Citizenship, as defined by the book, implies active engagement of the individual and the group in an effort to serve the community. A "citizen's mind" is a set of values and beliefs that connects an individual in a responsible manner to others.
I try to display citizenship in many ways as an individual in the Fraternity/Sorority Community. Whenever I hear that a chapter is having a philanthropic event, I always will try to head out and support the event. I make sure that I wear my letters when I go to these events to show that a fellow greek is coming out to support them.
My fraternity needs to do a better job of being a citizen of the Greek Community. We always will attempt to make a team for another fraternity/sorority athletic/philanthropic event, and we remind everyone at chapter about events that are happening during the week. We need to go out be outgoing in the Greek Community. We should be actively trying to meet more sororities and fraternities.
The Greek Community is also semi-active in the overall university community, mostly through moving OWL participants in and being around campus trying to get people to help with their philanthropies. I think that the Greek Community should be involved in planning/running more activities on campus. That way, more people would get to meet greeks and see that the stereotypes are mostly untrue. This change would also hopefully grow our community to the size that President E. Gordon Gee wants it to be.
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