{"id":5682,"date":"2015-09-10T14:25:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T14:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2015-09-10T14:25:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T14:25:43","slug":"panel-discussion-held-to-urge-students-to-get-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2015\/09\/10\/panel-discussion-held-to-urge-students-to-get-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel discussion held to urge students to get involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shane Savannah<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Monday Aug. 31, a panel discussion was held in the Student Center Theater featuring the W.E.B. Du Bois Honors College, Student Government Association (SGA), and members of the Greek Pan-Hellenic Council.\u00a0 The discussion was a way to expose freshmen and transfer students to three of the most sought-after organizations on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen considering the Honors Societies at Jackson State University, most honors societies send you an email inviting you to join their honors society.\u00a0 There are even a few departmental honors societies that you can join, but you have to apply for them,\u201d said Lauren Taylor, a junior marketing and integrated marketing communications major from Huntsville, Ala.<\/p>\n<p>The next group to take the panel was members of Student Government Association who stressed the importance of getting involved.<\/p>\n<p>The final group of panelists to speak to the audience was members of the Pan-Hellenic Council.\u00a0 The importance of \u201cknowing who you are\u201d was stressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreek organizations are not the defining factor of an individual,\u201d said Nigel A. Dixon-McCollum<\/p>\n<p>There are currently eight active Greek organizations on campus.\u00a0 Anyone interested in joining a Greek organization should mark their calendars for Dec. 4, 2015 for a mandatory Membership Intake Process (MIP).<\/p>\n<p>Students attending the event had positive things to say about what they heard and how it relates to their organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned to be aware of what is required when getting involved,\u201d said Kaylor Bell, a freshman biology\/pre-physical therapy major Vicksburg, Miss.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Photos by Wiilliam Kelly<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Savannah Staff Writer On Monday Aug. 31, a panel discussion was held in the Student Center Theater featuring the W.E.B. Du Bois Honors College, Student Government Association (SGA), and members of the Greek Pan-Hellenic Council.\u00a0 The discussion was a way to expose freshmen and transfer students to three of the most sought-after organizations on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}