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Did you Know?

Greek Week 2015 will be

held from April 20-24

Theta Eta chapter of Alpha

Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

attended the South

Central Region’s

undergraduate Roundup in

Little Rock, AR.

National Consultants from

Alpha Sigma Alpha and

Alpha Xi Delta have visited

our campus and met with

our undergraduate chapter

members.

In this issue:

State of Greek

Community

2

Greek Expansion 3

Council Corners 4-9

Greek Fall Events 10–20

Greek

Accomplishments

21

Our Information 22

Meet our Greeks

Many are the misconceptions of Greek members and Greek chapters in our

country, in Arkadelphia and in our Campus community.

If you have only heard about hazing, parties, and fights about our Greek

members, then you really haven't heard much about our Henderson Greeks.

Though they were, at one time, in a lot of trouble; Greeks have improved

within the last three years. They now hold higher GPAs than most regular

Henderson students, are more involved with our Arkadelphia and campus

community; and they are held much more accountable for their actions.

We hope that through this newsletter you (Henderson faculty, staff and

student) learn more about the current state of our Greek community, our

prevention efforts on campus, and some of the programs they participated in.

We hope you enjoy learning what our Greek members have been doing this

semester. And, if you have any program ideas that could benefit our Greek

members and any other Henderson student, do let us know.

In Reddie Spirit,

Veronikha Salazar Ed.D. Calvin Kirklin Associate Dean of Students Greek Life Graduate Assistant

Henderson State University

Arkadelphia, AR

Fall 2014 Volume 2, Issue 1

GRK NWS

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State of Our Greek Community

Phi Beta Sigma celebrated this year their centennial. And next year, the Theta Alpha chapter of

Phi Beta Sigma along with the Theta Alpha chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi will celebrate 40 years of

brotherhood at Henderson State University. Although these celebrations are exciting and

noteworthy, there are also extraordinary successes and opportunities occurring every day in the

fraternity & sorority community at Henderson State University.

We all know that fraternal organizations exist to make men better men and women better

women. Research shows fraternity/sorority students develop in these important areas more so

than non-affiliated peers.

However, despite our successes, our Greek community faces serious challenges. Challenges

when it comes to alcohol, sexual violence and hazing allegations. The hazing allegations of today

are much different than those of 10, 20, or 30 years ago and typically involve the abuse of alcohol.

However, our current Greek chapters have a genuinely hazing-free environment and the Greek

culture is not supportive of hazing activities and are intentional in carefully bringing new members

into their organizations.

We were saddened at the surrender of our local Sigma Phi Epsilon undergraduate chapter to

their nationals. But, circumstances out of our control could not stop this from happening. We will

hope one day, due to their long history with Henderson, Sig Ep will charter at Henderson State

University again!

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Understanding Greek Expansion

In the last 14 years (early 2000s) Greek life was not very popular nationwide, and college campuses

saw numbers drop significantly from the decades prior. Our registration numbers of the past two

years at HSU have been unusual but are incredibly promising for our Greek community.

Although students interested in joining a sorority or fraternity at Henderson had decreased a little

bit. This year we have seen Greek life being more desirable among undergraduate students again.

Here are some highlights from the 2014 Formal recruitment processes for NPC/IFC:

For the first time, were assisted by a National RFM Specialist in our Fall 2014 NPC Recruitment

We changed our registration format. NPC and IFC Potential New Members (PNMs) paid $20

when registering for Formal recruitment.

67 was the total of PNMs for NPC and 19 for IFC

96% of PNMs were matched with one of our NPC chapters.

Why Not Consider Inviting Another Sorority/Fraternity chapters?

You might be asking…Why not just bring another sorority/fraternity to HSU? There are many steps

in bring a Greek organization to campus, and the first is to have at least 10 student interested enough

in bringing a Greek organization. Plus, they must meet the Academic standards of cumulative GPA of

2.6, and have successfully completed and currently enrolled in 12 hours at Henderson.

This process, you can imagine, takes a long time and we would budget at least 12 months to do it

right (no action occurs during summer months). We want to continue to encourage growth in our

community rather than invite another chapter, which could result in the men and women interested

in joining the chapters eligible to continue recruiting to go to a new group.

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Counci l Corners

National Pan-Hellenic Council

This council is formed of the following Greek chapters Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta,

Zeta Phi Beta, Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Phi Beta Sigma and Omega Psi Phi

Terrance Kelley

President

National Hazing Prevention Week, or

NHPW, was an event where our campus and the Greek

community banded together through the different organiza-

tions and individuals to promote the prevention of hazing.

