96-04-10 Greeks Having Leadership Training

OHIO STATE'S GREEK COMMUNITY JOINS FOR TEAM EFFORT

     COLUMBUS -- Some 105 Ohio State University students 
representing 52 greek organizations at Ohio State will spend a 
weekend working, sharing and creating as a TEAM during a 
leadership retreat at Mohican State Park April 12 - 14.

     TEAM, Together Everyone Accomplishes More, is a retreat for 
current and potential leaders of greek organizations designed to 
develop leadership skills and further promote unity within 
fraternities and sororities.

     "The weekend is designed to allow the students to enjoy a 
fun, learning experience while developing themselves as leaders 
and enabling them to return to their chapters with new visions to 
promote change," said Tracy Stuck, acting director of the Office 
of Student Organization Services and coordinator of greek 
affairs.

     The students will room with members of different greek 
organizations and take part in team building exercises to take a 
proactive approach to dealing with various issues in their 
communities, Stuck said.

     Workshops on goal setting, ethical decision making, gender 
and communication, non-alcoholic programming and leadership 
styles will be facilitated by David Williams, vice president for 
student affairs, and other campus representatives as well as 
representatives from the national offices of the fraternities and 
sororities.

     The goal of the workshops is to promote team work and 
ethical decision making, develop community wide goals and 
identify change agents.

     "We want to break down the stereotypes and have the 
participants come away with the realization that they all have 
commonalties," Stuck said.  "This is one way to get the greek 
community up and going again in a positive direction."

     TEAM originated as part of an initiative by representatives 
of Phi Kappa Tau and Delta Gamma fraternities at the University 
of Idaho.  TEAM Idaho held a retreat in 1995 that led a number of 
universities to embrace the program.

     "We are excited to be the first Big Ten University to 
participate in TEAM and to bring the Greek community together to 
facilitate change," Stuck said.  "We feel it is a great success 
already."

     Funding for the retreat comes from the participants and 
through a grant from the Office of Student Affairs.

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Contact: Tracy Stuck, acting director of the Office of Student 
Organization Services, (614) 688-4145.
Written by Tracy Turner. 


[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
               
Wed, 10 Apr 1996 15:47:26 -0400]
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