The annual "Mutual Road to Success" dinner held by the Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Council, and National Pan-Hellenic Council took a turn toward diversity in regards to recent events.

The dinner, began two years ago by former IFC executive vice president, Bob Pilon, was intended to open the links of communication between administration, Penn State president Graham Spanier, and the greek community.

However, neither the administration nor Spanier made it this year.

"We felt that the administration had issues to deal with that affected the entire Penn State campus," said IFC president, Jon Brooks. "We made the decision earlier today for them not to come so they could concentrate on the more pressing issues of the time."

Even with the absence of administration and Spanier, the dinner went on and became an open dialogue for greek leaders to discuss how they would handle the recent events.

"We need to take advantage of our times as leaders at Penn State and take advantage of the opportunity to make a difference," Pilon said.

"We need to take advantage of the opportunity to motivate, to help people become better Penn Staters and most of all take advantage of being members of a diverse and unified Penn State community."

Leaders discussed possible ways to help race issues by utilizing the greek community.

"We're a small population of Penn State," PHC president, Bridget McCarthy said.

"But we have a loud voice.

We need to take that voice and use it to better this campus."

Several plans for action were discussed, including discussions between chapter presidents and chapter members concerning the current issues, educational programs and roundtables on diversity issues for greek members, and written support of the demands of the Penn State Black Caucus.

"We should take the demands of the Black Caucus and present them to other organizations," said Walt Breuninger, former overall chair for the IFC/PHC Dance Marathon. "That way it wouldn't just be the demands from the Black Caucus, it would be from the USG and the PHC and IFC, as well."

Another issue discussed was the lack of knowledge that many people present at the rally had about the demands of the Black Caucus.

"So many people at yesterday's rally were in full support of the motive of the rally, but didn't know what direction to turn to next," Brooks said. "I think we need to direct our members, many of whom were at yesterday's rally and showed 110 percent support for the cause."

Most of all, greek leaders discussed the importance of keeping the recent diversity issues and events from dying away and inspiring their members to take an active role in the events.

"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." National Panhellenic president, Reggan Walker said. "It is important that we, as a greek tri-council can come together and discuss these issues which effect each and everyone of us, and hopefully we will go back and educate each and every member of our chapters how important this issue is."