Earnest Coverson, the youth and college regional director of the NCAAP, offered advice about being a member of a high profile group.

“People are going to label you if you are part of an organization,” he said. “Once you join, you’re in the spotlight.”

Coverson, along with members of several African American campus organizations conferred Wednesday in the Bovee University Center Lake Michigan Room as part of the “That’s What it’s Made 4” forum hosted by the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority.   more >>

Money management is important for college students as they near graduation and start to gain independence from their parents.

George Ross, vice president of Finance and Administrative Services, stressed personal finance management Tuesday night as part of the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. “Simply Golden” week in the Bovee University Center Gold Room.

“The most important thing you can do for yourselves is to write out a budget on paper,” Ross said. “It will help you in the future to live within your means.”

Attendees learned the importance of having a checking and savings account, managing credit cards, paying bills on time, working and starting to plan for retirement.

If students start saving for retirement right out of college or save about $200 a month, they could potentially be millionaires in 30 to 40 years.   more >>

Majority Whip Kathryn Bowers (Memphis) has selected Rep. JoAnne Favors, D-Chattanooga, to be an Assistant Whip for the 104th General Assembly now convened in Nashville.

Rep. Favors is a lifelong resident of Chattanooga and a mother of four. A health administrator and retired Associate Nursing Professor, Favors holds an M.S. in Nursing Administration and Adult Health, as well as both a B.S. and an A.S. in Nursing. She is also active in Gamma Theta Sigma Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Women's Leadership Council, Tennessee and American Nurses Association, Elks Springmeade Neighborhood Association, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society for Nurses, Annual Southside Family Reunion Organizer, Daughters of Elks Temple #364, Unity Group, PUSH, Women in Government, Chattanooga neighborhood Enterprise, Hamilton County Democratic Women's club, Howard High School Alumni Association, and the National Association of State Legislatures.   more >>

A University of Toledo student is suing the school and the president of a sorority for injuries she said were caused in a hazing incident last year.

Jonetta Reed filed the lawsuit last week in Lucas County Common Pleas Court. She said she was paddled on the buttocks and thighs and subjected to other incidents as part of the initiation into the Xi Beta Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority.

Angelia M. Brown, who is president of the chapter, and Lydia C. Thomas are accused of paddling Ms. Reed. They were named as defendants in the complaint, which was assigned to Judge Charles Wittenberg. She is seeking in excess of $25,000 in damages.  more >>

Students on St. Thomas and St. John are invited to participate in a youth symposium, "It's in the Bag," from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Charlotte Amalie High School.

Presented by the Theta Tau Sigma Alumni Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc., the symposium is designed to educate young people about getting caught up in peer-pressuring situations that lead to delinquent or criminal behavior.

A panel of law enforcement agents led by attorney Judy Gomez of the V.I. Justice Department will discuss the consequences of fighting, drugs, drinking, cheating, gambling, assault and battery, false alarms, skipping class, stealing, vandalism and more.   more >>

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The members of Sigma Gamma Rho, will be making a videotaped message to send to Iraq. The videotape will be sent to the troops overseas. Members of the sorority were inspired to make the tape when one of the group’s actives returned from service in Iraq. Angela Miller, a senior political science major from Weir, returned from service in the National Guard near Baquba, Iraq, in February 2004.  

Kezia Pigford, program coordinator of Sigma Gamma Rho, helped arrange the project.

“I feel it’s important because that is such a great sacrifice, to take time from their friends and family to protect our country.”  more >>

College chapters of sororities and fraternities, typically pledged by the single and child-free, are attracting new members with families or full-fledged careers. It's not unusual for academic or profession-based organizations to attract adults, but it has been far less common for older students to join the more socially oriented Greek-lettered organizations.

"It definitely has changed," said Jacquelyn Thweatt-Pippion, president of the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Chicago alumnae chapter, which sponsors several collegiate chapters in the state. "A lot of our undergrads now do have families. They work extra hard because they have to work a job, or with their children. That's a second job."  more >>

Delta Sigma Theta sorority is sponsoring a night to remember and honor African American pioneers Monday at 7 p.m. at the Paris Yates Chapel. The time and place have been changed in order to accommodate a choir. Each participating fraternity or sorority will be giving brief historical presentations on many influential civil rights leaders and their leadership. 

Other greek organizations participating are Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Phi Alpha, Omega Phi Pi, Theta Phi Beta, Sigma Gamma Rho, Kappa Alpha Psi and Phi Beta Sigma.  more >>