Kevin Powell
 

Did anyone know that Kevin Powell is frat?

http://www.kevinpowellforcongress.org/about_facts/

I wouldn't have known if not for a Brother mentioning it on AlphaEast. I asked him then whens and wheres and I'll share when I find out.

For those that don't know, he was an original cast member of The Real World among many, many other things.

*crash*
I remember Kevin!!!! I professed my fondness for RW season 1 in another thread. That's amazing he's running for Congress, I'm actually really proud of him for staying so involved. Makes all those folks still going on the RR/RW Challenges look kind of lame, huh? ;)

And he looks good! Thanks for posting this, Sen, I'll be tracking his campaign, now.
*end crash*

I heard about this a few months ago from a couple of the brothers in Rho Sigma...apparently he came through one of the NYC undergrad chapters, as he is actually still working on his Bachelor's. ZE chapter, I believe--although given his public persona, I'm fairly sure it was 'strictly by the book.'

umm, that's old news. well, relatively. read about it on a listserv a few months ago (guess cause i'm local and he has lots of fundraisers that greeks are always attending)

I STILL don't understand how he was a teacher on The Real World but is still working on a Bachelors......

well back then, the teaching "rules" werent as strict, right? ie. you necessarily didnt have to finish college?

and hey, it WAS the first season, and their jobs often dont make sense or are very realistic. except the season the cast worked for Upward Bound. that was cool.

He taught at Rutgers though..... it was was definitely collegiate.

Not trying to speak ill of the brother, just wish people would give me a straight answer on him.

There are still people teaching at the collegiate level without college degrees. Not that common but it happens.

I guess it depends on the University and the department. He may have had something that they thought trumped a degree at the time.

I thought the first season of RW was when they actually had their own jobs that they got themselves. I thought it was cool that they didn't work together. :( I didn't know MTV got the jobs for them. That takes the "real world" out of it for me.

yeah, he couldve totally been an adjunct. however, ive never had an adjunct professor that didnt have at least a BA/BS. who knows. i feel like if you know your stuff and will give me an A, why not?

well ill clearly be showing my (lack of) age by telling you i wasnt really old enough to remember RW1 (actually, the earliest i remember is Boston, or was it Miami, or Seattle?). but the seasons i've seen, i believe that the producers set the cast up with a job at some company or organization (wasnt Las Vegas the one where the cast ran the club/bar? and Hawaii did something with a radio station, or something communications-based?)

oh, here's what Wiki says:
so the show started out real, but then I guess "real" didnt pull in numbers, so they created all this other BS to come off as "real."

all this talk about being real, "real," and REAL wears me out. LOL.

Neither have I. And, actually, all of my instructors had PhDs.

I could've sworn that I have heard of a college instructor who had never been to college but was really prolific in some area. This may have been a guest lecturer, though.


Off with your head for not being old enough to have watched RW1! :eek:

RW1 (and maybe RW2?) was the season where they did not share jobs. They were the equivalent of video taped housemates in the real world and nothing more. They had their own professional and social lives and kicked it at the house. :)

LOL

Yes, the post-RW1, MTV-manipulated, RWs drew in numbers. People wanted to see them interact 24/7. Add arguments to the mix (Kevin Powell was the first to blow up at a housemate) and people wanted to see how REAL stuff REALly got once they got tired of each other. I say that after the RW Miami argument about the opened mail, every argument after that was mostly MTV-manipulated.

Oh yeah...back to Kevin Powell being an Alpha, I guess? :)

^^ LOL, yes, back on topic.

Kevin Powell is indeed an Alpha, and my chapter soror is uber-obsessed with him since RW1. now that hes running for office AND is greek, she's mentally had his children already.

RW geek here...
 

They had their own jobs the 1st 3 seasons (NYC, LA, San Fran) I think the thing that killed that is when they set the 4th season in London and the Americans, other than the girl who did a student exchange program, basically sat around the house and did absolutely nothing. Not to mention, I don't think that the places that the other people worked were agreeable to filiming taking place there. After that, their job was always planned by the show.

I can understand that it would be hard to get a job on your own (especially if you're only going to be there a few months) but it was more "real" when they didn't all work together.

yeah Miami was the first time they were given jobs...I remember that's when they changed the intro from

"this is the true story of seven strangers picked to live in a house and have their lives taped...."

they started adding "open a business" "take care of kids" in Miami..

oh yeah they failed LOL

but Kevin is my FAAAAAVORITE RW Cast member!!!!! No one else comes close! Nicole maybe? *whistles*

well London was pretty boring...maybe they thought them having a job would cause drama...it's a hit or miss....personally when the episodes start shifting more towards the work I get bored...this was back when i watched the show..Back to NY being the last full season.

I finally got a straight answer from someone who was actually there, LOL

He finishes his undergrad degree this fall from Pace. By all accounts, he is a truly wonderful brother who went to work straightaway for the fraternity.

(Not that we doubted it, it's more the question of how he seemed so degreed before lol)

Powell is running for public office, correct? I saw something on the news.

BTW, I came across another college instructor without an undergraduate degree. It happens depending on the college and the credentials.

Yeah he's running for Congress in Brooklyn's congressional district... http://www.kevinpowellforcongress.org/

Okay, he's attractive.

I think I need to renounce.

Okay, DUHHHHHHHH...this thread started with that link. My bad.

I saw the blurb on the news and thought it was something I hadn't heard before.

He is attractive. He's not the most attractive, though. Wait to renounce when you find a hottererer frat brother. :)

I know I am late as hayle on this...but, you know I have been very active here in NY for the better part of the past 13 years. I had NO idea. Then again, I don't roll in any shape or form with undergraduates. :cool:

By profession I do mix in the entertainment/(and quasi-political) circles where our colleagues are the same...but Greek life is not generally the topic of our discussion.

Interesting. He is the last dude I would have expected to become a member through an undergraduate chapter at his age...especially, when there as so many fly Alpha graduate chapters in NYC.

It's funny because on Facebook Kevin is on there in his Alpha jacket with 2 AKA's I think....I forgot all about this thread and that he is an Alpha

I am surprised to hear he is a man of Alpha. I have heard some very unflattering things about him. But hey, he is worthy of a redemptive eye like the rest of us, human. ;)