[Kevin]

My chapter has a Japanese member. He is actually gone right now, he was one of the 35 people chosen by his country to be a Japanese Student Ambassador (an honor that is shared by people like Henry Kissinger and the former PM of Japan (not sure what his real title was) during WWII). Anyhow, it's a REAL honor. This guy brought with him a very different way of looking at things (it's not every member that can stand up in meetings and quote Confucious). He was also very involved around campus, ate dinner with the President of the University every week.. He's actually one of the founding fathers of our chapter. I think ATO has a Morroccan student at our school. We're VERY open to international students and are actually targetting that as one of the groups we want to go after during Fall Recruitment.

I can't promise that anything, but what I have seen from international students getting involved in the Greek system in the US is purely positive. For our member he made a tremendous effort to get involved in the US culture. This was great! I think he taught us a lot about diversity and the world in general and we taught him about ourselves. He is truly 'one of us', as he put it he's a Japanese Oklahoman in Tokyo.

LHT
Kevin
MT #5
University of Central Oklahoma