{"id":1522,"date":"2004-02-12T18:16:03","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T18:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2013-03-19T16:10:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T16:10:17","slug":"words-from-the-regional-director-by-marty-haskell-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/words-from-the-regional-director-by-marty-haskell-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Words From the  Regional Director By Marty Haskell \u201868"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RE C O G N I T I O N \u00a0F O R \u00a0T H E \u00a0ME N \u00a0O F \u00a0PR I N C I P L E IN I T I A T I V E<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beta Theta Pi continues to receive recognition for the Men of Principle Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, Beta received the prestigious Association of Fraternity Advisors Award for Excellence in Educational Programming for the Men of Principle Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>This year Beta has once again been honored with this same award, this time for the Beta Wilderness Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Beta Foundation Director Jonathan Brant accepted the award at a large gathering of university administrators and fraternity staff<br \/>\npeople from all over the Greek world.<\/p>\n<p>In November our recolonization effort at Indiana University was featured in the Indiana Daily Student (IDS). The story can be read in its entirety on line at the following link: http:\/\/www.idsnews.com\/story.php?id=19686<\/p>\n<p>Currently the Board of Directors is undertaking a strategic mission review. Originally a committee was put together to review<br \/>\nprogress and develop strategic planning for the Men of Principle Initiative (MPI). They quickly determined that the issue was to what<br \/>\nextent to apply MPI across the fraternity as a whole. Currently MPI is a voluntary program that individual chapters need a 90% vote to<br \/>\npursue, although, all new colonies are established as Men of Principle chapters. Currently there are over 30 MPI chapters out of 135.<\/p>\n<p>Yours in \u2014kai\u2014, \u00a0Marty<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/0225.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Dr.-W.-Martin-Haskell.jpg\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9513\" alt=\"Dr. W. Martin Haskell\" src=\"http:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Dr.-W.-Martin-Haskell.jpg\" width=\"111\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RE C O G N I T I O N \u00a0F O R \u00a0T H E \u00a0ME N \u00a0O F \u00a0PR I N C I P L E IN I T I A T I V E Beta Theta Pi continues to receive recognition for the Men of Principle Initiative. In 2001, Beta received the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-news","category-theta-data","tag-february-2004-theta-data","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9606,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/9606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}