T. Harry
Williams Center for Oral History Collection
INTERVIEWEE
NAME:
Kathy Marcel COLLECTION:
4700.0328
IDENTIFICATION: Current Greek
Affairs Director at LSU
INTERVIEWER: Melisse
Campbell
PROJECT: LSU History
DATES: September 23,
1993 FOCUS DATES: 1930-1993
ABSTRACT:
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Marcel's
immediate family history and early schooling; why Marcel wanted to attend
college; ability of freshman to live on campus; Marcel's first experiences on
campus; classes with T. Harry Williams; students living in dorms and permission
needed to leave; Marcel's favorite professors; experiences student teaching;
dorm rules; student fear of Dean Gordon former Dean of Women; Marcel's
extra-curricular activities; rush held in the Panhellenic building; sorority
alumni holding teas prior to rush; differences in awareness of the rushees
between Marcel's rush and current practices; the importance of recommendations;
pledgeship and first year on campus; initiation; activities held at Ms.
Burden's house; Marcel's final sorority choices; the role of sororities and
fraternities; fraternities that she knew members of; the effect having houses
had on rushing practices; offices that Marcel held in the Kappa Delta sorority;
social life at LSU and sporting events; activity points; student during
Marcel's undergraduate education who were influential on campus; LSU Darlings;
Miss LSU; the history of sororities at LSU; why no sorority houses at LSU; what
sorority members thought of getting houses; the layout of the original Kappa
Delta house; the layout of the new Kappa Delta house after the original was
burned; the rules of the sorority house; employees of the Kappa Delta house;
moving into the Kappa Delta house; the positive aspects of living in a sorority
house; the student view of Dean Jameson former Dean of Women; her first job
after graduation working as one of the national field secretaries for Kappa
Delta; entering graduate school; working at LSU for the housing office.
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Becoming
the Assistant Director of Greek Affairs at LSU; current responsibilities of the Director of Greek
Affairs at LSU; suspending a group from campus; alcohol; how rush currently
works, mutual selection and quota adds; computerization of rush process;
low rush numbers; impact of LSU
selective admissions policy on sororities and fraternities; the lifetime
commitment of rushing a sorority or fraternity; community service points;
historically African-American groups on campus; Marcel's view of the future of
sororities; involvement of students with disabilities; diversity in sororities
and fraternities; local sororities and fraternities; list of when the sorority
chapter were founded on campus; reputation of sororities and fraternities; the
impact that being a member of Kappa Delta had on Marcel's life; the people who
she has touched through her work as Greek advisor; differences in
approachability between her and former campus officials.
TAPES:
463,
464 TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 2.5
Hours
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PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 99
RESTRICTIONS: None.