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The Red and Black » Tuesday, October 9, 1990 « 3
Greek organizations have largest population ever
Jy stacey McIntosh
Staff Writer
University fraternities and soro
rities boasted unprecedented
service hours and memberships
.ast vear and are continuing the
trend this quarter.
Athens non-profit organizations
rely heavily on the University’s
Greek organizations, which accu
mulated over 22,000 service hours
and 5,400 members in 1989.
"This is the largest Greek pop
ulation ever on campus,” Ron
Binder, adviser to fraternities,
said. “There are as many Greeks as
there are people in housing. It’s
very popular to be Greek.”
Sorority members totaled 2,684
in the spring of 1989, according to
Claudia Shamp, adviser to sorori
ties.
The University’s 15 sororities
did 8,869 hours of community
service and made $22,620 in con
tributions to charities last year,
she said.
Binder said University fraterni
ties nearly doubled their service
hours with an increase from 8,000
in 1988-89 to 14,100 in 1989-90.
“Philanthropy projects are not
done for public relations,” Shamp
said. “We have to put a focus on
giving back to the campus and
community.”
The University’s Greek mem
bership is twice the national av
erage which falls in the 10 to 15
percent bracket, Binder said.
University fraternities also
claim an 82 percent retention rate,
the same as the University’s
freshman class, he said.
Theta Chi had the highest reten
tion rate, 100 percent in 1989; Phi
Delta Theta and Alpha Gamma
Rho had the lowest, 63 percent.
Binder estimated that 25 per
cent of undergraduate males are in
a fraternity.
“Students want to affiliate with
a group. A lot of students come
from small high schools and they
are overwhelmed by 30,000 stu
dents. Everyone is looking for a
subgroup,” he said.
Binder said students choose fra
ternities and sororities because
they have more to offer than other
campus organizations.
He quoted statistics which
showed that fraternity and sorority
members earned higher grade
point averages and had higher
graduation rates than non-Greeks.
Fraternity men compiled an
overall GPA of 2.62 in 1989, out
ranking non-Greek males academi
cally for the first time in 20 years.
Sorority women earned a 2.87
GPA in the spring of 1989 com
pared to 2.74 for non-Greek
women.
Also, 70 percent of fraternity
and sorority members graduate
after five years of college while
only 50 percent of non-Greeks com
plete degree programs in that
amount of time, Binder said.
“Our groups push members to
Community Service Hours:
Fraternity & Sorority Membership
□ Fraternity
■ Sorority
2,888
2.286
□ Fraternity
■ Sorority
Stephen Mofoekl/The Red and Black
excel when they are undergrad
uates and do things they wouldn’t
normally do," he said.
For example, the service aspect.
Binder said many chapters nave
passed bylaws requiring members
to put in a certain number of
service hours, which creates com
petition among fraternities.
“It’s a good learning experience,”
he said. “Some have never been ex
posed to a needy environment.”
Many volunteer at the Athens
Homeless Shelter and also work
with United Way and the Athens
Community Centers.
Venus Jarrell, assistant director
of the East Athens Center, said
about 150 Greeks help out at the
center every week, but admitted
that most of the Greek service po
tential is untapped.
“We don’t ever see the whole
5,000," Jarrell said. ‘The ones that
come do a good job. They definitely
make a difference, but we could al
ways use more.”
He said the Black Greek Com
mittee, a subcommittee of the In-
terfratemity Council, does most of
ita service projects at the center.
BGC works daily in the tutorial
program and big brother/big sister
programs. In addition, its annual
Halloween carnival at the center is
next on the agenda, Brian Hooks,
Bar owners see little profit in hour extension
By JENNIFER DERUELLE
Contributing Writer
While most bar owners generally
approve of the recently extended
weekday drinking hours, O’Mal
ley’s owner, Ken Fulghum, said the
extension is a drop in the bucket
compared to what staying open
until 1 a.m. on Saturdays would do
for business.
However, Fulghum said he
doesn’t have plans to push the
Athens City Council or the Clarke
County Commission for later Sat
urday bar hours because even
tually it will have to happen.
“It is a matter of economics,” he
said. “Our Berlin Wall will be tom
down when money dictates it.”
Instead of lobbying the local gov
ernments, Fulghum hopes to bring
about change through his vote in
the Nov. 6 election.
‘The best way to express my
point of view is with my vote,”
Fulghum said. “I will endorse a lib
eral candidate.”
Although Fulghum would trade
his newly gained weekday hours
for one additional hour on Sat
urday nights, the weekday exten
sion “shows a bit of progress and a
step in the right direction," he said.
The council voted last Tuesday
to extend weekday bar service
until 2 a.m. afler much emotional
testimony was given by Athens res
idents on both sides of the issue.
John Beckham, owner of The
Odyssey, said that 25 or 30 people
stayed for the extra hour Friday
night, but that financially “it did
not make a big difference. I have to
keep people on the payroll an extra
hour, though.”
Chris Siceloff, manager of E.T.’s
Hangar, said sales increased and
he expects "an increase in food and
alcohol sales on band nights be
cause bands can keep people in.”
Joe Fitzpatrick, manager of
Spanky’s Restaurant and Sports
Bar, said that between 15 and 25
people stayed until 2 a.m. Friday.
“It is a particular group staying
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students tnan anything else.”
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Fitzpatrick, answering local con
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lead to more drunkenness and
more drunk driving, said he didn’t
notice customers drinking more.
The council voted last
Tuesday to extend
weekday bar service
until 2 a.m.
“Customers are not drinking
more, they are just drinking
longer,” he said.
head of BGC, said.
Also, an “All-Greek Step Show”
is tentatively scheduled for March
9 to benefit black University stu
dents. BGC will award a $500
scholarship to a black female and a
black male, Hooks, dean of pledges
of Alpha Phi Alpha, said.
Hooks said his fraternity hosts
“Project Alpha,” which was held at
Clarke Central High School
Monday. Members presented a
program on how males can assume
the responsibility of preventing
teenage pregnancy.
Although BGC is not limited to
black members, Binder said black
greek organizations are more
service-oriented than their white
counterparts.
‘There is no question that the
black Greeks do more than the
white Greeks,” he said. ‘The black
community needed to uplift itself
and establish a foundation here.”
Several philanthropic institu
tions work with United Way of
Northeast Georgia.
‘Theta Chi has us as an ongoing
project,” Misty Jay, assistant di
rector of United Way, said.
The fraternity organizes a field
day for the Boys’ Club of Athens,
one of United Way’s 26 organiza
tions.
‘The boys think it’s neat to have
some guys from college come and
spend time with them,” she said.
“Some of those guys don’t have
anyone to go home to.”
In addition, she said Phi Kappa
Tau recently donated $675 raised
during a tug-of-war match.
Theta Chi and Delta Tau Delta
also make United Way the benefi
ciary of their volleyball tourna
ments, Jay said.
While emphasizing that all phil
anthropic institutions were wel
come to serve United Way, Jay said
she was surprised that so few orga
nizations actually did.
“It’s incredible to me that people
haven’t worked with United Way
more because we have 26 different
organizations that need help,” she
said.
Binder said charity is the
founding principle of fraternities
and sororities, adding that IFC and
the Panhellenic Council allot 10
percent of their budgets for
charity.
But he admitted that service
hours do not always equal the po
tential of each fraternity.
For instance, Sigma Alpha Ep
silon had the most members in
1989, 121, but accumulated only
235 service hours. Phi Gamma
Delta put in 3,087 service hours
last year with only 91 members.
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