As a community college, AVC may not have fraternities or sororities, but we have Greeks of our very own: Alpha Gamma Sigma. Our chapter here is Alpha Iota, our honor society. It’s for students who have at least a 3.0 grade point average per semester or a 3.5 right out of high school.
Once you qualify to be apart of Alpha Iota, you will be notified. Afterward, it’s up to you. You can go to SSV 180 and pay $30 to be a non active member or $15 to be active.
Being an active member means participating in about 15 hours of the activities that Alpha Iota is involved with on and off campus. They do a lot of charity work and fundraisers such as car washes, helping out in homeless shelters and donating blankets to sexual assault victims.
Alpha Iota does a lot on campus as well; they help with the ASO food pantry and also took on the rather big project of helping pick up all of the trash to keep AVC clean.
“Our impact is not always recognized by the students, but trust and believe a lot of the things we do really make an impact on the students directly and indirectly”, said Tuski Mason, Officer of Public Relations for Alpha Iota.
What they’re putting together now is a dodge ball tournament on May 28. As of right now, it is just open to clubs. “We’re trying to get the faculty to get a team together too,” said David Navarette, the member who is organizing the tournament. Each team that wants to participate has to have at least six people and pay a $15 registration fee; the winning team gets the money for their club.
If you really want to play, you can join a club’s team even if you aren’t a part of the club.
For the people who don’t want to get pelted with dodge balls, you can go to just watch; it’s $3 for students and $5 for everyone else.
Alpha Iota is here to teach students about being a part of something. These students work hard to be considered in our honor society and learn how to become leaders; they are a big part of our campus and our community.
-by Sarah Niemann
