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Mike Hassell: What’s the best way to manage conflict in fraternity or sorority chapters?

By admin on April 9, 2024

Mike Hassell is educated formally as an engineer (Georgia Tech BEE), humanist (Vanderbilt Master Liberal Arts & Sciences), and executive (Harvard MBA), Mike Hassell is a Renaissance man and a brother of FIJI, reflecting on the fruits from 50 years of curiosity and various pursuits in science, history, psychology, and philosophy. Mike co-founded and managed Knowledge Products, an audio publisher (1985-1998) of 140+ titles on the great ideas of history. During the next 20 years as a senior executive in startup/early businesses, Mike’s main hobby was reading widely in non-fiction – accumulating yet more ideas and resources to fold into the book called Deep Tradeoffs. Deep Tradeoffs packs in 315 quotes, from Aristotle to Stevie Wonder, in 200 pages. By thematically connecting these chunks of wisdom in a thoughtful, probing, conversational overview, Mike illuminates eternally conflicting values and truths. He shows how they’ve been conflicting for millennia — and underlie today’s raging culture wars.

In episode 444 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out why Mike chose Georgia Tech, why he decided to join FIJI, how he knows which business ideas are good ones that are worth funding, what made him want to write the book “Deep Tradeoffs: Finding Balance and Respect In A Polarized, Angry World”, when should we confront vs. accept, is it ‘idealistic’ to be earnestly optimistic or ‘realistic’ to be cynical and pessimistic, when is deception necessary, and what is the best way to manage conflict in our fraternity or sorority chapters. Enjoy!

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGRKLJreXnA

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Ka Baw Say: Why is Fraternity an Excellent Fit for First Generation Students?

By admin on June 13, 2019

[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/10143189/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/191970/” height=”90″ width=”100%” placement=”top” theme=”custom”]Check out my interview with Ka Baw Say, a first generation college student who is originally from Burma, but now a student at the University of Missouri – Kansas City and an undergraduate member of Phi Gamma Delta. We talk about living in a refugee camp in Thailand, immigrating to the United States without his parents, teaching himself English over the Internet, choosing UMKC for college, joining FIJI, why more first generation students should consider fraternities or sororities, what fraternities could do to be more attractive to first generation students, writing his own book, and what he likes to eat in Kansas City.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckK3OqV2hE

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Majesty Uwagerikpe: How can we bring diversity and inclusion to fraternity?

By admin on May 28, 2019

[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/9942776/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/191970/” height=”90″ width=”100%” placement=”top” theme=”custom”]Check out my interview with Majesty Uwagerikpe, VP of Diversity and Inclusion for the IFC at UPenn! We talk about why he chose UPenn, the value of internships as a student, why he chose Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, what his family thinks of fraternity, why diversity is important within student organizations, how to bring diversity into recruitment for predominantly white organizations, how we can make fraternity more accessible financially for students, good diversity initiatives at other colleges, and where to go for great food in Philadelphia.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BypsjqUYRLI

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FIJI brothers run VT/UVA game ball for Jimmy V Cancer Foundation

By admin on November 28, 2015

I was sent a really neat story about the brothers of FIJI that are running the game ball from Blacksburg to Charlottesville for the Virginia Tech football game at the University of Virginia. The FIJI chapters at these two campuses are teaming up to run the football between the two towns, each chapter running the ball for 12 hours with a support bus behind them.

I think this is a great event that two chapters can share, and they’ve done it annually for 13 years. Over that time, they’ve raised nearly $500,000 in this event for the Jimmy V Cancer Foundation. Congratulations!

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