NATIONAL PRESS RELEASES: Theta Nu Xi

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Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. Announces Installation of Twenty-Ninth Undergraduate Colony

Mahwah, NJ – April 5, 2009 – The founders of the local chapter of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. introduced themselves today to the community during a public performance on the campus of Ramapo College of New Jersey.

The Sorority established its second New Jersey-based undergraduate entity in a private ceremony on April 3, 2009. The Alpha Theta Colony represents the twenty-ninth undergraduate installation of the national organization and the forty-fourth entity among the organization’s undergraduate and Graduate, Alumnae and Professional (GAP) colonies and chapters which are maintained by over 800 initiated women.

The Alpha Theta Colony’s four founding members of Irish, Puerto Rican, Australian, Russian and Polish descent concluded a year-and-a-half long effort to establish the colony at Ramapo College of New Jersey where they will seek to align with eight other cultural and multicultural sororities and fraternities comprising the United Cultural Greek Council (UCGC).

Members of the Alpha Theta Colony of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. will promote multiculturalism and facilitate the movement from tolerance to deep respect for the beauty of difference through educational, cultural and social events.

Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. was founded on April 11, 1997, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a mission to promote leadership, multiculturalism, and self-improvement through academic excellence, involvement in and service to the campus and community, as well as being living examples of sisterhood across different races, cultures, religions, backgrounds, and lifestyles. To learn more about Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc., visit www.thetanuxi.org.

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Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. Announces Installation of 30th Undergraduate Colony

Plattsburgh, NY, United States, 04/11/2010 - Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. welcomes new colony.

The founders of the local colony of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. introduced themselves today to the community during a public performance on the campus of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh (Plattsburgh State).

The Sorority established its third New York-based undergraduate entity in a private ceremony on April 10, 2010. The Alpha Iota Colony represents the 30th undergraduate installation of the national organization and the 45th entity among the organization’s undergraduate and Graduate, Alumnae and Professional (GAP) colonies and chapters, which are maintained by nearly 1,000 initiated women.

The Alpha Iota Colony’s six founding members of African-American, Puerto Rican, Bengali, Bamileke, Ghanaian, Nigerian, Dominican American, German and Polish descent concluded a two-year effort to establish the colony at the Plattsburgh State where they will seek to align with existing Greek organizations.

The Alpha Iota Colony of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. will become the first historically-multicultural national Greek letter organization at the University and its members will promote multiculturalism and facilitate the movement from tolerance to deep respect for the beauty of difference through educational, cultural and social events.

Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. (thetanuxi.org) was founded on April 11, 1997, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a mission to promote leadership, multiculturalism, and self-improvement through academic excellence, involvement in and service to the campus and community, as well as being living examples of sisterhood across different races, cultures, religions, backgrounds, and lifestyles.

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For Immediate Release
September 8, 2010

Kim Novak of NovakTalks to Deliver Keynote at 12th Annual National Convention
of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc.

Los Angeles, CA – More than 100 women coming together for the 12th annual national convention of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. will have an opportunity to participate in bystander intervention training facilitated by Kim Novak, a recognized national expert in student-focused risk management, hazing prevention and campus safety.

The convention, held from September 9 – 12, 2010, will provide a forum for the Sorority’s membership to reflect on the organization’s progress and growth over the preceding 13 years. This occasion will also mark the beginning of a focused, proactive initiative to educate the Sorority’s members on the legal and interpersonal import of risk management and bystander intervention.

Novak—an independent consultant for Campus Safety, Student Risk Management and Student Organization Development—has previously presented at national conferences and on college campuses around the country. She has served on the faculty of several nationally sponsored professional institutes including the National Interdisciplinary Hazing Intervention Institute, renamed the Kimberly Novak Hazing Prevention Institute in 2010 in her honor.

Novak, a former review board member of the U.S. Department of Education Higher Education Center for Alcohol Other Drug and Violence Prevention Review Group, currently serves as a Center Fellow. She maintains professional consulting partnerships with Margolis, Healy & Associates, LLC, an internationally recognized campus safety consulting team, as well as Symplicity, an award-winning organization that is reinventing information technology (IT) consulting.

At the upcoming convention, Novak will offer comprehensive workshops for the general membership. She will also train membership officers in bystander intervention and risk management methods, informing both membership intake and development, and day-to-day chapter operations.

Amanda Tomchak, national president of the Sorority expresses excitement “for the opportunity to have Ms. Novak educate [the] membership on such important issues.” Tomchak reflects further, “It is important that we take advantage of the fact that our organization is very young and become proactive in educating our members on serious topics such as risk management and hazing prevention. I am proud to lead Theta Nu Xi in this important initiative and am grateful to have Ms. Novak supporting our endeavor.”

Novak will deliver the keynote address at the Sorority’s 10th annual Butterfly Banquet on Saturday, integrating the message of her training workshops with the efforts of the Sorority’s national administration to present the new initiative in a positive and motivating way.

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Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. was founded on April 11, 1997, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a mission to promote leadership, multiculturalism, and self-improvement through academic excellence, involvement in and service to the campus and community, as well as being living examples of sisterhood across different races, cultures, religions, backgrounds, and lifestyles. To learn more about Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. visit www.thetanuxi.org.

CONTACT: Rashida Rawls, Director of Communications, Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc., e-mail: director_communications@thetanuxi.org

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For Immediate Release
September 13, 2010

Major Structural Change Sanctioned at 12th Annual National Convention
of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc.

Los Angeles, CA – Voting members of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. have enacted the most significant structural change to the 13–year–old organization since the ratification of its founding constitution.

At the Sorority’s 12th annual national convention this past weekend, September 9–12, a delegation of undergraduate and Graduate, Alumnae and Professional (GAP) chapter representatives approved the final stage
of a three–year effort to establish a regionalized internal structure.

