THE SUMMIT
COVER STORY
K appa Alpha Psi’s 14 th Annual National Founders' Day Obser- vance gave birth to the Inau- gural Undergraduate Summit. Friday, January 4, 2019, day two of the Undergraduate Summit was quite gratify- ing as it was overflowing with an all-star lineup of leaders from around the nation. Day two of the Undergraduate Summit featured the University Presidents Panel (UPP) which was met with immense curiosity and great expectations from our undergraduate members of Kappas primarily because of the philosophical diversity of the panelists, nature and top- ics of the panel discussion. The dialogue between the brothers on the panel and our undergraduate broth- ers was existential and provocative based upon the complexities and transformative dynamics within the various iterations of the initiation process. Safeguarding our fraternity, maintaining, sustaining and establishing a paradigm designed to preserve Kappa for the arrival of its bicentennial was the underlying objective and perspective of both the panelists and the undergraduates in at- tendance. Danish Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard declared “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived for- wards.” This is to say that we can only comprehend life and its experiences through our rearview mirror (memory) of yesterday (time). We learn from the past, emulate and replicate the future. In life, we can’t connect the dots by looking forward, we can only do that by looking backward and that then starts to make some sense for us. Human sensory perception ascribes, prescribes and subscribes prayer, loving, hazing, pledging, writing, running, walk- ing, singing and communicating, which all require interpretation; and we un- derstand those enactments by observing (looking) at the past as we live forward to make sense of life ‘here and now’.
By Dr. Samuel Odom
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