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PERSPECTIVES by annie palmer | staff writer; photos by spencer bodian | staff photographer
Can Yogurtland outlast below-freezing temperatures?
“I haven’t been to Yogurtland since the semester began, but I doubt that the sales will go down significantly. If I’m around on Marshall Street, I’ll go no matter what the season is.” Ben Kintish
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Pi Phi charter at a fall chapter meeting. The fraternity’s Grand Council voted at its October meeting to allow the chapter to operate until the end of the school year. Phi Delta Theta returned to SU’s campus after a 20-year absence. Before becoming an official fraternity in September, Phi Delta Theta became a recognized colony in December 2011. Anthony Greco, vice president of public relations for the chapter, said alumni have done “a lot of the leg work” in terms of negotiating with
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“I think that Yogurtland still gets as many customers as any other season, no matter if it’s in the negative degrees. Me and my friends still go to Yogurtland, even if we’re sick.”
“I don’t think the business will go down because I think people still go there after basketball games and when they’re out on the weekends. I still like it just as much in the winter.”
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Pi Phi. He added there is “a lot of back and forth” between the two organizations, and that no definite timeline is set. The funds from the sale will be placed into a Pi Phi restricted funds account for the next 20 years and can be used in the future if the Pi Phi chapter re-colonizes on the Syracuse University campus, said Eily Cummings, marketing and communications director at the Pi Phi headquarters, in an email. “These women have shown tremendous strength and poise throughout this process,” Cummings said. Although the chapter relinquished its charter, the remaining undergraduate members will have
alumna status and receive all of the benefits. Tracy Gensler, an SU and Pi Phi alumnus, said she and her fellow sisters were in constant communication with the Pi Phi headquarters about the status of the chapter, and were mailed a letter about the selling of the house. Gensler said she commends the efforts of the current sisters and local alumni. “We’re all really, really sad about the sale of the house. We often talked about meeting at the house for a reunion,” she said. “It’s just so hard to believe that the house won’t be owned by Pi Beta Phi anymore.”
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