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Last Chapter Standing (part 2 of 3)

A guest post by Bob Kerr, Coordinator of Greek Life at Oregon State and OGH recipient.
Last Chapter Standing, part two (If you missed part one, Here is the link)
So, how do you know you are playing the game of “Last Chapter Standing”? Well, there are a couple of real good indicators. First, when you [...]

Last Chapter Standing…

A guest post by Bob Kerr, Coordinator of Greek Life at Oregon State and OGH recipient.
Last Chapter Standing…
… may be the direction the North American Fraternal Movement is heading. At a time when the enrollment is generally on the rise, enrollment in the fraternal world is at best managing its loss. If we are who [...]

Sigma Chi Loses George Mason Appeal

Area fraternity loses suit filed after being kicked off campusby Ashley Roberts Hatchet Staff Writer
A judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a George Mason University fraternity late last month that argued the fraternity was unconstitutionally kicked off campus.
In 2005, GMU asked its chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity to leave campus amidst allegations of hazing, [...]

Vermont Latest to Eye Lower Drinking Age

Old enough to vote; old enough to fight and die in Iraq; old enough to buy tobacco and get started on a serious case of lung cancer; but not old enough to drink? Where is the logic in that?
“Our laws aren’t working. They’re not preventing underage drinking. What they’re doing is putting it outside the [...]

NIU Suspension Reduced to Two Years

Sig Eps receive reduced suspensionBy JOHN RANALLO

The NIU chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon’s five-year suspension has been reduced to two years. Sigma Phi Epsilon was found guilty of racial harassment at a hearing Nov. 16, 2007, before a Judicial Board that did not include Judicial director Larry Bolles, who was removed from all judicial [...]

Stereotypes overshadow fraternities’ philanthropic efforts

An interesting look at how “real world” people view fraternity members.
All too often the positive merits of a fraternity are overshadowed by assumptions of hazing, childish pranks and crushing beer cans against our heads after a game of beer pong.
What people don’t hear about is the thousands of hours of community service we contribute every [...]

Illinois Greeks Challenged to return to Founding Values

Illinois Greek Initiative to evaluate IFC fraternities
By Jill Lowthian
In an effort to return University fraternities to their founding values of friendship, leadership, scholarship, service and social advancement the Interfraternity Council, or IFC, has implemented a new standards program called the Illinois Greek Initiative.
“The goal is to eradicate the problems of the negative stereotypes that [...]

CSU Pikes Sued for Damages to Hotel

Hotel to sue local fraternity
Beaver Creek lodge says Pi Kappa Alpha members trashed property
BY HALLIE WOODS
Pi Kappa Alpha, a local fraternity unaffiliated with Colorado State University, could face a $4.5 million lawsuit for allegedly causing heavy damages to a Beaver Creek hotel after a night of partying in November.
Ben Irvin, president of Western [...]

Welcome 2008. Want to make something of it?

Here we are at the cusp of another year. Like most years there was good and bad in SigEp land this year. However, I have watched “year in review” shows on TV until my eyes glazed over and am too tired (read: lazy) to go back and dredge up all the successes and failures we [...]

Sig Ep Suspended for 5 Years from NIU

NIU Frat Suspended In Anti-Semitic Harassment(WBBM) -An anti-Semitic harassment incident has resulted in the 5-year suspension of a prominent fraternity at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.
WBBM’s Pat Cassidy reports.
As WBBM first reported, Sigma Phi Epsilon faced a 10-year, virtual death sentence suspension for the incident earlier this year.
At issue, was an alleged verbal altercation and [...]

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