Convention 2009 will be hosted in Cleveland, Ohio by the Nu Chapter at Case Western Reserve University, in their 125th year! Sign up for updates at www.zetapsi2009.com |
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GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE
CHIA gains new sponsors:
The Collegiate Housing Infrastructure Act (HR 643/S 638), now has 211 Sponsors in the House and 40 in the Senate. CHIA would allow 501(c)3 charities like Zeta Psi Educational Foundation to raise and expend tax-deductible donations to help build, buy, or upgrade Chapter houses that are safe, modern, and affordable!
$3000 pledged to Frat. & Sor. PAC:
More than 100 Zete Actives & Elders pledged $25 or more to FSPAC, which supports Greek & Greek-friendly candidates for office who share our values and goals. THANK YOU to those Zetes who pledged!
5 WAYS TO HELP IN UNDER 5 MINUTES:
1. Download the CFC FaceBook application, sign the petition and show your support for CHIA at www.cfcfacebook.com.
2. Don't use FaceBook? Register at the CFC website to use their letter writing tool - Visit www.fraternalcaucus.org.
3. Have personal/political connections that can help us pass CHIA? LET US KNOW! Contact Dan Backer at 202-210-5431 or dbacker@zetapsi.org.
4. Learn more about the Fraternity & Sorority Political Action Committee's support of Greek & 'friendly' candidates at www.fratpac.org
5. visit www.fratpac.org/donate.php to donate to FSPAC (email Dan Backer when you do so we track Zete gifts). Thank you for your support - in time, talent, or treasure - to this vital effort!
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Zeta Psi Active & Elder Services
Click below for more on these programs:
Career Mentors List. Elders can offer the inside scoop on their industry, and Actives can figure out their interests.
Job Bank. Post or search resumes & jobs.
Internships. Info on the best internship programs in the Fraternity world.
Shop Zete. Ties, T's, and eMall online shopping to support Zeta Psi.
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Join our Zeta Psi group on popular professional networking website LinkedIn!
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Zeta Psi IHQ Job Opening! Zeta Psi now has a job opening for a traveling consultant beginning January 2009. The job is open to any recent graduate who is a member of Zeta Psi Fraternity. The job entails traveling to various Zete chapters during the school year and providing advice and guidance to those chapters. The position also entails supporting and attending the annual convention, participating in various Leadership Training Seminars, attending industry seminars, and maintaining contact with keep chapter officers. The job is based out of the Zeta Psi IHQ in Pearl River, New York. Applicants must have experience serving in various chapter offices and have strong recruitment and leadership abilities. Applicant must have a good driving record and be able to provide a personal automobile and auto insurance. Salary is entry-level and compensation includes health insurance and housing in Pearl River. Travel expenses are paid. If interested please send a resume with fraternity experience detailed to Dave Hunter at dhunter@zetapsi.org. | |
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Fall Scholarship Apps due FRIDAY!
Deadline is this Friday, Sept. 19th 2008 - don't miss out!
CLICK HERE to apply or visit: http://www.zetapsi.org/actives/scholarships |
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LEADERSHIP TRAINING
The leadership training provided by Zeta Psi over the past 30 years has been outstanding. This past convention in Montreal saw another strong step towards what must be the best leadership training program in the Greek world. Our convention and our regional Leadership Training Institutes (LTIs) focus on topics that directly affect and impact Actives and Elders. For undergraduates, we concentrate on building skills that members will need once they leave college, building character, and enhancing their ability to operate a chapter on a college campus. Our Alumni Academy concentrates on areas of interest to Elder associations - recruiting members, structure, and interaction with an undergraduate chapter. Our goal is to provide real value to our membership.
This program can only work with support from you! We have ten LTIs this year plus three targeted chapter LTIs. This extremely valuable program costs money to operate in the form of travel, food and lodging for attendees and LTI staff. Many of you already support our Foundation and the LTI - and special thanks go out to Lou Capozzoli, Alan Rice, and the F. M. Kirby Foundation for their very generous support. We need more in order to reach more Actives & Elders. Please consider a gift, and thank you for your support!
T K Phi, Dave Hunter, IA '80 (email me) |
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Fall 2008 Internships in gear
PLUS - a look at Spring & Summer '09
 WSFP - Washington Scholars:
The WSFP Fall 2008 interns recently began their high profile internships at our nation's top public policy organizations. These internships provide excellent career building and educational opportunities for our future leaders. The fall class has three interns: Brad Jensema and Jason Nguyen from the University of Maryland and Dale Maden from Rutgers University.
The WSFP can be your chance to start a fulfilling career in public policy. Applications are now being accepted for spring 2009 internships and are due by October 30th, 2008. Information and applications can be found at www.washingtonscholars.org.
