Fraternity brothers lend helping hands in Jamaica
Kansas University students, from left, Landon Plumer, Wichita senior; Ray Segebrecht, Lawrence junior; and J.R. Keller, Godfrey, Ill., senior, left Sunday for a weeklong trip to Jamaica, where they will volunteer at an orphanage and work with Food for the Poor Inc. In addition to volunteering, the students plan [...]
Journey of HopeFraternity rides to raise money for disabledBy David Bell
Sunday’s temperatures may not have approached the record 128 degrees set June 29, 1994, but don’t try saying it was cooler to the members of the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
Thirty members of the fraternity cycled in to Lake Havasu City Sunday, part of the Journey [...]
For Hopkins students, a bald moveSigma Phi Epsilon fraternity braves clippers to raise funds for cancer foundationBy Nick Madigan Sun reporter
“Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair … My hair like Jesus wore it, Hallelujah, I adore it.”
That ode to flowing locks, from the 1968 hippie musical Hair, would not have served yesterday [...]
U. Maryland fraternity fundraising with fecesBy Derby Cox, The Diamondback
While using public restrooms may give some students performance anxiety, Lumpy, a 400-pound bull, had no such problem Saturday afternoon.
He had been strolling around his enclosure when he paused at a far corner of his pen, surveyed his surroundings and calmly defecated.
“We have dumpage!” a woman [...]
Shaved heads for cancer kidsDrexel University fraternity brothers are shaving their heads today as part of a goal to raise $25,000 for children with cancer.
Sigma Phi Epsilon is raising the money on behalf of St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a national organization that calls for volunteers to shave their heads in symbolic empathy for chemotherapy patients.
More than [...]
Sorority Kappa Delta Annual Greek God ContestMeg Power
Coach Bombay, from the ’90s film “The Mighty Ducks,” was well honored last Thursday night. This year’s annual Kappa Delta Greek God Contest used the classic hockey movie as this year’s Greek God theme, and Dave Arrigg of Sigma Phi Epsilon was crowned “top duck,” or this year’s [...]
Big-hearted GreeksSororities, fraternities plan philanthropy eventsMatthew Knoche
It’s spring, and Pitt State’s Greek community is out in full force raising money for various causes.
With events like Special Olympics Spring games, the Big Event, and Up Till Dawn, fraternities and sororities have many opportunities to get involved.
Some houses adopt one big project a semester or year, and [...]
Sigma Phi Epsilon to host ‘Hoosier Sweetheart’ ThursdayBy Ashlyn McNeal
Returning to campus after a six-year absence, Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity will host a talent competition to benefit young people with AIDS.
Hoosier Sweetheart is a talent show similar to Big Man on Campus but for female IU students, said Scott Ryan, executive philanthropy coordinator for [...]
Tulane Sig Eps Continue Winning Service
In the summer of 2007 the Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation recognized Louisiana Alpha’s post Katrina service work. The foundation extended us the opportunity to apply for a $5,000 grant to continue our chapter’s service work in New Orleans as a part of the Honor of Philias award that [...]
Student organizations support tornado victimsRobin Phelps
After last week’s turbulent weather, Murray State organizations have stepped up to support the students at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., after a tornado left the campus devastated.
The tornado not only destroyed the women’s dorms and collapsed buildings, but also put nine students in the hospital overnight and left many [...]
