Here’s the final update of events that have happened in the past 2 weeks

A tremendous effort has been done to raise the overall house GPA this year. As a result, we ended the year with a little over a 3.16 average, obtaining first place overall fraternity standing. Hard work and dedication was visible in all aspects. Great job guys!

We are currently in our 3 week session which involves a more intense curriculum. We initiated 3 members last week, with formal initiation this sunday.

Today was the all campus awards banquet. Prytanis Lance Smith recieved recognition for outstanding emerging leader of the year. Histor Patrick Parsons recieved recognition for CSC spirit.

Plans are already underway to attend Conclave is New Orleons in August. That should be an exciting time to meet fellow fraters.

Homecoming is early this year, I believe it is the 3rd weekend in September but I am not 100 percent sure. I’ll try to get an exact date by August.

YITB,
Daniel

On Friday April 17th the men of the Zeta Pi chapter  went on a camping brotherhood. We drove about 20 miles west of Canton to J-Mac’s farm. We arrived about 6:30 P.M. and decided that we should get the tents up and start a fire before we did anything else.

We got the tents up and the fire going and began to roast hotdogs and brats when Justin Shawe’s cell phone rings. Its J-Mac and on his way to go get more…camping items , he had gotten his truck stuck. So we loaded up Shawe’s truck with guys and tried to get the truck unstuck. With all of us pushing and Shawe’s truck pulling we hardly moved J-Mac’s truck. It was stuck good and is still stuck there too! After that big deal we started driving back to the campsite when some people met us on 4-wheelers drinking beer and asked us what we were doing. Well J-Mac told them who he was and whose farm we were at and they ended up being J-Mac’s uncles neighbors. Well we made it back to the campsite covered in mud.

We sat around the fire talking, chanting and having a good time till some of the guys who weren’t staying had to go back to campus. Well, the guys at the campsite realized we were out of camping supplies and needed to go and get some more. This was 2:00 in the morning and nothing was open, but by God if we could see the lights, they were open! Well we didn’t get anymore supplies but we did sit around the fire and talked until about 3 A.M.

We all went to bed to come back to campus the next morning. It was a fun time and even though everything did not go as smoothly as we wanted to we all had a good time and enjoyed it. We are hoping that we can have another camping trip in the summer or fall of this year. And we have definitely learned from our mistakes. 

YITB,
JJ Davis (Gut Shot) 

It is my great pleasure to announce that we are the winners of this years Greek week! This year we were paired up with a different sorority for each event, we competed in 7 events. Out of 7 events we took 5 first place wins and 2 second place wins. We are all thinking about trying to get it changed from Greek week to TKE week. here are the list of our events and our winnings:   

GREEK WEEK BANNERS:

1^st Place – Sigma Kappa & Tau Kappa Epsilon

2^nd Place – Chi Omega, Alpha Tau Omega & Delta Upsilon

3^rd Place – Sigma Sigma Sigma & Lambda Chi Alpha

 

 GREEK WEEK BOWLING:

Sorority Division-

1^st Place – Sigma Kappa

2^nd Place – Sigma Sigma Sigma

3^rd Place – Chi Omega

Fraternity Division-

1^st Place – Lambda Chi Alpha

2^nd Place – Tau Kappa Epsilon

3^rd Place – Alpha Tau Omega

 

GREEKS GOT TALENT- SMALL GROUPS:

Sorority Division-

1^st Place – Sigma Sigma Sigma

2^nd Place – Chi Omega

3^rd Place – Sigma Kappa

Fraternity Division-

1^st Place – Tau Kappa Epsilon

2^nd Place – Alpha Tau Omega

 

GREEKS GOT TALENT- LARGE GROUPS:

1^st Place – Sigma Sigma Sigma & Tau Kappa Epsilon

2^nd Place – Sigma Kappa & Alpha Tau Omega & Delta Upsilon

3^rd Place – Chi Omega & Lambda Chi Alpha

GREEK OLYMPICS- TUGS:

Sorority Division-

1^st Place – Sigma Sigma Sigma

2^nd Place – Sigma Kappa

3^rd Place – Chi Omega

Fraternity Division-

1^st Place – Tau Kappa Epsilon

2^nd Place – Alpha Tau Omega

3^rd Place – Delta Upsilon

 

GREEK OLYMPICS- HUMAN PYRAMIDS:

Sorority Division-

1^st Place – Sigma Kappa

2^nd Place – Sigma Sigma Sigma

3^rd Place – Chi Omega

Fraternity Division-

1^st Place – Tau Kappa Epsilon

2^nd Place – Alpha Tau Omega

3^rd Place - Delta Upsilon

GREEK OLYMPICS- LUNCH BAG RELAY:

1^st Place – Sigma Sigma Sigma & Alpha Tau Omega & Delta Upsilon

2^nd Place – Chi Omega & Tau Kappa Epsilon

3^rd Place – Sigma Kappa & Lambda Chi Alpha

YITB, Roadhouse

 A Message from President Lance Smith

Fellow Fraters,

It is with great honor today that I am the one to address you as the Prytanis of the Zeta Pi Chapter. Fifty years ago today the Offices of the Grand Chapter saw it fit to grant our chapter a charter. It is something that I, as well as hopefully you, am eternally grateful for. The house has came along way in those 50 years. Today things are looking great, but we are not content. This house has helped all of us in our mental, moral, and social development, and we need to continue to help men grow. We are positioned to do that for many years. We have never been as diverse as we are now and that is our strength. We take men from all wakes of life and make them better men. Whether it is by teaching them the value of giving back to the community, teaching the importance of education, or just by being a better friend, we can reach all men.

