Hey brothers,
I'm doing a presentation to the uMiami chapter on Sunday, and I was hoping to get some ideas. The purpose of the discussion is to remind them to represent their fraternity well. My goal is to get them to remember they are Lambda Chi's throughout this upcoming year, and keep that in the backs of their minds when they decide to drink in letters, bash another brother, be lazy on house duties, uninvolve themselves with recruitment, etc.
So, on the agenda, I'm introducing this idea by having them watch an interview that Jimmy Kimmel had with Brother Will Forte on his latenight talkshow (09/05/07). Here's a website that shows his appearance
http://abc.go.com/latenight/jimmykimmel/index?pn=guests. Also, check out my other forum post
HERE which discusses this actor. Anyway, the interview portrayed fraternity life (specifically LCA) in the, unfortunately, common stereotypical way...drinking and blacking out. So, I was going to show that video and lead the chapter members in a discussion on how much better it would have been if he talked about the positive aspects of our fraternity...our ideals...our brotherly bond...our mission (leadership, scholarship, community service, positive social experience)...our love for our fraternity and the members in it...etc. Now, I understand that wouldn't get as good ratings for the talkshow, but I'm hoping to guide the conversation to get the men to see how they represent our fraternity will affect our publics' perceptions of us.
So, that's the first part of the presentation. The second, I'm hoping, will be a discussion of portraying a positive image of Lambda Chi Alpha. I looked through Brother George Spasyk's "
Reflections" and couldn't find anything, and gave up searching through Greekchat for it. I was thinking the High Theta manual or maybe some text describing "conduct becoming a gentleman". I don't know...it's getting late, and I really want this to be good. So, my question is, "Do you know of any additional resource (maybe a quote, guide, or passage) that could help me with this discussion?" Any ideas? Thanks!
Yours in Z A X ,
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