Incongruency

I know that all of our chapters try hard to live our values but we don't always do the best job at it.

I think in the greek community one of the biggest issues we have is talking bad about other chapters - we compare each other, look at who gets paired up with who for events and read greekrank.com but this takes away from the fact that we talk about being one big, unified community. Wasting time and effort trying to figure out the irrelevant question of who is better than who takes away from time we should be spending to promote the greek community - let people know that each chapter is unique and great in its own way and that their is a chapter for every person who wants to be involved.


Going along with this I think of all the other things we could do with our time that would improve our community. A lot of the time we plan social events and don't put as much attention on our philanthropies and service. If we wouldn't worry about who our next tg will be with and what the theme is, we could use our efforts to plan a fundraiser or volunteer outside of events that count towards standards of excellence. All of our chapters think highly of service and philanthropy but yet they don't always seem like priorities. We can elevate ourselves above what is stereotypical of greek life and put the emphasis back on the values which we pledged to uphold.


In Alpha Gam I know that these things happen at times. Sometimes, just like in many other chapters, we forget to follow our purpose and let things happen that go against what we value. I do know though that we are working on more philanthropy events and ways to get involved, which is one way to fix our incongruencies.

As both individual chapters and as a community we can improve our actions as long as we remember we are...