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Pep BandThe Pep Band is open to all students on campus. This ensemble performs throughout the football andbasketball seasons. If enough students are interested in participating a Marching Band will be formed inaddition to the Pep Band. Students participating in the Pep Band may receive a scholarship.Dr. Larry Wells, 630-7602Peer Counselor AssociationThe Peer Counselor Association is open to all people who wish to learn more about counseling andadvising techniques, as well as those who just want to help around campus. There are different workshopsthat will be held for members and other students throughout the year.Darlene Hopkins, 630-7150PGM FellowshipThe Professional Golf Management Fellowship is a campus Christian organization created by golfstudents to assist with exploring or continuing a relationship with Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviorin an open discussion format lead by the students or guest speakers. Students also participate inrecreational activities as well as various events in and around campus. Regular meetings are held onMonday evenings at 8:00 pm, in the Cape Fear Commons Community Building.Bob Burns, 630-7180Phi Alpha DeltaThe purpose of this Fraternity shall be to form a strong bond uniting students and teachers of the lawwith members of the Bench and Bar in a fraternal fellowship designed to advance the ideals of libertyand equal justice under law; to stimulate excellence in scholarship; to inspire the virtues of compassionand courage; to foster integrity and professional competence; to promote the welfare of its members;and to encourage their moral, intellectual, and cultural advancement; so that each member may enjoya lifetime of honorable professional and public service.Phi AlphaEta Rho ChapterThe Phi Alpha Honor Society affords its student members fellowship with those dedicated to the promotionof humanitarian goals and ideals for which quality educational preparation is deemed imperative.Students and faculty involved in social work education foster high standards of education and inviteinto membership those who have attained excellence of scholarship and distinction of achievement asstudents in the social work major.Dr. Carla Ford Anderson, 630-7699Pi Kappa AlphaPi Kappa Alpha’s members strive to be Scholars, Leaders, Athletes, and Gentlemen and they seek excellence ineverything they do. Pi Kappa Alpha’s men are also called PIKES. The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity was founded atthe University of Virginia on March 1, 1868. PIKES is currently going through the process of becoming an officialcolony on campus. They started up in the Spring of 2012. Their recruitment process is fully recommendations only.Pi Sigma AlphaPi Sigma Alpha is the national honor society for Political Science. It was founded in 1920 at the Universityof Texas for the purpose of bringing together students and faculty to stimulate scholarship and intelligentinterest in Political Science. Today there are over 650 chapters nationwide. Qualifications include being rankedin the top third of one’s graduating class, and having a 3.0 GPA in all Political Science classes. MethodistUniversity’s Omega Chi chapter has been active since 2001, and has inducted 99 members. Information aboutscholarships and other opportunities can be obtained from the national web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~psa/.Dr. Chris Cronin, 630-7665Phi Sigma IotaPhi Sigma Iota is an international honor society for juniors and seniors majoring or minoring in foreignlanguages who have at least a B average in their entire University work and in all foreign language courses,have completed at least one course at the third-year level, and rank in the highest thirty-five percent oftheir class in general scholarship. The purpose of this honor society is stated in the motto: “To understandothers is to understand oneself, one’s culture, and one’s heritage.” The goal is to foster the learning offoreign languages as a means of achieving a better understanding among individuals and nations. PhiSigma Iota awards scholarships, fellowships, and grants to deserving, ambitious, young undergraduateand graduate students, as well as faculty, to complete scholarly programs in foreign languages, literatures,and cultures. The Kappa Gamma Chapter at Methodist University was chartered in 1985.70