KAPPAS IN THE COMMUNITY
Above: Students engage law enforcement panelists. Left: Grand Board Member McMikle participates in a television interview. Right: A New Orleans law enforcement officer explains what one should do when interacting with police during an encounter at one's home.
McMikle: To date, we’ve been to: Hartford, Connecticut; Chicago, Illinois; Houston, Texas; Oakland, California; Los Angeles, California; Compton, Cali- fornia; St. Louis, Missouri; San Ber- nardino, California; Gary, Indiana; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; New Orleans, Louisi- ana; Opelousas, Louisiana; Washington, D.C.; Detroit, Michigan and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. We have done multiple forums in several of those cities. Q: How have school leaders participat- ed, reacted or supported the initiative? McMikle : The support and feedback for this initiative has been tremendous.
The demand is great; requests are pour- ing in and we’re being asked to come back to cities and schools that we’ve been to already. Q: Can you provide a sense of average attendance? What was the smallest/ largest group that has experienced the program? McMikle: We average 500 students per forum. We have had three forums with less than 100 students and forums as large as 2,000 students. Q: Is there more that individual broth- ers/chapters can do to sustain the mes-
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McMikle: We want to bring these fo- rums to as many cities as possible. If a chapter is interested in hosting a forum in their city or on their campus, their Polemarch or designee should contact me and we’ll make it happen. It’s that simple. If brothers are interested in working on this initiative to push the agenda forward, they should contact me as well. Q: What has been your most poignant moment related to this initiative?
McMikle: There are three. The first is
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