OK, now this is just f***ing weird. The (current) main suspect in the 2001 anthrax letters apparently was obsessed with Kappa Kappa Gamma. All you Kappas out there, better be careful who and how you turn down. There might be a crazed biology nerd in your future.
His decades-long obsession with a college sorority may link [...]
Three articles. How are they related and how does it affect SigEp? Comments encouraged.
First story: Dead DrunkDrinking games prove deadly to college kids - Addictions- msnbc.com
On the morning after the house party on Johnson Street, Jenna Foellmi and several other twentysomethings lay sprawled on the beds and couches. When a friend reached out to wake [...]
Randy Pausch was not a SigEp, and we missed a good guy there. A professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon, his “Last Lecture” video and book (the book is listed in the “S&P Recommends” section) were a source of inspiration for many students and teachers - and even those in the ‘real world.’ Professor Pausch [...]
In all, 4 members of SAE at the University of Texas at Austin will have criminal records. Note that “failure to report hazing” is an offence in Texas.
Two former “pledge trainers” at a University of Texas fraternity — one who was accused of touching a hot clothes iron to pledges’ faces and another accused of [...]
The “News” section of the HQ web site has reprinted this article remembering Jonathan Cote.
“When we found out that he had been taken, it hit you just like a train,” says Sigma Phi Epsilon David Hankins.
November 16, 2006, is a he will never forget. His fraternity brother and close friend Jon Cote was kidnapped [...]
Grand Pres. Steve Shanklin released the following text of the message of condolences sent to the family of Jonathan Cote and to the Florida Alpha Chapter (Univ. of Florida).
To the family of Jonathan Cote,
On behalf of National Board of Directors and the Grand Chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, let me extend my condolences to [...]
Jennings death: 5 years laterBy: Benjamin Pomerance
The telephone rang.
Walter Jennings, Jr., casually lifted up the receiver.
It was a conversation he would soon want to forget.
The voice on the other end was saying strange things. Something about a young man, a Plattsburgh State student, who had been pledging a fraternity when something went terribly [...]
Judge dismisses 62 defendants from Yonts lawsuit:
Remaining respondents are Yonts, national fraternity, corporation that owns house, Murray bar
Bill Bartleman
A federal judge has dismissed 62 members of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at Murray State University from a wrongful death lawsuit filed after Harrison Yonts, one of its members, was involved in a fatal traffic [...]
MIT senior dies in plunge from Back Bay frat houseBy O’Ryan Johnson
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology senior died after plummeting from the fifth floor of his Back Bay fraternity house early yesterday morning, officials said.
The dead man was identified by the college as Robert Wells, 22, a quarterback on the school’s football team, who [...]
The SigEps at NIU were fortunate that no members were hurt in yesterday’s shooting incident. The Pikes, however, lost one of their brothers.
2/15/2008Tragedy Hits Northern Illinois, Pi Kappa Alpha Families
The Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity has confirmed that a member of our Eta Nu Chapter at Northern Illinois University was among those students killed in [...]
