PHI THETA KAPPA International Honor Society of the Two Year College

Determine if you live in a state that holds referendums on initiatives.  If so, collect, catalog, and analyze the voter guides for all referendums over the past three years to determine how much money was spent in favor of and in opposition to each initiative.  Chart how often the result of the vote favored the side spending the most money.

Research the relationship of private property rights to the creation of power and wealth.  Use a Cartesian plane to graph your findings.  On the x-axis plot countries with ill-defined property rights to those with well-defined property rights.  On the y-axis plot the per capita GDP of those countries.  Share your findings with a political science class. 

At a local high school, sponsor a campus-wide game of Monopoly in which student groups act as players, whose goal is to monopolize the wealth by buying “property.”  With wealth comes the right to issue edicts and make rules that affect the other players.  Following the game, discuss how the players felt when the wealthy players ruled the game, and determine whether the wealthy used or abused their power.
 
Conduct research to determine if people who have a spiritual connection to a higher power tend to (1) have more monetary success and (2) experience more personal happiness than people who do not.  Invite individuals to hypothesize explanations for the results of your research.

Compare several modern democracies including the United States with several modern countries that are not democracies to understand which countries are more or less likely to seek glory.  Measure the behavior of these countries in terms of expansionist efforts, personal freedoms allowed, and deaths due to warring or cultural cleansing.  Share your findings in an essay that you submit to Nota Bene for publication consideration.

Invite a sister chapter to watch the movie Hotel Rwanda.  Ask a faculty member to lead a discussion of how Paul Rusesabagina provides access to power for the people he harbors in his hotel.