Loyola University Chicago

Beta Rho Honors Society  

Beta Rho is a chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, the National Communication Association Undergraduate Honors Society.

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Beta Rho Mission:
As the only active organization at Loyola University Chicago geared towards academically advanced communication majors, it stands as Beta Rho’s number one priority to recognize, foster and award those students who have pushed their talents and ability farther than that which is required from them.  Beta Rho also serves the Loyola community by stimulating interest in the communication field, promoting members’ ideas; establishing and maintaining closer relationships and mutual understanding between faculty and members of the organization.

What we do everyday:

• Beta Rho members have the opportunity to develop leadership skills not only within Loyola, but are quickly becoming recognized as leaders in the Rogers Park Chicago community as well.
• We learn to cooperate, share responsibilities and take initiative within a climate of democratic decision making.
• Members can see in very practical concrete manners, the positive outcomes of coordinated action.
• We are constantly learning first-hand how collective action can impact living contexts.
• We have the opportunity to apply our departmental mission of social justice, and come to experience the diversity of ways in which such a mission may be pursued and understood.
• We have opportunity to meet and work with faculty from Communication and other disciplines, and to cooperate with diverse student organizations.
• Many of us are developing stronger interests in the pursuit of graduate education
• We are learning to deal with conflict, divergence of opinion, and different leadership styles.
• We have stretched the traditional tenets and notions of Lambda Pi Eta farther to include concerns of social justice and being “persons for others” in addition to following closely that which Lambda Pi Eta has outlined in its constitution for the organization.

         Fall 2009: Beta Rho meetings: Tuesdays 5pm at School of Communication
                                              Room 001 Water Tower Campus

E-board: President:  Sophia Venetos
       Vice President:  Ellina Kushnir   Treasurer: Ashley Johnson
             Treasurer:  Kirsten Knudesen
              Secretary: Michael Budd
  Membership Chair: Elizabeth Lightbody
      Faculty Advisor:  Dr. Elizabeth Lozano, elozano@luc.edu
                Contact: betarholuc@yahoo.com  

http://www.luc.edu/orgs/betarho

     Fall 2007 at the Organizational Fair on Lake Shore Campus
     (L to R Laura White, Barrett Newell and Elizabeth Peters)