The purpose of regionalization is to alleviate workload congestion within the National Board, to provide specialized attention to colonies and chapters of the organization, and to achieve an environment conducive to strategic planning among executive officers.

The Sorority has added nine new National Board positions, including National Vice President for Undergraduate Affairs (VPUA), National Vice President for GAP Affairs (VPGA), National Vice President for Intake and Expansion (VPIE), National Vice President for Membership Affairs (VPMA), and five Regional Directors.

Seven positions were retired, including National Vice President, GAP Member Advocate, Director of Undergraduate Affairs, Director of GAP Affairs, Director of Undergraduate Intake, Director of Undergraduate Expansion, and Director of GAP Intake and Expansion. While it was not retired, the Executive Director position was re-titled National Administrator.

Five Regional Directors will assume responsibility for the five newly developed regions: Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Southeast, Central, and West. State assignments within these regions will be posted on the national website, thetanuxi.org, along with other informational materials.

One of the immediate duties of the Regional Directors will be to communicate with the college and university administrative offices that oversee the Sorority’s undergraduate chapters. Each Regional Director will be responsible for standards, programming, new member intake and expansion, officer training and member development within her respective region.

In an effort to afford ample time to lay the groundwork for this regionalized structure, the National Board has instituted a moratorium on new undergraduate expansions, effective November 1, 2010. This suspension will
not affect interest groups currently in progress. Expansion groups that are not already in the process of creating new undergraduate chapters will be placed on hold until December 1, 2011.

Women interested in forming a chapter of the Sorority should contact the National Vice President for Intake and Expansion for more information about this moratorium.

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Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. was founded on April 11, 1997, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a mission to promote leadership, multiculturalism, and self-improvement through academic excellence, involvement in and service to the campus and community, as well as being living examples of sisterhood across different races, cultures, religions, backgrounds, and lifestyles. To learn more about Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. visit www.thetanuxi.org.

CONTACT: Rashida Rawls, Director of Communications, Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc., e-mail: director_communications@thetanuxi.org

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Check out the regions here: http://thetanuxi.org/res_regions.htm

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 13, 2010

UNC-CHAPEL HILL HONORS CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEERS WITH
DESEGREGATION CELEBRATION

Durham, N.C. - Three African-American students from Durham’s Hillside High School applied to UNC-Chapel Hill in 1955 and were denied admission by the Office of Admissions because they were “Negro”. After their application was rejected, the Board of Trustees passed a resolution barring the admission of Negroes to the undergraduate college. Mr. Ralph Frasier, his brother LeRoy Frasier and Mr. John Brandon filed suit against the Board of Trustees in the Federal District Court in North Carolina.

After a hearing, the Federal District Court ruled that the University Resolution by the Board of Trustees was unconstitutional and that the pronouncement from the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education that separate schools were unequal and unconstitutional “applied with greater force to students of mature age in the concluding years of their formal education as they are about to engage in the serious business of adult life.” In a unanimous opinion issued on September 16, 1955, the Federal District Court in Greensboro, N.C. ruled that the University of North Carolina was prohibited from denying admission to qualified black applicants solely because of their race or color. The Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina appealed the Federal Court’s decision to the United States Supreme Court and on September 16, 1955 admitted Mr. Ralph Frasier, his brother LeRoy and Mr. Brandon to the undergraduate college.

The three young men were represented by renowned civil rights attorneys Thurgood Marshall and Robert L. Carter, who had both served as legal counsel in Brown v. Board of Education. In a one line opinion, the United States Supreme Court affirmed the lower court’s ruling on March 5, 1956.

This Thursday, September 16, 2010, marks the 55th anniversary of desegregation and integration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is critical, necessary and timely for the University community to honor and commemorate their monumental sacrifice on this landmark 55th anniversary. These three men are of significant historical importance to the University of North Carolina and to higher American educational history. Their admission led to the admission of other African-American students to UNC, the formation of the African-American Studies Department, the Institute of African American Research, and to the integrated campus at UNC-Chapel Hill and throughout schools of higher education around the nation as we see them today.

The first three African-American undergraduate students who are responsible for desegregating UNC will be present and will honored by students, faculty, administration, and the community of North Carolina. Reverend Dr. William Barber, President of the North Carolina NAACP and advocate for racial and social justice will deliver the keynote address at the University Recognition Dinner on Friday evening.

Schedule of Events
Friday, September 17, 2010
1:30 p.m.: Stone Center Auditorium. [i]Open to All.[i]
Discussion and interview of Mr. Ralph Frasier, Mr. LeRoy Frasier, and Mr. John
Brandon. Moderated by Geeta Kapur, Civil Rights Attorney; Adjunct Professor – Department of African American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill; Adjunct Professor – UNC School of Law; Research Fellow, Institute of African American Research, UNC.

3:30 p.m.: Celebration Reception at the Stone Center Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, [i]Open to All.[i]

6:30 p.m.: University Recognition Dinner. Reverend Dr. William Barber, N.C. NAACP President to deliver the keynote speech. By Invitation Only.

Saturday, September 18, 2010
12 p.m.: Kenan Stadium
Mr. Ralph Frasier, Mr. LeRoy Frasier and Mr. John Brandon will be honored by the University at the first home football game against Georgia Tech.

Sponsors of the Desegregation Celebration
Office of the Chancellor, Department of Student Affairs Department of African and African American Studies, Department of History, Department of Athletics, Department of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, Institute of African American Research, Student Government, Black Student Movement and the Campus Y.

CONTACT: Geeta Nadia Kapur, Attorney & Counselor at Law and Adjunct Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill at 919-260-1977.