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...many minority women who have fought their way to the upper ranks of corporate management, Battles is the product of a fiercely education-minded mother. But her mother, who worked as a teacher and a librarian, was just as passionate about community service. As a member of the sorority Delta Sigma Theta, she gave back all her life-and counseled her daughter from an early...
...white counterparts by emphasizing community service above all, says members, and by expecting participation to continue, if not grow, after leaving college. As a communications officer for mail and document company Pitney Bowes, Battles often pulls long hours. Still she spends up to 30 more hours a month on Delta activities...
...Delta Sigma Theta is a part of the way that I give back to the community," she says. "But I have found ways to serve the community through other organizations as well. For me, its all about trying to keep the doors of opportunity open that so many before me, made it possible for me to walk through, and to open new doors of opportunity for my daughter's generation and those to follow...
Demitra Jones was never in danger of getting lost in the shuffle. At just 18, she was placed as an intern with Pitney Bowes--a mail-and-document-management company in Stamford, Conn.-- by Inroads, a career-development group for urban minority youths. A member of the black sorority Delta Sigma Theta who worked at Inroads was Jones' first mentor, coaching her on "how to behave in the corporate environment." At Pitney she met Michael Holmes, its African-American director of diversity and at the time a director of Inroads, who also mentored her. The internship continued throughout college...
...said the tailgating rules will not have a large effect on the weekend. But other students said they find the tailgating regulations frustrating. “I think tailgating is a big part of the whole Harvard-Yale experience,” said Ian M. Gore, a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Yale. “The weekend is a time for all the students to bond together, and I feel like the new restrictions are just making that more difficult.” Gore added that while his fraternity is not planning to throw a party...