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Today is a red-letter day for people all over Milledge. Thanks to The Greek Telephone Directory company, the guys who publish the handly little book allowing you to contact anyone you ever could possible wish to call in any sorority or fraternity, we are all now CARD carrying members of the Greek Community.
Because of my affiliation with my sorority, I now get a pretty little card giving me 10 percent off of my manicure at LV Nails, 10 percent off at Doc Cheys or free entrance to Tuesday shows at Tasty World, with no limit to the number of uses! This is only a few of the dozens of Athens locations offering similar discounts. Representatives droppped off these hot little discount cards at chapter meetings Monday. What college kid can resist a good bargain? Not me. Let the savings begin.
Check out the rest of the Athens locations where my new favorite GTD card can save you dollars and cents at http://www.thegtd.com/discount.
On a more serious note, Greek students have landed themselves on the front page again. I empathize with the ladies of this local sorority, as I’m certain the majority of members had nothing to do with the crime committed, yet the event truely is news in our community. This student faces multiple felony charges for her mistakes and, unfortunately, has handed her sorority some bad PR.
This is something those of us in Greek organizations, or any organization for that matter, have had to face again and again. When someone representing a body of people ends up in the spotlight, so do the members of the organization being represented. Whether the coverage is just or unjust, it seriously can damage chapter morale. In some cases, reputations can be damaged permanently.
So how do organizations overcome such an event? Many, including the ladies of Xi Delta, choose not to comment and continue on doing the best they can to represent their organization with heads held high. If we in the Greek community continue to take things in stride, maybe we eventually will earn some well-deserved positive press.
Having a philanthropy event in the near future? E-mail the The Red & Black variety editor Whitney Kessler at variety@randb.com and tell her what’s up! Many great events fail to get any press because reporters just haven’t heard about them.
So let’s be the change, as our main man Corey Smith likes to say, and let all of us here know what great stuff your organization is up to!
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I love this blog!! I can’t wait to hear about the philanthropies, the gossip (only the appropriate stuff of course), and everything fun going on in the Greek community. This was such a good idea! Major props to whoever came up with it.
It’s sad how the negative, degrading stories are posted so readily in the news, but the philanthropic side of the Greek Community is never presented. I appreciate your acknowledgement of the humiliation such negative press instigates, and your encouragement of reporting the positive and benevolent aspects of our Greek organizations.
AMAZING BLOGITURE. YOU ARE VERY POIGNANT.
I’m new to the greek community so I’m excited to be able to read about whats going to be going on in the upcoming future through this blog!!
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