Strengths

What are the strengths of your chapter and in what ways does your chapter need to improve?

The strengths that my chapter posses is good characters within the frat, a great brotherhood, and great services for the community. Every fraternity posses certain qualities, but some chapters do not represent their organizations as well as others. Kappa Alpha Psi has had programs,events, service, etc. We are all about helping the community change. NOW just like every chapter has Ups, they also have downs. I first off do not want to down any brother in my fraternity so I will speak in general from past years in my fraternity, most of these downs are a lot of other organizations falls as well.
Some of the things that we need to improve on is the lack of participation with some of the members. That is a big problem I have with members in organizations. Why would you go through a "intake process" whether it is a weekend retreat with your members, learning history about the organization, or paying for membership. That all takes money and time, so why not use it to the best of your ability? I hate to see "T-Shirt wearer" or a "skater" on campus. What is a "T-shirt wearer" and a Skater you ask? A T-shirt wear is a person that just comes to the social events to wear your letters. Haven't put no time in working within the frat or sorority, but would be the first one at a party,or in a picture. A Skater is basically the same thing, but always finds a way to get out of WORK!!! If some one needs a member to do something for a program or an upcoming event, the "Skater" will always be busy and unable to help with the program or event. That is something that EVERYONE needs to improve on, doesn't matter what council your in, we all have them. If we care more about our selection process of these members and focus on their work ethic in books, as well as the community it might be able to weed most but NOT all of the skaters out. Another thing that I feel like my organization has a problem with for years is protocol. Men have a certain pride and at times and do not want to listen to people that are in the higher positions because they feel that they are on the same level as their brothers. It is very hard to penalize members in a fraternity.




What are the strengths of your council and in what ways does your council need to change?

The strengths for my council has grown ALOT since I have been a part of NPHC. Me and Leo are the oldest (initiation date) on the council, I have seen 4 different council exec boards so far and I would have to say that we have improved greatly and this is probably the most efficient exec board so far from my knowledge. We are starting to get a lot of things in order such as the by-laws, and Constitution. A good thing about our NPHC exec board, we all know what is missing and what needs to be changed in our council and we are willing to put time (which we have so far) in to help change it. I feel one of our challenges in our council is outsiders. A lot people including administrators, peers, and other frats sororities do not understand us at all. People just look at us as dangerous black "groups" that can entertain people with step shows and strolls. THAT IS NOT THE CASE! as everyone in this class knows ; NPHC is definitely not that at all. I feel like at times OSU is going to take our Greek culture and our organizations away from us. Hopefully that's not the case, but this I would say would be the hardest fall that we need to improve.


What are the strengths of our community and in what ways does our community need to change?

This is probly the hardest question our of the three. I feel like we can only change our community so much. When one person is helping to fix the world, there is always 2 different people trying to destroy it; and that's the problem. Maybe we can help our Campus community better, but as far as the outside commuinty who doesn't understand greek life or college life at that, it would be a greater challege to change them. The only strength I feel our community has is school pride. Everyone loves being a Buckeye, but when it comes a time to support certain events or programs, it seems to be lost. So sorry I do not have a good answer to this question but maybe someone can comment on this and give me some ideas of the strength and weaknesses of our community.