With this being said, I would like to propose a toast. A toast to the principles of our beloved fraternity. A toast to love that binds our hearts with the sturdy chords of fraternal affection. A toast to charity that is impulsive to see virtues in a brother and slow to reprove his faults. A toast to esteem that is respectful to the honest convictions of others and that refrains from treading upon that which is sacred to spirit and conscience. A toast to 50 great years. A toast to the 618 men who have been initiated into the Zeta-Pi chapter. A toast to the hundreds more who will initiate into the house. And finally, a toast to another 50 great years.Thank you all so much for the time, effort, and resources you have supplied us with. We cherish your involvement more than you will ever know.

YITB,
Lance Smith “Lock” 597 

Hello Again, Here’s what’s been happening up on the hill. This week is Greek Week. The theme is Greek Strong, with focus on unity. Instead of being paired with one house, we are paired with all 3 during the course of the week. Greek Olympics is on Saturday. Events include the human pyramid, Double Dare, tug of war, and races of various sorts, as well as numerous other events. We also have several nominations in for Greek awards for 2008, so good luck to all the nominees!

 

This past week we were involved in Intramural Floor Hockey Championships. We finished 2^nd. It was a great season and hopefully we’ll win next year.

 

Please help us welcome our 3 newest Associate members Brett Low, Peter Alexander, and Corey Meyer. Brett is a member of the Baseball team. Peter is a member of the Basketball team. And Corey is actively involved in religion on campus. Look forward to their Bio’s next week!

 

Formal is quickly approaching. Plans are underway to have the dinner and then the dance. The dinner is Prime Rib and Beef Tips with green beans, Mashed Potatoes, and rolls. Hotel rooms may be booked thru the hotel (Americas Best Value Inn) at 217-224-7733, however, the majority of the house will be coming back to campus after the dance. So if you plan on staying, your best option would be to stay in the Canton Comfort Inn. Their number there is 573-288-8800. Look forward to seeing you all!

 

That is also alumni weekend so there will be a softball game on Sunday at the cotton bowl field.

 

YITB,

Daniel

Hi, here is an update on formal.

 

The hotel is the Americas Best Value Inn in Quincy. Rooms are going to be 56 dollars for a double room, and 60 for a single. The phone number there is (217) 224-7733. They have a pool there as well

 

The meal is going to be at the hotel too. They have a nice conference room/dance hall. The food will be Prime rib, Beef Tips, Green Beans, and a few other side dishes. Total for the meal is 15 dollars.

 

Total for a double room and 2 meals with tax is going to be $60. Total for a single room and 2 meals with tax will be $94

 

YITB,
Daniel

This weekend we have something new in the mix! We have decided to have an alumni weekend on the weekend of our 50 year anniversary of getting our charter. Just so you dont think its going to be a lot of sitting around, we have a number of activities planned:

Thursday,
April 2^nd – Arrival/house tours/info on house

Friday,
April 3^rd – Cookout and Bags Tournament 5:00

            Saturday,
April 4^th – Poker Tournament/Other Events TBA 12:00
Formal 5:30

            Sunday,
April 5^th – Softball Tournament 1:00

We hope to see all of you there! if you plan on attending we would love if you could RSVP. You can email me at pcarlenparsons@culver.edu

YITB Roadhouse

Things have been going great so far this semester! One of the big things that we are still striving to improve is our already dramatically improved house GPA. from fall semester of 2007. Fall semester 2007 we had a discouraging 2.35, which has seen a .35 increase in the last year. We are not at all satisfied with this GPA yet and are taking precautions to better ourselves. We have established mandatory study tables for anyone with a GPA lower than a 2.5 Monday and Thursday nights.

Also we had two fraters attend the Regional Leadership Conference in Kansas City, Missouri. Nick Still and Justin Miller learned immense amounts of information on how fraternal matters should be conducted. They have some new ideas about how to do our rituals and how recruitment should be ran. What they learned should be a huge asset to contribute to us overall as a community.\

YITB Roadhouse

Before we left for break we had our officer inductions. Elections went well and we believe we are headed in a great direction.  Here is the list of our new and their new position:

Lance Smith, Prytanis

Daniel Cox & Justin Shawe, Co Epi Prytanis

Will Ryan,  Hypophetes

Kevin Kingsland, Hegemon

Brant Beckman, Grammateus

Justin Miller, crysophylos

Barry Matthes, pylortes

Patrick Parsons, Histor

 

YITB,

Roadhouse

This week we had a flashlite tag with the Chi Omegas. Most of the new members went and said they really enjoyed it. It was held in the library.

We had a visit from the regional director Justin Donnhelly on wednesday night. After a meal at Buffalo Wild Wings, we came back to the house and talked about fundraising and ways to improve the house, as well as new programming.

Next week is finals week so everybody will be studying before thanksgiving break.

I don’t have too much to say this week

YITB,
Daniel Cox