Chapter News campus and we had a huge turnout. In the future, we hope to hold a few more Bar B Q’s with hopes to get a large turnout of rushes for the next semester. Zeta Chi has had an exciting spring semester thus far. We currently have our largest pledge class in 4 years. With many graduating seniors this year, the new class will play a large part in our future progress. On another note, Zeta Chi has won the Intramural Fraternity Soccer League Championship for the second straight year, and hopes to win the 5-on-5 basketball tournament for the 2nd straight year as well. After our return from spring break, we will host a faculty car wash as an Ace project that has proved itself to be a huge success after a large turnout last year. The end of the semester looks promising, as we hope to initiate all of our new members. Salisbury
Theta-Xi Chapter
The Theta Xi chapter has had a very successful year, being the only fraternity on campus to be awarded A Chapter. This semester we have been participating with an organization called Surfrider helping to clean up our local beaches. We had our traditional camping trip to Assateague Island just prior to initiating our latest Kappa pledge class. We are looking forward to celebrating our five year anniversary in April. San Jose State Beta-Eta Chapter We had a very successful semester this fall and we initiated a total of eleven new members. Participation in fraternity events increased and we had good participation in other fraternity and sorority events. This spring we plan to rush hard and pull some where around ten additional pledges. We have many freshmen Junior Initiates who should be able to bring in additional pledges this spring. This spring should be another successful semester with a good focus on grades and events such as founders day and our basketball
Currently we’re nearing the end of classes and pledgeship for the Fall. The Gamma Pledge class returned a couple of days ago from experiencing a history tour at Alpha’s road rally and are looking forward to being initiated into the secrets and mysteries. Southern Tech Epsilon-Alpha Chapter
Omega Chapter brothers, Oregon State, clowning around during a Bar-B-Q for alumni during homecoming
tournament. We are currently planning out the semester schedule and it should be completed shortly. Two of our active members Mather Bales and Ivan Trujillo are graduating as of this semester. Santa Clara
Zeta-Eta Chapter
The brothers at the Zeta Eta chapter have had another great year so far. We initiated a total of 21 men. Over Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, a total of 10 brothers and a few alumni went on immersion trips to build houses in Mexico. We also have dominated in Sorority philanthropy events, winning Alpha Phi’s Star Search and having teams place in the top three at Kappa Alpha Theta’s Dodgeball Tournament. We are currently planning ahead to the spring, organizing our MS Volleyball Tournament, Father-Son and Mother-Son weekends, and a brotherhood bowling league. Southern Arkansas Epsilon-Kappa Chapter The Epsilon Kappa Chapter of Sigma Pi at Southern Arkansas is having an excellent spring semester. After only having two pledges in the fall our recruitment has gone up a lot and we have acquired 15 really good guys for the spring semester. The brothers of Sigma Pi at SAU
have started getting more involved with the community and have gained over 125 hours of community service since January. We are looking forward to our ace project that should be coming up really soon. We are about to take our annual river trip and attend our Formal in the upcoming weeks and that should be a lot of fun. Southern Illinois - Edwardsville Delta-Omega Chapter Exciting things are happening at the Delta Omega chapter. We are preparing to initiate 15 new members and have high goals with the newly elected Executive Council. While our campus is transitioning to a Division 1 school, we are examining recruitment procedures in order to improve rush. Although Greek life tends to struggle at SIUE due to lack of housing, the brothers of Delta Omega topple the competition of other fraternities. During the end of October, our chapter hosted its first Haunted Trail fundraiser that raised nearly $1500 in two evenings. Winding down fall semester, the focus on finals is intensifying as brothers work together to boost our GPA over the other chapters on our campus for a second consecutive semester. As spring rush approaches, we look towards recruitment and
actively search our campus for worthy prospects. The Delta-Omega Chapter made over $2,000 at our last fundraiser, Take a Ride with Sigma Pi. This fundraiser is a yearly success, but it also provides students at SIUE a bus service to Mardi Gras in St. Louis by making sure they get back safely. Rush Week yielded eight new pledges, all of whom are exceptionally raising the bar for the chapter. We also initiated nine new brothers this semester, boosting our numbers and strengthening our brotherhood. We are taking active leadership roles in the Greek community, including two brothers who were recently elected to executive roles within Greek Council. Brother and Sage Tim Mims is the newlyelected Sergeant-at-Arms and Tony Mason continues to excel as Vice President, with the latter helping spearhead an All-Greek Ball for the entire Greek community. Southern Indiana Theta-Psi Chapter The men of Theta-Psi chapter have had a busy semester. We started the semester off with a bang, by hosting a hog roast as our ace project. Next, we hosted the organization’s Executive Directer Mark Briscoe as he gave a speech on Sam Spady to a mixed USI audience.
This semester has been great for our members. We have five pledges who show a great commitment to the fraternity and our ideals. Elections are coming up, and we have several active members with fresh ideas who really want to advance our image on campus running for council. Fundraising at the Georgia Dome has proven to be a lucrative and enjoyable means of getting money. We are planning to hold a dance to celebrate the selection of our sweetheart at some point in the coming weeks. In addition, our Founders’ Day celebration was very successful. We had several alumni who we hadn’t seen for a while show up, and we all had a good time watching videos from a camping trip we went on earlier in the semester. We are looking forward to next semester, in which we are expecting to have a pledge class that is even larger than our current selection. SUNY – Buffalo Epsilon-Omicron Chapter It was another successful semester for the brothers of the Epsilon Omicron chapter. The chapter successfully completed multiple philanthropy events, continuing a longstanding tradition of working hard to better the community. As next semester approaches rapidly, the chapter has spent a lot of time preparing the second half of the school year. Elections were held for new committee chairs for both Pledging and Spring Recruitment and the date has been set for our Thirtieth Annual Active/ Alumni Formal. The chapter has also made plans for our first ever ACE Project Charity Basketball Tournament which will take place in late Spring. With a busy semester ahead,
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