This study looks at what variables affect a student’s GPA, leadership skills, and overall happiness at UNCA. A particular variable that is examined is if a student belongs to a social fraternity or sorority on campus. This study was conducted through use of a survey, given to twelve different classes of Humanities students and to members of social fraternities and sororities that were willing t...

College drinking has traditionally been studied from a public health perspective that attempts to quantify behavior as a means toward description, explanation, and intervention. This article offers a critical and cultural approach to understanding the meanings and functions of high-risk drinking and the ways in which those meanings are reproduced within the culture. Data were collected via an e...

By JAMES C. SNYDER JR A fight between brothers of the Editor in Chief Kappa Sigma Fraternity and Police Department and the Wake Forest Public Safety Office said an off-duty officer should show his badge, which neither of the two men did. Head football coach Al Groh Despite a student protest which received extensive members of the athletic communimedia coverage and a petition submitted with well...

In an examination of group members' responses to the threat of negative in-group characterizations, sorority/fraternity members were asked to rate themselves, their own sorority/fraternity, sororities/ fraternities in general, and students in general on attributes that were stereotypic of sororities/ fraternities. Results showed that individuals selectively self-stereotyped-they embraced positi...

This panel discussion will examine the methodological traditions currently existing amongst the fraternity of information security researchers. Information security researchers commonly engage in research activities ranging from the highly technical, to the ”softer” human orientated. As such, researchers engaged in the field of information security could potentially make use of research philoso...

The fraternity coefficients can be approximated by a straightforward simulation approach, which keeps track if the genes of two individuals are identical by descent. We assume a pedigree consisting of n individuals, and denote by mi and fi the mother and father of individual i, respectively. If either of the parents is unknown (e.g. i belonging to the first generation in the pedigree or being a...