What Positive Things Has Your Chapter Done?
I want to show the world that Greeks around the entire country and world are a positive influence on their university campuses! I’m working with Greeks around the entire world in an effort to show the rest of the non-Greek public what being Greek is really all about.
Scroll all the way to the bottom of this webpage to leave a note about your chapter!
What Started This Movement?
Please read the article at my other blog (click here to see it) if you haven’t already regarding the “drug bust” that occurred at San Diego State University on Tuesday May 6th. Of the SDSU students that were arrested in the incident, a select few were members of various SDSU fraternities.
The media has been focusing on these particular fraternities much more then they’ve been focusing on the entire situation that occured. They’re given the entire Greek community a really bad representation. I’ve been speaking with numerous media contacts, have given interviews, and have shown them my article. However, they seem to refuse to show a positive statement about Greeks on the television and I feel that something needs to be done.
I’ve taken things into my own hands and want to work with other Greeks around the country.
Scroll all the way to the bottom of this webpage to leave a note!
Step 1:
Post Your Fraternity or Sorority Name
Step 2:
Post the School You’re Affiliated With
Step 3:
Briefly describe a positive thing that you have done as a Greek on your campus.
How Will Your Stories Be Used?
I’ll be compiling all of this information onto the GreeksDoGreatThings.com website in the coming days. This website is going to be used to show the entire world that Greeks are a positive influence on campuses around the entire country.
Spread the Word to the World!
- please email this to your friends by clicking
Tell A Friend - please join the facebook group at by clicking here and invite all your friends. Even if you only invite a few friends (like 5-10 people), this is a huge help!
- tell the world you’re greek, you’re proud, you’re positive!
I look forward to hearing about all the great things Greek’s have done around the entire country.
Tags: frat, san diego state, sdsu
May 9th, 2008 at 5:08 am
My name is Nick Kwok. I’m a representative of Sigma Phi Epsilon Cal Delta Chapter of San Diego State University.
Before I touch on what our fraternity does for the community, I just want to say how much of a positive impact Greek Life has had on my life and hopefully has on many others.
I was a bit skeptical about going Greek because of stereotypes that I’ve seen and heard on television and whatnot–In fact, the first semester of college, I completely avoided it. I was going through a really tough time in my life after my first semester of college and decided that I needed to make a change. I decided to go Greek but in all honesty, the top reason I went Greek wasn’t for brotherhood at the time, definitely not for the parties considering that I do not drink or do drugs, but it was for a spiteful reason because of a certain someone. What’s funny is that this spiteful act quickly became one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life–it has completely transformed my life from a depressed, lackadaisical, suicidal wreck into helping me become the charismatic, diligent human being who is on the everlasting pursuit of excellence that I am now.
The fraternity that I am in is a non-hazing fraternity and our number one goal is to create balanced leaders for the world and open the door of opportunity for every single brother in our house. We believe that going Greek is a quest to develop a greater of self(everything from self-esteem to self-criticism). In becoming Greek, I have discovered a completely new meaning to the word brotherhood in that it is not just being friends with a person but it is learning to be responsible for one another, the desire to help a brother in need and having a passion to see each and every brother succeed. Going Greek has given me lifelong friends. Going Greek has taught me that nothing is impossible if one truly commits himself to excellence and manages his time well. Being in a fraternity has taught me how to set and achieve high goals, how to push myself and what it takes to be a successful and inspirational leader.
Going Greek has completely turned my life around and I’m sure it has done the same for many of my fellow brothers.
Not many people see or hear about the community service events, the outreach for leadership and just positive sides of Greek life in general. The moment something negative happens in the Greek community, media, students, faulty and staff and sometimes even fellow Greek are quick to jump to conclusions, resort to stereotypes and pin the blame on the whole Greek community while the whole community may be completely oblivious to the wrongful acts that are being committed. There are so many accomplishments SDSU Greeks have achieved that go undermined. Here are a few of ours:
We are proud to say that we push each member to be scholars and have had the highest GPA on campus for multiple consecutive semesters.
We have endeavors to help the community as much as possible. Some of the events that we have participated in are:
-Bowling with those who suffer from Cognitive Disorders
-Repainting the U.S.S. Midway
-Setup and helped to make the Art Galla for Kids at KBPS television station a success
-The M.S. walk annually
-Jenny’s Walk for children with special needs
-YMCA
-Fundraised money from Philanthropies that went towards SDSU and Little League Hilltoppers
-Big Brothers and Big Sisters of San Diego
We are always looking for ways to give to the community.
Many members from SigEp hold positions in a newly created committee called ‘The Green Love’ Committee which is committed to improve the sustainability of the San Diego State Campus and surrounding communities.
Our fraternity promotes leadership in and outside of the house and we have many members who hold AS positions as well as presidencies and vice presidencies of campus clubs.
We are a fraternity based on the love of God and we encourage our members to pursue their faiths together as well as live faithfully.
San Diego State has recently become involved with Greek Intervarsity which is a way for all Greeks to come and explore faith together. Needless to say, my fraternity is the reason I have developed such an amazing relationship with God for I have brothers who will guide myself and each to live diligently and faithfully as beseech the day.
