P3

Going into P3, I originally wanted to talk about a topic regarding politics. This was an interest of mine because of the current presidential debate but also just a general interest involving the subject. I decided not to further my research in this topic because I believe it is a very difficult subject to discuss and research while having absolutely no bias. This pertains to both my own writing as well as finding scholarly articles that do not lean to one side. I also was having a difficult time coming up with what my research question would be, since I have never written a paper on politics. I changed my topic of study to Greek life, specifically fraternity’s. I am interested in this topic because I do not know a lot about it and I believe that will help my writing as far as being as unbiased as possible. The topic of Greek life is within our course work of Ethics in Higher Education but the texts in EHE are more along the lines of sorority life, which honestly does not interest me as much. Fraternities have more of an edge because of all of the hazing rumors typical fraternities supposedly engage in. My research question is “What are the positive/negative effects to joining a fraternity with in the Greek Life culture?” I want to split my essay into talking about both the negative and positive things regarding the subject. I believe that discussing both the positive and negative sides of fraternity’s will help my essay be unbiased. As for stakeholders, I think that potential Greek life recruits would find more of an interest towards this topic because it would be a good chance for them to have some research on what things they can get out of being in a frat but also some of the things they could experience, both good and bad. The argument in this research is partially by my own self, because I am including both negative and positive things on the subject. Another stakeholder could be presidents of campus’s because they have a large say on whether or not Greek Life should be on their campus at all. It can also be a good opportunity for overbearing parents to read this research paper, to see if they really want to pay for their child to be involved with an association like this one. I think having potential fraternity members be my stakeholder will be the best crowd because these individuals encourage myself to have the least bias opinion. Potential fraternity members are also important to remember because they are not necessarily associated yet, so they still have an open mind on whether or not this is something they will get involved with or not. This makes them an “unconvinced” stakeholder. My only concerns at this point is finding reliable and relatable sources for my topic. I believe that a personal interview will be a beneficial source for this process. I have written research papers before so I am fairly comfortable with looking for scholarly articles. I enjoy that P3 is centered around what we want to write about!