Citizenship

When we hear the word citizenship, often times we think of the word in relation to being a citizen of this country. We think things such as patriotism, being a member of a community, following rules, etc.. etc..
The one thing that stand out to me when thinking about citizenship, is the sense of community that comes with it. This applies to all communities and I take that to mean the greek community as well.

As we've discussed throughout this entire class, we all are members of this community meaning that the actions of one person can affect how the entire community is viewed from the outside student body. So within greek life, I think being a good citizen means always representing greek life in the highest manor and being model citizens by living our ritual and being good members of society.

We've talked about all the C's of the social change model and how each one of our missions incorporates these ideals and this is how our chapters help determine how we act as "citizens" of the greek community. Each one of our mission statements talks about how we each should live our lives inside and out of the greek system and this all strongly ties into being good members of a society, greek or not. I feel that as long as people act congruent with their values that their chapter teaches then they would have no problem acting as good citizen within our community. Then once people act as good citizens within our community then this could only make us look better to the outside world which could only help us recruit better students, and continue to improve our greek community as a whole.