NPHW is a nationwide event that is organized by HazingPrevention.org.

Utilizing a national awareness week is a great way to bring attention to the problem of hazing. this

week allowed us to educate students, administrators, faculty and staff, band leaders, and residence

hall leadership, to not just recognize hazing, but to learn ways they can prevent it from occurring

in the first place.

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Counci l Corners

National Panhellenic Conference

This council is formed of the following Greek chapters Alpha Sigma Alpha, Alpha Sigma Tau and

Alpha Xi Delta.

Megan Fowler

President

Domestic Violence Awareness Week,

was an event where NPC chapters along with Zeta Phi

Beta, Athletics Department and Arkadelphia authorities

collaborated with different programs to promote the

prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, mainly among women.

Some of the programs were ‘Face on’, where Greek women put on make up to simulate what

physical assault may look like, to a bake sale which funds collected went to a Women’s shelter in

Hot Springs. Social media was also utilized to promote the events and raise awareness about this

social issue.

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Counci l Corners

Interfraternity Council

This council is formed of the following Greek chapters Kappa Sigma and Phi Lambda Chi

Dillon Maxwell

President

Alcohol Awareness Week was an oppor-

tunity for Greek members and college students, in gen-

eral, to raise awareness about the challenges they usu-

ally face by the norms, traditions, and culture surrounding the use and/or abuse of alcohol. Col-

lege students feel pressure to provide alcohol and a location to party in the prevailing social cul-

ture at HSU. With the assistance of Henderson Police Department, students leaders are working

to change the practices around alcohol consumption with some success.

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GREEK EVENTS—FALL 2014

NPC Formal Recruitment

To see more pictures of our Greek events, please visit our Facebook Page:

Henderson Greek Life

Student Organizations Fair

IFC Formal Recruitment

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GREEK EVENTS—FALL 2014

Freshman Move-In

To see more pictures of our Greek events, please visit our Facebook Page:

Henderson Greek Life

President Jones’ Picnic

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GREEK EVENTS—FALL 2014

Pine Tree Assembly

To see more pictures of our Greek events, please visit our Facebook Page:

Henderson Greek Life

Greek Retreat

Street Dance

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GREEK EVENTS—FALL2014

Watermelon Fest

To see more pictures of our Greek events, please visit our Facebook Page:

Henderson Greek Life

Greek Tables on the Quad

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GREEK EVENTS—FALL 2014

To see more pictures of our Greek events, please visit our Facebook Page:

Henderson Greek Life

National Hazing Prevention Week

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GREEK EVENTS—FALL 2014

Walk a Mile in Her Shoes/Candlelight Service

To see more pictures of our Greek events, please visit our Facebook Page:

Henderson Greek Life

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GREEK EVENTS—FALL 2014

Domestic Violence Awareness Week

To see more pictures of our Greek events, please visit our Facebook Page:

Henderson Greek Life

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GREEK EVENTS—FALL 2014

To see more pictures of our Greek events, please visit our Facebook Page:

Henderson Greek Life

NO MORE/ These Hands Don’t Hurt

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GREEK EVENTS—FALL 2014

To see more pictures of our Greek events, please visit our Facebook Page:

Henderson Greek Life

Alcohol Awareness Week

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GREEK EVENTS—FALL 2014

Freshman Greek Stepshow

To see more pictures of our Greek events, please visit our Facebook Page:

Henderson Greek Life

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GREEK EVENTS—FALL 2014

Homecoming 2014

Halloween

Homecoming Greek Stepshow

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Henderson Greek Life

GREEK ACCOMPLISHMENTS

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Jessica Jenkins, Member of Iota Delta chapter of Delta Sigma

Theta was crowned Henderson 2014 Homecoming Queen

Dillon Maxwell was 2014 Rays of Light Award

Recipient from Arkadelphia Sunrise Rotary Club

Phi Lambda Chi chapter received the Academic &

Chapter Excellence Awards at the Phi Lambda Chi

National Convention.

They also raised $1500 for Children’s hospital

during their annual Drumbeat.

Phi Beta Sigma received $1000 from the CONE

Foundation for a program that will benefit the

Clark County, Arkansas area

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

National Greek Websites National Panhellenic Conference

www.npcwomen.org

National Pan-Hellenic Council

www.nphcq.org

North American Interfraternity Conference

www.nicindy.org

Henderson Greek Office

Mr. Calvin Kirklin

Greek Life—Graduate Assistant

[email protected]

(501)574-8050

Dr. Veronikha Salazar

Associate Dean of Students

[email protected]

(870)230-5231

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