This is just our fraternity alone. Greek life at SDSU only wants to give to the community and to others. My heart and prayers truly go out to those who have suffered from the recent turn of events with the drug bust.
A special thank you to Jon for giving Greeks the opportunity to show and speak to the world about our endeavors to the campus, community and members.
-Nick Kwok
May 9th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
On Monday night (the day before the “drug bust”), SDSU had the Unity Night awards night where fraternities and sororities were recognized for their accomplishments.
It needs to be noted that it was at Unity Night where it was announced that the entire Greek Community at SDSU was successful in raising $30,000 for the wheelchair foundation. Not only that, but a few members of the Greek system used their business networking skills (which they learn in the Greek system) to get a community organization to match our donation!
That means the entire Greek community (all SDSU houses working together) was responsible for a $60,000 donation to the wheelchair foundation.
That shows that Greeks can do great things, not just as individual houses, but working together as a Greek Community
May 9th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
The Sigma Nu Fraternity at SDSU raised $5,150 for the American Red Cross Fire Relief Fund in November of 2007 to benefit the thousands of families that lost their homes in October of 2007. Most money was donated straight from alumni of the chapter and families of current members. Sigma Nu (along with several other SDSU Greeks) also sent over a dozen active members to the Qualcomm evacuation site the day the fires broke out.
May 12th, 2008 at 2:32 am
My name is Jeff Goodall, Jr. and I am a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon Cal Delta Chapter at San Diego State University. I think one of the greatest things we did as a house come during the first semester when the Wild Fires took over San Diego County leaving many individuals without contact to family members, without day to day necessities and without housing. Although my family was lucky to not lose our house, several other families in our neighborhood were not as lucky. Our community lost six houses out of ten on our particular block. Thankfully, the individuals of Sig Ep took it upon themselves to drive up to Poway, CA (about 35 min north of SDSU’s campus) and help clear debris, as well as, clear dry brush away from housing. There was a total of nearly 200 hours of service put in by a small group of individuals in just over a day and a half of work.
Furthermore, our chapter also took part in raising money for this years Autism Walk, which due to the Wild Fires was cancelled. During the month prior to what would have been the date of the event, 100 members of Sig Ep joined the World Famous Rhino team to collectively raise/gather $33,000 that went to aid in the research for the cure for Autism.
Finally, a group of seven individuals from the Cal Delta chapter of Sig Ep were formally inducted as new members of fratManers (Fraternity Men Against Negative Environments And Rape Situations), an organization and class here on SDSU’s campus that studies the risks and statistics associated with being a female rape victim; studying ways to prevent & eliminate rape around the campus. In doing so, we hope to not only raise awareness about rape and the fact that it is still largely an issue, but also show individuals that not all fraternity members are concerned with the party scene, as much as, they’re concerned about making a difference and positive influence around the campus community.
May 12th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Sigma Nu Fraternity at CSUN raised approximately over $5000 for St. Jude’s Childrens’ Hospital for the past 3 years. Money is collected from friend’s, family, brothers, and alumni then sent to the hospital in order to help kids suffering from cancer. Also Sigma Nu Fraternity as well as all Greek organizations at CSUN participate in a massive street clean-up that helps keep the immediate community around the campus clean and safe.
May 12th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Sigma Chi at Cal State Northridge raised a record breaking $13,000 for children’s hospital this last semester. We also adopted a street with regular street clean ups right here in our own community making the surrounding campus and our own community more respected and more beloved by all men and women. That was only this last semester. I can go on about how many people we have helped in my few years as a member of this Fraternity.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
My name is Scott Webster. I am a member of Delta Upsilon at the Ohio State University. I am not on here to brag about my own single chapter, but to bring attention to the entire greek community at OSU.
The community is a very tight group of men and women, who interact in all aspects of life. Chapters at Ohio State sponsor activities for the entire campus, Just this year Phi Gamma Delta and Alpha Chi Omega, hosted and event called “It’s Abuse” to show what abuse is and have people tell their experiences about being abused both physically and psychologically. Inter-Fraternity Council, Pan-Hellenic Association, and Tau Kappa Epsilon hosted an event about DUI and the effects that it has years down the line.
http://ohiounion.osu.edu/greek_life/ this website is the official OSU Greeks website that goes into more detail than I can sit here and tell. Feel free to check it out and look around. Along with this there are plenty of great things left off the site. Every year the Community comes out in full force for “Rock the Block” a campus wide community service for the University area as well as the city and many other things that I could go on and on about.
May 12th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
At Penn State University the IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon raised $6,615,318.04 for pediatric cancer this year; over a million more than was raised in the previous year.
check out THON.org for more information!
May 13th, 2008 at 4:48 am
Here at UC Davis, Pi Beta Phi raised around $10,000 in just a few hours which was 100% donated to a bunch of our different Literacy charities. Each year our chapter’s philanthropy funds run out, so come Spring, most of our girls pay our of pocket to join in any of the other amazing chances at campus. This quarter alone we’ve had over 15 different philanthropy events; the quarter started the last week of March. On a different track, Pi Phi and SAE had a ball with one of our Senior Retirement communities, pretty much just for fun! And helping local elementary schools with literacy by reading to or being read to by the kids is always so fun! Honestly, the parties are cool, but the volunteering and helping others is the best part!