Food Tent Down

Taylor Beswick and Ellen Lalonde enjoy the food made by the AOII moms until the tent was blown down by the wind destroying most of it

Interview

Emily Gardiner a member of AOII tells us about the event

Volleyball Tournament

Many people came to the University Village beach volleyball courts to support the cause

Spike Out Arthritis

Alpha Omicron Pi holds a volleyball tournament to raise money for arthritis research

Greeks Around Campus

Brooke Arabia, Brittany Chiodo, Mackenzie Morgan, and Aliecia Anderson
help the university make care packages for our troops.

Emily Damico, Emily Sikora, Aliecia Anderson, Isti Istrefi, Rachel Putch, and Rachel Kilgore are preparing for a long weekend of recruitment by enjoying a night by the fire.

Emily Damico, Miranda Flamm, Ange Borriello, Auriel Welty, Alexa Milston, Isti Istrefi, and Taylor Beswick
take some girls bowling to meet the sisters

AOII's newest members

Emily Gardiner, Jenna Conway, Isti Istrefi, Aimee Espe, Deanna Shields, and Shay Conors
 attend a fundraiser flag football event against other fraternities and soroities

Girls of Alpha Omicron Pi celebrate there last few days of summer by having a photo shoot to put into their recruitment video

In the first picture these sisters of Alpha Omicron Pi went out of their way to support our troops by making care packages for them which included necessities they may need in their everyday lives while fighting for our country.

Greek life is a huge part of Slippery Rocks campus always having something going on. With the new freshman coming also leads to the Greeks trying to seek out new members. Recruitment weekend lasted 5 days with many long hours.

Caught at Coffaros bowling alley these AOII's introduce themselves to some potentially interested girls. Spending time with sisters is a big part of Greek life and after talking to the new girls they said they loved it.

Bid day came and went with great results. Every sorority on campus got a handful of new girls who all seemed very pleased about where they were placed. Alpha Omicron Pi got 11 new members who will learn about the sorority and its values over this semester.

Greek life raises money for their philanthropies by getting teams together to play against each other in games. Alpha Xi Delta hosted this event by gathering up a team from each sorority and fraternity and having them pay to play to support a cause. Even though the girls from Alpha Omicron Pi did not take first they still had a blast playing.

I choose this theme of pictures because I am proud to be Greek and most events around campus involve Greek life or the people in some way. Friendship is what makes life exciting and I wanted to let people know that the stereotype about Greek people isn't true. They play a good part in the community and university.

Same Sex Parenting & Their Children:

Many people have much to say about whether same sex marriages should be able to parent children. With 23 countries finally legalizing same sex marriages it seems like people’s views are changing but there is still some uncertainty about the matter. To learn more about each states laws regarding same sex marriage the NCSL provides some more in depth information.  

Many gay couples tend to have a stronger bond and are more stable than heterosexual marriages giving their children a more secure home. A popular TV show on ABC family called The Fosters shows viewers just that. The moms on the show have 5 adopted children who they love and care about. Some believe the show to be inappropriate for a family network, but as the creator of the show says it’s just showing our younger generations about how we need to learn how to accept people for who they are. The New York Times did an article about The Fosters which you can find here.

So as same sex marriages has become a growing possibility so has same sex parenting which is often accused for bad child development but research has supported there is no difference. Office of Child Development  studies that have been published to date report no significant differences in gender development, personal development, and social relationships among children of same-sex couples and children raised in heterosexual households.

Children are claimed to just need love no matter what the circumstances. But with that basic assumption some have looked deeper into the more psychological factors that happens to children when they aren’t raised by the traditional mom and dad household. For examples it is said that fathers reduce behavioral problems in boys and psychological problems in girls. As for a mothers natural caring instinct a child cannot live without. The most reliable statistics show that about 210,000 children under age 18 are being raised nationally by more than 122,000 same-sex-couples. With these numbers in mind USA Today also states how the median annual household income of same-sex couples raising minor children is more than 10% lower than for comparable married heterosexual couples. In brief gay or lesbian couples are twice as likely to be living in poverty. Children are also reported to struggle in areas such as education, employment, and arrest records.
 

Whichever side you decide to take it doesn’t seem like there is much anyone can do to stop same sex couples from raising children. With more and more states allowing marriage between gay and lesbian couples.
 

 

 http://thefamilyannex.org/
http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritual-life/same-sex-marriage-debate