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In the beginning was tine word, and the word was GREEKS Critics of the Greek system at UNO criticize perhaps the most active group on campus. Greel s play a predominant role in student government. Many attend campus social activities, and others involve themselves with campus as well as community programs. In the following interviews with the sorority and fraternity presidents, Greek philosophy, attitudes and activities are discussed. Presidents of the five Greek social sororities interviewed were: Chris Christensen, Gamma Phi Beta; Pam Davis, ZetaTau Alpha; Sally Ganem, Sigma Kappa; Carol Gould, Chi Omega; and Cheryl Rowe, Alpha Xi Delta. Presidents of the seven Greek social fraternities interviewed were: Bill Clark, Tau Kappa Epsilon; Aaron Eairleywine, Sigma Tau Gamma; Rick Eirenberg, Alpha Epsilon Pi; Tom Hawkinson, Lambda Chi Alpha; Rich Kniewel, Pi Kappa Alpha; Bob Pedersen, Sigma Phi Epsilon; and Tim Vail, Theta Chi. SORORITIES Interview by BETSY REZEK Tomahawk: What is the purpose of your sorority? Rowe: I'd say it would be to foster an attitude for good scholarship, sistership and service. Gould: I think it would be friendship and working to a betterment of all humanity. Christensen: Ours is basically philan- thropic. We try to help the people in the community before ourselves. Davis: The promotion of friendship, education and scholarship. Philanthropic projects are also carried out. Ganem: To enhance college life by stressing the intellectual and social to attain a balance between the two. We have Christian foundations, of course. Tomahawk: What has your sorority done in the area of community services? Rowe: We're still in a transition stage. We've been selling candy for the kidney foundation, and each of our pledges is working one hour a week tutoring Indian children. We're going to work with orphans between the holidays. We've taken some children from the Nebraska Children's Home on a picnic with our alums. Gould: For the Honey Sunday in November we had 20 girls going in car pools, and about the same number are going on the cystic fibrosis drive in February. We have about 35-40 really active members who do these things. It's a little better than half. Christensen: We've taken some kids from Encore trick-or-treating this year; 1 0 of our 24 members went. Last year we had a basketball game with the profits for retarded kids. Gamma Phi Beta sponsors a day camp in Canada for retarded and deprived children. Each chapter helps with money or people. Davis: We work with the mentally retarded, which is our national project for
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this year. We took some orphaned child- ren to Band Day and sold candy for the kidney foundation. About 15-20 people work on these things at a time. Ganem: Every single person is involved in our activities. We each have a Grand- ma and Grampa at the Douglas County Hospital. We visit with them, send them letters through our mailbox and deliver them about twice a week. Several of our girls are involved with Manpower. Tomahawk: How far does the sorority insist on individual comformity? Rowe: As long as she comes to the sorority functions and is a good sister — joins in the activities and works for the sorority — we don't say a thing about conformity. Gould: We do nothing at all about conformity. In fact we like to stress the idea of not being alike. I think con- Sigma Kappas sitting at their table in the Ouampi formity's more prevalent with the guys. You can tell what fraternity a guy is in by the way he dresses. A girl doesn't like to be labeled. Tomahawk: Can sorority members ever be expelled? Rowe: Once a girl has gone active she's always in. The only time a girl would be expelled is for very serious reasons. If she didn't come to meetings, rush or other activities over a long period of time and said she didn't want to be in the sorority, we might expel her. Gould: No, not really. If a girl hasn't paid any dues or gone to any meetings, we'd ask if she didn't want to belong. You can quit anytime, but no incident has arisen where we'd have to expel anyone. Christensen: No. Davis: No, they would be de-activated, in my knowledge, there is no one that Room use a mailbox for sorority correspondence. this has happened to. Drop-outs or those that don't graduate are alum members. An extreme case would have to be approved by our national office, of course. You can always turn in your pin if you find you don't want to belong. Ganem: Nothing like that has ever come up, so I really couldn't say. Tomahawk: Since the Greeks are one of the most well-organized groups on campus, do you feel that perhaps they have too much power? Rowe: I don't really think so. The Greeks are organized but as far as power, like in Student Senate, people run be- cause they want to serve. Gould: I don't think they have too much power. It's just that Greeks tend to belong to more organizations. Greeks really encourage joining and involvement so the larger percentage is the only factor. Christensen: I don't think it's because you're a Greek. Usually Greeks are more interested in organizations or they wouldn't have joined the sorority or fraternity in the first place. Usually the person is more organization-oriented so she joins more organizations. Davis: No, I'd like to see them organ- ize more things. The Greeks are respons- ible for a lot that happens on campus and there are always more things we can do. As far as power goes, we don't have all that much. Ganem: No, not really. Tomahawk: Do you find that teachers ever discriminate against you because you're a Greek? Rowe: Some do, some don't. Per- sonally, I've never had any problem but some of my friends say some teachers do discriminate and don't like you oecause you're a Greek. I don't think it's a major problem though. Gould: Most of them don't know I'm a Greek. But I've never encountered it and neither have many of the other girls. Most of the teachers are pretty fair. Christensen: I don't know how they'd 15
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