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Samantha Sosa was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is currently a senior at DePauw University and is expected to graduate on May, 2011. Her double majors are Communications (with a focus in Media studies and Rhetoric), and Spanish. She is a member of the Posse Foundation, full-tuition leadership scholarship, a member of the Committee for Latino Concerns, was a radio personality for WGRE 91.5 radio station for a semester in Indiana, and has previously worked in the Theater and Communications Department at DePauw. She studied abroad for a semester her junior year of college in Granada, Spain and also had the opportunity to travel to other countries and to Africa. Ever since her grass roots internship experience with United States Hispanic Leadership Institute she grew an urge to assist and foster the Latino population. Her goal is to help pipeline more Latinos into college. She quotes: “The Latino population’s potential is undeniable, we have a great advantage in the changing face of today’s market; all we need to do is work together so that no one is left behind.”

Monday, November 8, 2010

Should Latinos do the Greek thing?

The percentage of students affiliated with the Greek system on campus varies within each college or university. As part of a project I’m doing in school, I produced a short clip that introduces the perspectives of four DePauw University students who are a part of different sororities: a Latino-based multicultural sorority, a historically black sorority, or a traditional sorority.
The members of the multicultural and historically black sororities follow on the footsteps of previous students who created these organizations that fit them. At DePauw the non-traditional sorority members constitute less than 15% of the 70% traditional sorority and fraternity population on campus. In effect, they have been unrecognized by many students and have received many stereotypes, which you will learn more about in the video.
Despite such challenges, however, the non-traditional sororities have stuck it out and remained loyal to their sorority’s mission and their needs. Rather than allowing the lack of cultural awareness on campus push them into giving up their cultural background, they continued to work hard on projects that often times go unnoticed. They believe that in the end future students will benefit from their hard work of establishing these diverse sororities. Take a look at my video: 

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3 comments:

  1. Gregory CarrNovember 8, 2010 at 10:30 PM

    Nice work Samantha, you've really done a great job framing the issues. It was really interesting to see how members of both the historically black and multicultural, Latina-based, sororities understood their projects as beneficial not only to their members, but to the broader community as well.

    I'm interested to hear what you think about whether those non-traditional sororities will continue to grow on campus as the Latina and black populations increase, or whether Latinas and blacks will turn to the traditional Greek system on campus and help diversify those organizations. Or maybe it's both?

    Do you think you'd ever do a follow-up video?

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  2. UnknownNovember 9, 2010 at 5:26 AM

    Great Video Samantha! :)

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  3. UnknownNovember 9, 2010 at 6:42 AM

    I wonder why so few Hispanics join fraternities and sororities, maybe its because they feel excluded? I'm glad you give an idea here that people can bring their own greek org to their schools.

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