Shorter University is filled with many brilliant students from different backgrounds and with different interests, and there are plenty of organizations that allow students to join together to even greater enhance their abilities. For example, the more studious students are often given the privileged opportunity of joining an honor society.
However, these organizations often divide the students by major, causing an unintended separation between these gifted students. There is one unique honor society, though, named Alpha Chi that transcends these boundaries.
Alpha Chi is a national honor society that includes all majors and all areas of academics. Shorter’s Alpha Chi chapter fully embraces the principle. This joining of majors was even more enhanced this year when four Alpha Chi members of different majors travelled to Chicago for the National Alpha Chi convention, which was March 19-21. These four members included Sarah Geil, an English, psychology, and liberal arts major, Ana Martin, a political science major, Christine Barnes, a theater major, and Morgan Morris, a natural science major.
“It was encouraging to see people from all different areas of expertise share a common love for knowledge and learn from that shared passion,” said Shorter’s Alpha Chi president Sarah Geil.
This year’s national convention was especially monumental for the four visiting students and the rest of the Shorter Alpha Chi. Ana Martin won a prestigious scholarship for grad school. Also, Sarah Geil won a scholarship as well, won a prize for best presentation in British literature, and was elected National Representative for Alpha Chi.
Sarah also said, “It is incredibly humbling to have the opportunity to represent an honor society that does so much good, for the community and for the scholarship.”
Alpha Chi certainly is worthy of its title as an honor society, and its members more than deserve every reward they received this year.
