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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
