Final Presentation - Becoming a Brother of Alpha Phi Omega

This semester I joined the Alpha Epsilon Omega Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega National Co-Ed Service Fraternity Incorporated. I gained several new brothers, mentors, and honestly I gained a family.

The day of my probate was December 13, 2016. It was held in Foundation Hall in Reynold's and it was open to everyone. We voted on have a public reveal, even though we had the option to have a private reveal with just our family and prophytes (people that were in the fraternity already). Our probate was simply a visual show and program of the brotherhood we had joined. We dressed as prisoners to encompass a theme of serving Life to service. (Community service that is)

 

Here are a couple of pictures of me from my probate. 

  

Alpha Phi Omega is based on the 3 cardinal principles of leadership, friendship, and service.

Here are a few of my line and I's community service with the chapter in just a few short weeks.

Links From the Alpha Epsilon Omega Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega

http://www.instagram.com/apo.aeomega1925

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMziP8vBlIe/?taken-by=apo.aeomega1925

Brief #20 - Wildcard

Crooks and Liars

During the 2016 Presidential Election, Donald Trump openly discredited multiple news media outlets and biased news in its entirety, but one that many can designate as his safe haven was Fox News. Examining several media outlets throughout the election and me personally leaning more supportive of the Democratic stance on issues I did not watch Fox News. I found it humorous when I saw an article about President Elect Donald Trump hijacking key analysts from Fox News for his administration. The article in question was entitled "Is Trump Hiring The Entire Fox News Cast?" it was featured on  Crooks and Liars and encompassed the fact that "hiring the entire Fox News Cast" is exactly what President Elect Donald Trump is doing. Here is an excerpt from Rachel Maddow's segment regarding the Fox Alumni/ Trump Administration: "But we do know that the incoming president watches Fox News and he likes it now, apparently. He likes it enough that he's picked it up by the ankles, given it a good shake and started to move its whole roster off of Rupert Murdoch and onto the taxpayers of the United States. What a time to be alive."The article also included a statement from Fox News' executive Greg Gutfield from The Fives: "What becomes of Fox News? So I'm looking at the roster so far. You've got KT McFarland, Ben Carson, [John] Bolton, [Monica] Crowley, [Mike] Huckabee, Scott Brown. These are all FNC mainstays. Are they going to replace the Supreme Court with Outnumbered? Does that make Clarence Thomas one lucky guy? I'm worried. We're not going to have anybody here anymore."

Brief #19 - Classmate Blog Critique

The blog I found most insightful was Samir's. I love how he posts his briefs on subjects that interest him and that he genuinely likes. I feel as though people are often more passionate about things they are interested in and that truly shows through his writing. I also appreciate how aesthetically pleasing Samir's blog is.

Samir's Blog 

Brief #18- News App Critique

The news app that I utilize heavily is the KSLA News 12 App. I downloaded it from the iOS App Store a couple of months ago to keep up with Ark-La-Tex news. The app sends out notifications throughout the day of top stories. They have the current weather shown on the top right corner of the app and when you click on the sun icon it pulls up the 7 day forecast at that moment. KSLA News 12 is my favorite news outlet so I was elated to find out that they had an app where I could keep up with news on-the-go. The only thing that I would change about the KSLA News 12 app would be to add a forum or more interactivity from viewers to the KSLA News 12 Team.

Brief #17 - National Issue

One of our nation's biggest issues to date is racial injustice. A lot of American's feel that anytime racial "biasness" is brought up as a topic that it is the minority race "pulling the race card", coercing affirmation from a race regarding a sort of hidden privilege. With more and more cases of racial profiling from law enforcement officials leading to minority men slain in the streets of our country opening a blind eye to police brutality, Americans are finding themselves and fellow citizens more divided than ever.
During an election year where our President Elect is openly more biased against minorities, our entire country is in shambles. This hidden issue has been fought and protested every which way, but every few weeks there are more and more UNARMED minority men being slain in front of their communities and families at the hands of those sworn in to serve and protect. In my opinion a complete law enforcement/ judicial system reform is the only way to resolve our country's division. At the instance where each and every similar situation is handled alike, that is when our country will gain complete, civil rest.

Brief #16 - Opinion

I have been a student at Southern Arkansas University for 4 years (4 fall semesters if you want to be technical). I have been a mother for 1 year. In the same way that there are pros and cons to attending a university as a regular, college aged student with hardly any responsibility, there are pros and cons for me as a college aged student with a whole other human being's life and well being in my responsibility pile. In lack for better words, bluntly put I am a single parent, full time student, and working 30 hours a week. I am very grateful that Southern Arkansas University has a housing option for students with spouses, and or children.
Upon becoming a mother I was very unsure of how I would be the best parent to my baby girl and continue on my journey to a Bachelor's degree. Family housing is a huge pro to me as well as many other single parent students, but there is a con. The biggest con as a single parent student at SAU is the fact that there isn't a daycare on campus. I'm hoping not to come across as privileged and ungrateful because I truly am, I just don't understand why there isn't a daycare on campus. A brief rundown of my day to day includes: waking up, fixing breakfast, feeding my daughter and getting her and her bags ready for the day, dressing myself and getting my own bags for the day, then driving to the Southside of town to drop my child off at daycare, small talking with the ladies at the daycare (because it's kind of rude to just dump your kid and run), driving back to campus, parking, and going to class. It may not seem that different from any other student's day to day, but no other student that lives ON campus 2 minutes from all of their classes is having to drive 10 minutes away. The daily drive to the daycare irritates my soul and it makes me not even want to leave the house sometimes. I personally compare SAU to every other University here in Arkansas, but there are several universities that have daycare on campus why is Southern Arkansas University not on board?