Posted 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Have you ever seen students walking around wearing Greek letters and asked yourself: “What do those letters mean?”
More than just Greek letters – published in “PeerSpectives”
Have you ever seen students walking around wearing Greek letters and asked yourself: “What do those letters mean?”
“Fraternities and sororities are designed to change the world,” says Alex Brown, the UW-L fraternity and sorority adviser. “They are designed to help our members become better scholars, to teach them leadership skills, to provide the opportunity to give back through service and philanthropy and to create relationships and a network like no other.”
While each fraternity and sorority has a set of unique values, the fraternity/sorority community (FSC) has four main pillars: scholarship, leadership, service and friendship. Each organization has a GPA requirement and each fraternity and sorority consistently ranks higher than UW-L’s men’s average and women’s average GPA.
Being part of the FSC goes beyond the college years.
“Involvement in the FSC provides UW-L students an opportunity to gain a variety of experiences in leadership, service, friendship and academics — all of which are very applicable skills for future professions,” says Whitney Hedge, the fraternity and sorority graduate assistant at UW-L.
The FSC at UW-L is comprised of two sororities: Alpha Phi and Alpha Xi Delta, and five fraternities: Delta Sigma Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Chi Phi, Alpha Sigma Phi and Sigma Tau Gamma.
Read the full version of ‘PeerSpectives.’