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Old 01-30-2003, 12:53 PM
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Greek grades top campus average

By ABIGAIL SMITH
Published , January 29, 2003, 12:00:01 PM EDT


(GRAPHIC BY NASH HOGAN * The Red & Black)


If you want to raise your GPA, join a Greek organization.

The average Greek GPA for fall semester was more than a tenth of a point higher than the overall undergraduate population's average.

The sorority average was 3.29, versus 3.18 for the all women's average, and fraternities averaged 2.97 versus the all men's average of 2.92.

Alpha Chi Omega and Sigma Delta Tau tied for first among the sororities with an average GPA of 3.43.

Sigma Phi Epsilon had the highest average GPA among fraternities with a 3.30.

"The guys know how seriously we take grades," said Vinny Lotti, a senior from Hampton and president of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

"We've always finished in the top three for grades, but we've always fallen short of first," he said.

TOP 5 GREEK GPAS
Fraternities

1. Sigma Phi Epsilon - 3.3

2. Alpha Epsilon Pi - 3.22

3. Phi Gamma Delta - 3.21

4. Delta Tau Delta - 3.18

5. Tau Epsilon Phi - 3.17

Sororities

1. Alpha Chi Omega - 3.43

1. Sigma Delta Tau - 3.43

3. Phi Mu - 3.41

4. Delta Delta Delta - 3.38

5. Alpha Omicron Pi - 3.35


Lotti said the fraternity has a system of academic policies and restrictions for members who don't meet the grade requirements, which helps motivate the brothers to do well.

"(None of) the guys want to be the one who (is thinking) just because of my GPA, I've let everyone else down," he said.

Making good grades is all part of being a "balanced man" -- a key part of Sigma Phi Epsilon, he said.

"We stress being a balanced man," Lotti said. "You can throw a great party and do well at sports, but if you can't hold an intelligent conversation you're not a balanced man."

Philip Borgia, a junior risk management major from Marietta, is the academic chair for Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Borgia said he enforces any penalties a member may receive for poor grades and also maintains a "test bank" of old notes and tests from classes that members can use.

"I'm very, very happy about being first," he said. "We really enforced (the penalties) hard and stressed grades."

Having a member in a position to monitor the grades of the organization is common.

Zeta Tau Alpha has a scholarship chairperson whose sole job is to promote scholarship in the sorority, said Zeta Tau Alpha president Stephanie Hawkins, a junior from Marietta majoring in speech communication and minoring in Spanish.

"We give a 'Smarty-Pants' award each week to someone who has made an 'A' on a test," she said. "And we have test files where we keep all of the old notes for classes."

Hawkins' sorority finished sixth among the sororities with an average GPA of 3.34.

"We're definitely excited about it," she said. "We're hoping to get even stronger. We're going for first place this semester."

Making good grades helps improve the image of Greeks that outsiders have, Hawkins said.

"One great thing about grades is there is a lot of criticism of the Greek community," she said. "But grades they can't take away."
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