WSS - Wall Street Scholars:
The Wall Street Scholars Program is seeking new host companies and motivated, enthusiastic interns for Summer 2009. Interns in the Wall Street Scholars Program receive numerous networking and career-building opportunities outside of the summer internship and go through several rounds of screening before the selection process concludes. Past employers of WSS Interns have valued the impressive background and hard-work ethic that each scholar has brought to the table and references are available. If your company or employer regularly hires interns for the summer or wants to hire one for Summer 2009 - contact us! Or, if you have a connection in NYC that might employ a Zeta Psi intern - contact us so we can be in touch with them. Email Adam Zandan at adam.zandan@draka.com for info. |
 ZeteScouts!
ZeteScouts continues its mission to connect chapters with troops. The demand from Scouts across the country outstrips the number of available Zete chapters! We work to improve our support of these matchups and to find new ways in which to perform this much-needed community service. If there is one constant across this nationwide program, it's that we always need more men!
Undergraduate brothers can register to teach their respective specialties as merit badge counselors and elders can serve as crucial advisors and facilitators between groups. In addition, every single Zete can provide guidance to these young men as they navigate the years-long college selection process. The ZeteScouts board is examining a wide range of options to strengthen this collaboration, and we are actively seeking suggestions from all members. Have an idea? Let us know - Email bosetti@gmail.com |
Tales from the Road
Anthony 'Dubs' Abbate and Pat 'Tito' Kepp
Fall is like springtime for the traveling consultant. After the long summer, locked in with office work and the pleasures and pains of Convention, we have time to relax, emerge from behind our desks, and return to the things which we love the most: recruitment and football.
After some random early visits, Pat and I have begun our Midwest swing, and initial numbers for both categories are good. After Georgia's powerful season opener, the Beta Sigma chapter has three who have accepted bids already and recruitment is on going. Then Purdue has already given out five bids and rush remains open until the end of the month, as well as also have an impressive showing for their first home game. And finally, at the time of this writing, we're gearing up for Alpha Epsilon's slowly growing rush and a weekend of another home win. Coming up: Wisconsin, Michigan, and Penn State.
Around the US, we've begun hearing of great recruitment numbers, with chapters like Phi Epsilon, Rho Alpha, and Sigma Gamma reporting pledges in the mid-teens. Omicron at Nebraska Wesleyan has even pledged one of the larger classes seen through out the entire fraternity in recent years, with 28 men hopefully to be initiated later this year.
So we hope that your semester has begun strong and you continue reporting to us these outstanding numbers. If you haven't seen someone yet, be sure we'll be coming through soon and good luck with everything until then. | |
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A Penny Saved...
...Is a Penny earned; If life gives you lemons, make lemonade; jocks are big, blonde and dumb; blonde girls are dumb, or more fun (or both depending on your view); frat boys are wealthy, focused on booze and sex, and take "gut" courses.
What do these phrases have in common? Well depending on the listener (and which candidate you're voting for in November), they're all correct or they're all wrong.
The reality, of course, is neither position. They are clichés, stereotypes, generalities that are used when desired and discarded by the opposing side. But what is true and useful about these phrases is that they are like a yellow blinking light as you are driving down the road of life. You have to make a decision---continue driving, or stop now. It doesn't tell you which decision to make, only that you have one coming up.
These phrases remain in the collective consciousness because in an unusually high percentage, exceeding normal probability, they are true!
These are convenient, easy ways to reach quick conclusions when you needed to. In a time before Google and CIA, you literally did evaluate a man by the clothes he wore, or the manner of speech, or the company he kept.
While the bases for these "truths and nostrums" are often clouded in antiquity, their underlying thought process may still be useful.
You rush a variety of fraternities and guys in them. At one you find the place a mess, guys laying around watching Wheel of Fortune, sloppily dressed and rather unfriendly. Now, is it possible that this is a great house? Of course it's possible. Do you think it is? Probably not and you move on...making a significant life choice (with whom will you live and associate for several years into the future) based on your experience with those stereotypes.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with these phrases; they are like a Cliff Notes of a great novel. You won't get all the information to be had and intended by the author, but you will get the "gist" of the story and some obvious insights in the shortened version. And if you live your life on platitudes and Cliff Notes, you will never develop the fullness of thought and style; nuance and uniqueness; symbolism and metaphors that great novels provide.
What does all this mean? Well, recognize the intrinsic value of generalities to quickly get your antennae pointed in the right directions; but rely on the "deep dive" to make significant decisions.
We can see how that applies to our rush "marketing" program and chapter success next time.
Always in Tau Kappa Phi, David W. Busacca, Phi Alpha CXXXII |
DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROGRAM INFO ONLINE: Information on Zeta Psi's Dispute Resolution Program, known as "Binding Arbitration," is now available online at www.zetapsi.org. An explantion of the program is provided. This program will be implemented this fall. If you have any questions contact Dave Hunter. | |
