Sigma Lambda Beta celebrates honorary week
April 7, 2003
Sigma Lambda Beta celebrates honorary week
Fraternity has a week full of events planned for SIUC students
The CPR workshop sponsored by Sigma Lambda Beta served as more than an educational experience for fraternity members and participants. It served as a reminder, inspired by an actual, fatal incident.
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Last year, a member of Sigma Lambda Beta drowned while swimming in Puerto Rico. According to fraternity member Martin Gomez, he was still alive when pulled from the water, but died because no one at the scene was able to perform CPR as a means of resuscitation.
The CPR Awareness Workshop was the first in a week of events for the organization. The group has plans for every day of the week, beginning with educational events to fill out the beginning of the week and finishing with entertaining plans for weekend events.
“Our events have gone very well in the past, and we usually get a diverse crowd to support us and try different things,” said Ben Cosyleon, Sigma Lambda Beta president, and a junior in mechanical engineering from Pueblo, Colo.
After a discussion of the role of Hispanics in politics lead by Chicago Alderman Munoz today and a class offered to teach women about self-defense Wednesday, fraternity members will have the opportunity to do some teaching of their own.
On Thursday, the organization will venture to Head Start for a flag presentation that will teach children about the various Hispanic flags.
After a week of providing information to students and attendants of their events, fraternity members will have the chance to sit back and enjoy the more social events of the week.
After washing cars to raise money on Friday, they have a dinner followed by a poetry reading. After a free authentic Mexican dinner, the group will hold its 4th annual Mariachi Poetry Dinner. While this is not the first year of the event, this will be the first year that a live band has performed.
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Sigma Lambda Beta will round out the week with a barbeque at Giant City Park, which, like all of the organization’s events, will be a diverse experience that is free and open to the public.
Felipe Gomez, also a member of Sigma Lambda Beta, agreed with Cosyleon’s sentiments that SIUC’s greek system, as well as the campus as a whole, is in need of diversity. But he said that the greek system is definitely headed in the right direction, and hopes to continue down this path during this week of events.
“You’re going to see a lot of different colors and a lot of different people at our events,” said Gomez, a senior in industrial technology from Chicago.
The greek system is definitely progressing and not regressing. There could be some improvement but we’re moving in the right direction.”
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