Breast cancer affects everyone, according to Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. president Shetina Jones, which is why five members of the sorority and 25 students from Eastern Michigan participated in the Ann Arbor Breast Cancer Walk Oct. 14.

It wasn't the sorority's first time participating in the walk, but it decided this year to open the walk to all EMU students, Jones said.   more >>

Sleeping in the cold is not usually something someone would do by choice- unless you are a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, doing this year's sleep out for the homeless.

The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity slept out in the cold Thursday night to help raise funds for Hurricane Katrina victims and the homeless. Members were out from 7 a.m. Thursday to 7 a.m. Friday.

The members of Phi Beta Sigma met outside in front of the Campanile. They set up boxes and blankets and bundled up for the cold weather.

"We can pretend to be homeless, but we can go to the MU and get something to eat," said Fabian Awanyai, junior in interdisciplinary studies. "[It] teaches you not to take things for granted."  more >>

Some get-out-the-vote drives encourage people to visit the polls on Election Day.

One fraternity at Fayetteville State University can’t wait until then.

The men of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity borrowed three vans from local churches to shuttle themselves and their classmates to the Cumberland County Board of Elections office Thursday.

The members encouraged their classmates to get involved in the democratic process. Some of their peers are new to voting, and a little apprehensive, said Antonio Verrios, the vice president of FSU’s Alpha Phi Alpha chapter.  more >>

A bright pink T-shirt displayed the words, "Know your friends; it's not always a stranger in the bushes." The shirt represented a survivor of sexual assault who participated in the Clothesline Project, a program designed to address the issue of violence against men and women.

Individuals who have been affected by violence can express their emotions by decorating a yellow, red, pink, blue, green, purple, black or white T-shirt indicating what type of violence they were victim of.

Members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority discovered the program during a visit to Ohio State, said Candice Poole, a member of the sorority. They decided to set up a display at Kent State with T-shirts decorated by abused and battered individuals living in Portage County.  more >>

After finding out about a fraternity’s efforts to distribute free condoms on campus, a parent of an MU student wrote a letter and a poem last month to UM system President Elson Floyd, encouraging him to stop the plans.

In a news release on Oct. 9, Chancellor Brady Deaton announced that he was stalling the condom distribution.

Phi Beta Sigma, a historically black fraternity, proposed the initiative, which called for free condoms in common areas of every residence hall.

The Maneater obtained letters involving the condom distribution plan after filing a request under the Missouri Sunshine Law for correspondence between Floyd, Deaton and Clifton Berry, the father of an MU freshman.

“As an African American, I am concerned that your action encourages behavior among our youth that is antithetical to behavior that will direct us out of the moral morass into which we’ve fallen,” Berry stated in one letter.   more >>

Terrence Jenkins signs off each day as co-host of Black Entertainment Television's flagship show with the phrase, "Don't follow your dreams. Chase them."

Jenkins chased his dreams to win BET's "New Faces" search and become co-host of "106 & Park" — just two years after graduating from N.C. A&T.

Each weekday at 6 p.m., he emcees a live countdown of the most requested rap, hip-hop and R&B videos, and interviews singers, actors and athletes.

He has lunched with Diddy and been fed strawberries by Janet Jackson.

"Sometimes I watch the show on reruns, and I am actually shocked and surprised that this is happening to me," Jenkins, 22, says in an interview from New York.

"Terrence J" — as he is known on TV — returns to Greensboro today to host the Greek step show that is part of A&T's homecoming.

Fraternity Omega Psi Phi "teaches you perseverance," he says. Being student body president, he adds, "gave me a lot of speaking roles, and in-depth experience with the African American culture."  more >>