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Western Carolinian Volume 65 (66) Number 18

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(WCU's Independent Student Voice) Carolinian January 31, 2001, Vol. 65, Issue 18 www.westerncarolinian.com Kappa Sigma Fraternity to Colonize at WCU By Dawn N. Pasley News Editor The Kappa Sigma fraternity will formally establish a new colony at WCU on Saturday. The process leading up to colonization began last semester when students Josh Allen and Josh Pencola, who then knew nothing of each other, e-mailed the headquarters of Kappa Sigma to inquire about the possibility of starting a chapter of the fraternity at WCU. Kappa Sigma is an international fraternity founded at the University of Virginia in 1869. It has 203 chapters and six colonies in the United States and Canada, and has over 200,000 initiates making it the sixth largest fraternity. According to Allen, representatives of the national headquarters got the two mixed up, at first, thinking that they were a single individual until one representative asked Allen if he was Josh Pencola. Allen said that he was not, and the representative then told him that there was another WCU student trying to achieve the same goal. At the beginning of spring semester, the national headquarters sent chapter consultants to campus to begin the recruitment process. Interested students visited the Kappa Sigma display in the University Center and indicated that they wanted to be a part of the group, which will be formally colonized on Saturday at a special retreat. At the retreat, all those who expressed interest will be inducted as pledges, and the group will also elect its officers. The colony will be required to complete several colony development programs before it will be considered to be chartered as a true chapter of Brad photo by Dawn N. Pasley Armstrong and Josh Pencola recruit members for the Kappa Sigma colony. Kappa Sigma. These programs include five community service projects, a newsletter to Kappa Sigma alumni living in the area, and seminars relating to topics such as date rape and alcohol awareness, according to Pencola. The colony is aiming to fulfill all of these requirements and to submit a petition to the national headquarters to get a charter by December, said Allen. Allen went on to say that the colony is very similar to a true chapter with regards to what the members are allowed to do. The only differences lie in the fact that colony members cannot wear the Kappa Sigma badge or possess anything with the crest on it, and they do not know the formal ritual. During the period of time in which the colony will complete its programs, national representatives will occasionally come to WCU to assess its progress. Allen and Pencola were quite excited about the colony and getting to interact as a group with the other Greek organizations on campus. At the beginning of the process, Allen was concerned about how the other fraternities and sororities would view the new group. He was careful to say that he did not choose to start a new organization because of a lack of other options. "We don't have anything against any of the other fraternities on campus," said Allen. "We just had a desire to join a Greek organization, and within ourselves we couldn't find what we needed on campus. What there was just didn't fit us." Pencola expressed his enthusiasm in very few words saying, "Kappa Sigma is here! Watch out, WCU!" Town Conversation to Focus on Freshman Retention By Dawn N. Pasley News Editor In an effort to bolster the freshman retention rate at WCU, faculty, staff, and students will unite next Wednesday to converse about retention options and obstacles. Retention has become a major issue at WCU since the release of reports stating that only 69.5 percent of the first- time, full-time freshmen entering WCU in the fall of 1998 remained enrolled after one year. In the entire University of North Carolina system of public universities, 80.5 percent of first-time, full-time freshmen entering college in the fall of 1998 remained enrolled after one year. The town conversation concerning retention will be held in the UC Grandroom from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m., and participants will have a chance to voice their opinions and give suggestions concerning how WCU can keep more students. Chris Gunn, assistant director of counseling and psychological services, and Tammi Brown, associate director of the Advising Center, are the co-chairs of the planning committee for the town conversation. Brown made it clear that the conversation is dependent on the views of the participants. The committee wants to hear what the university community has to say about the matter. "We don't want to direct the discussion and telling everybody, 'This is what we want to talk about,'" said Brown. According to Brown, there has already been one town conversation on retention with the chancellor, and they found from that conversation that the issue required more student and faculty input. Chancellor John Bardo focused heavily on the retention issue in his address to the general faculty last August, at the beginning of the fall semester. He likened WCU's retention worries to a medical problem. "Metaphorically, Western's very poor rate of student retention can be seen as the institutional equivalent of a hemorrhage," said Bardo. Bardo implored the faculty to seek out ways to improve the retention rate. He stated that if WCU could maximize the number of students who continue to attend, the university could reap rewards such as a greater number of new full- time faculty positions. "If we were to hold constant the number of new students and the number of returning students, increasing our retention rates could have a major impact on the number of faculty positions Rick Collings (vice-chancellor for academic affairs) would have available," said Bardo. If WCU were to get its freshman retention rate up to the current average in the UNC system, it could hire 21 new full-time faculty over the course of four years.

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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  - Date original: 2001-01-31
  - Date digitized: 2021-02-25
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  - Dimension: 14" x 11.25"
  - Pages: 20 pages
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  - Jackson County (N.C.)
  - Cullowhee (N.C.)
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  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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