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Plans to Start New National Sorority, Fraternity on Mars Hill Campus Come from BSA
By Malaree Wallace
Two students involved with the Black Student Assocation are trying to start a new fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi, and a new sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, on campus. The two organizations may be unfamiliar to people at Mars Hill College.
Ciara Felder, president of the Black Students Association (BSA), and Justin Derr, vice president of BSA, are two students who are trying to get the national fraternity and sorority on campus.
Delta Sigma Theta, also known as “DST” or the “Deltas,” is a sorority about “bringing women together in an everlasting sisterhood positive way.” The sorority helps the community through community service, as is required of Greek organizations, and it also pushes women to be successful in whatever they do.
Kappa Alpha Psi, also known as the “Kappas,” follows the purpose of achievement. Kappas seek to promote the development and advancement of undergraduate members into graduate and professional schools through effective mentoring and advocacy.
To establish the Deltas and the Kappas on campus, some steps had to be taken. Both Felder and Derr had to turn in applications to the Campus Activity Board where the applications had to be approved by the Inner Greek Council (IGC). Derr also spoke in front of IGC and the student affairs council. Both DST and the Kappas were approved to be on campus.
The national headquarters for the Deltas has been contacted, and a request was sent for an application, which will be received next semester. Derr, with the help of Murphie Culpepper, assistant dean of student affairs, contacted nationals and the southeastern regional Greek leadership so the Kappa fraternity would visit campus and talk to students who may be interested in the fraternity.
With several sororities and fraternities on campus to choose from, why have more?
“DST would bring culture to our campus since it’s one of the many African American sororities,” Felder said.
She said she also believes that bringing Deltas to campus would bring more African American females to MHC and would help with retention. This would be the first time the sorority would be organized on Mars Hill’s campus, making it the first predominantly black sorority.
“There needs to be more national fraternities on MHC’s campus,” Derr said. He said bringing another fraternity on campus may help keep Mars Hill students from transferring.
The fraternity has been on Mars Hill’s campus before in 1988-89.
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