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42 Fraternities and Sororities to Change Campus Alcohol Attitudes
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42 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES FORM COALITION TO CHANGE CAMPUS ALCOHOL ATTITUDES
Forty-two national and international fraternities and sororities – representing more than 60% of all undergraduates who are members of Greek organizations – today announced the formation of The Genesis Group, an historic consortium that will work together to implement a Program For Change to modify the culture of high-risk alcohol consumption that has manifested itself on college campuses across America and within campus Greek organizations.
“The major problem on college campuses is high risk drinking, and we want to make it clear that the Greek community wants to be part of the solution,” said Norval Stephens, co-chair of The Genesis Group and chair of the Delta Tau Delta Educational Foundation. “While there is a great deal of work underway now dealing with the relationship of the problem with Greek letter organizations and their members, this coordinated effort with the combined wisdom and perspectives of 42 fraternities and sororities will effect positive change. We believe that the Program For Change is the broadest program yet proposed, and the first one with combined Greek participation and support.”
The Genesis Group will begin its work by selecting one or two college campuses as test sites and will actively participate with the administrations in developing and executing a long-term program to change student alcohol culture. Research by the Harvard School of Public Health suggests Greek organizations are the only subset of the student population in which high-risk drinking has declined in the last decade.
“Our rate of alcohol consumption is still high, we recognize, but we are showing progress when no other major student segment showed a similar decline,” notes Nancy Leonard, co-chair of the Genesis Group and interim executive director of Alpha Chi Omega. “Greek units are making strides in combating the problem because they are programming against alcohol abuse. The per capita investment by fraternities and sororities in alcohol counter-programming is, we believe, higher than that provided by any college or university, and it has had a measurable effect.”
Recent studies show that 44 percent of college students binge drink at least biweekly and blame drinking by college students for 1,400 deaths, 500,000 injuries, 600,000 assaults and more than 70,000 sexual assaults among students. The Genesis Group believes the issue of high-risk drinking on college campuses must be attacked comprehensively, persuasively and persistently. Its Program For Change is based on the experience of Greek organizations, recommendations of those institutes that research the problem, and the advice of experts in alcohol abuse. The Program For Change is a blueprint to address this cultural problem.
Research conducted by the Newton, MA-based Outside The Classroom, which involved approximately 15,000 first-year students at American colleges last fall, found that more than 50% arrived on campus as “abstainers” from alcohol, but by Christmas break of their first semester the percentage dropped to 20%, approximately the level of abstainers among all college students in the Harvard study. Outside The Classroom also found that, over the same period, the percentage of heavy or binge drinkers climbed from 24% to 63%. “This demonstrates a cultural problem – drinking among underage students – one that is exacerbated in the first months of college, a time when most of these students are in college dormitories and not members of Greek organizations,” Stephens said. “This is a 100% problem, one not confined to the 10% of college students who belong to Greek chapters,” he added.
Later this year, the Genesis Group will begin the search for one or two colleges that would want to participate in a five-year program to change collegiate alcohol attitudes and behavior. “This is a deep and pervasive societal problem, but based on our experiences in the Greek system, we are confident that we can be a force for positive cultural change. Fraternities and sororities are part of the problem, and I believe we can be a large part of the solution,” Stephens said. “This will be a long haul, but, as the Chinese proverb says: Every journey begins with the one step.”
The Program For Change is comprised of three fundamental elements: presidential leadership, student involvement and a long-range plan. Programming elements include a student code of conduct, campus coalition for change, review of the judicial process, attitude change programming, a community coalition, increased social options, leadership education, specific Greek programming, admissions programming, security enhancements, campus health services, and research feedback. A synopsis of the Program for Change is attached.
The fraternities and sororities participating in The Genesis Group are : Acacia, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Kappa Lambda, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, Alpha Sigma Alpha, Alpha Sigma Phi, Alpha Tau Omega, Alpha Xi Delta, Beta Theta Pi, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon, Delta Zeta, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Order, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Tau, Phi Sigma Kappa, Pi Beta Phi, Pi Kappa Phi, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma Kappa, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Theta Chi, Triangle, and Zeta Tau Alpha.
Fraternities and sororities that wish to join the Genesis Group and colleges and universities interested in more information on the Genesis Group may contact Jim Russell, executive vice president of Delta Tau Delta, (317) 284-0210; or Nancy Leonard, interim executive director of Alpha Chi Omega, (317) 579-5050.
The Genesis Group seeks to bring together the leadership of the Greek organizations To create an initiative to change the culture of a high-risk alcohol environment That has manifested itself on campuses and within Greek organizations.
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