid-Terms and Step Show on members all at once, it also does not allow members ample time to prepare a quality production.

An October 20^th Homecoming forces Greeks to choose between upholding the traditions established over the past decades and scholarship, the reason every student attends MTSU to begin with. As a Greek community, the only option is to forgo tradition and focus on academic success achieved over the past years so a GPA above all-students can be maintained.  

Those Clowns are Steppin to Their Own Beat

Josh McKenzie 

Phi Beta Sigma's Annual "Steppin' for a Cure was held this past Monday, April 23rd. Five Panhellenic sororities and one fraternity went head-to-head, fighting for the title of Step Show 2007 Champion.

The Greek students participating in their respected organization's step show spent a majority of the spring semester practicing- consisting of long hours of energy-wasting, sweat-dripping, heart-bounding practice sessions.

Monday night witnessed a packed house at Tucker Theatre, everyone anticipating each organization's show. With themes such as Insane Asylum (Alpha Omicron Pi), Pirates (Chi Omega), Shoes (Alpha Chi Omega), Good Clown/Bad Clown (Alpha Delta Pi), and Baseball (Kappa Delta), the show was far from a dissapointment, providing hours of excitement.

With the final points tallied, the ladies of Alpha Delta Pi came-out on top as the winner of the Sorority division and the Best Overall. The men of Pi Kappa Alpha received a first place trophy as the only IFC fraternity participating, while Alpha Chi Omega took home second place in the sorority division.

Sigma Phi Epsilon Hits the YMCA

Andrew Holt

This past Saturday, the men of Sigma Phi Epsilon visited the Murfreesboro YMCA to help with a program referred to as Healthy Kids Day. During the event, the men managed stations that contained different physical activities including soccer football, basketball, and a relay station. A dunking booth was even present for kids to dunk MTSU's very own Sig Ep's.

The men interacted and played with the kids in attendence, bringing out their inner child and having a little fun along the way. The event, which was to promote physical activity among children, was held from 8:30am to noon, with Sig Ep volunteering throughout the entire event.

Announcements

-Greek Life Programming Board's 2nd Annual Greek Row Yard Sale was held this past Saturday from 6am-11pm, directly prior to Kappa Delta's highly successful Wing Fling. The yard sale raised a total surpassing $1,000, with all proceeds going to Womack Lane.

-Homecoming Committee Applications are now due into the SGA office, KUC 208!