Last Week's Panel

It was an honor to have such wonderful men and women in the Greek community come and talk to our leadership class. I'm sure they were curious about what kind of questions they were going to be asked and what exactly a "panel" would entail. However, I feel like they really enjoyed themselves.


One major point I took away from this experience was when one of my classmates asked,

"What's one piece of advice you would give to current Greek students at OSU?"

One woman, a Chi Omega, responded that she believed the major piece of advice she would give would be to become more involved with the entire community, not just your own. She mentioned how one of her favorite memories at Chi O at OSU was when they would have a sisterhood with a sorority in another council, Alpha Kappa Alpha. They invited the women to their house and hung out and got to know each other for a few hours. She encouraged us to do the same, and to try to reach out to the different men and women in the other councils as well as our own.

I would love to take her advice. My sorority could easily do events such as these and participate in sisterhoods with other sororities. I feel like we do too much with fraternities sometimes and not enough with other fraternities. Plus, I feel like we would learn a lot about the other amazing women at our University in this way.

Another piece of information I took from the panel was when one of the men talked about his time as President of his fraternity when he was just a sophomore, and the way it felt to lose his position when he was a Junior. He talked to us about how he felt crushed at that moment but grew to accept it. He said he respected the new President, and because this new official was his brother, loved him anyway. This is a good showing of true brotherhood, and made me realize how important it is to respect and be proud of your brothers and sisters. 

ALSO, shout out to JOSIAH who did an awesome job at the pep rally last night!! :)

And, as shown in Stephen's post, please keep J.R. in your thoughts and prayers.

Loyally,

Annalise