T Cernan:"To the Rji's at Utah Eugene A.Ceman,Purdue, the Apollo 17 commander visited Tremontan, Utah, very gracious In accepting "It's the gift and In greeting share tnls moment with his brothers. Several weeks later we March 21. Despite the resistance of local police received from several FIJI brothers were Houston, a huge able to approach give beer him a mug. him and Utah State Cernan was photograph of P^rge." NASA, in mounted brother Cernan on the moon. On the border were the wordsi NO. 2 self In dllemna. find my somewhat To FIJI'S, of a gram, which has especially Important step In educating Rg Dinner April 27 the right direction. The Immediate the near goals In future are that give you the eight new actives to the traditions and Ideals PAGE 1 taken an of establishing permanent housing plans aid Increas somewhat of an Idea as to" ing our membership to ap the state cfUpslion Sigma. proximately 35, both of Coming back to school which should be accom next fall will be approx plished within the next imately twenty one bro year. thers, of which only five In closing, I would like will be seniors. This Is to apologize Ibr the short due to our unusually good ness and vague manner of rush this fall. this message, but I shall Our main endeavors this be giving a more In-depth year have been devoted to view at the Pig Dinner phllanthrophy and also to and I do not want to ap the new Job of and iji begin with, I guess, I will E.A.Cernan UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY WINTER I973 It has never occured to me before,as to what com poses a presidents' mes I with graduates In the area. Drop by and see It! Letter From The President sage, and I now pride We would like to share this momento with all fioUen VOLUME 2 with Up-comlng, April 27, Is Upsllon Sigma's sixth annual Pig Dinner. Ogden City Manager, Richard L. Larsen will be the speak er. Cost for the will be $5.25. uates are Invited. An excellent opportunity for grads and iindergrads to get acquainted and to renew old acqualntences, the dinner will be held at Holiday Inn In Ogden . A cocktail hooir been planned to pear repetitive. It seems 7s30» almost a dinner at 8 s 30. sin to take the dinner All grad has begin at to be followed by broad spectrum of our house and put It in one or two paragraphs, so I be with us. three seniors. would like to ask all the be a Another new facet cf our brotherhood Is Brother Rlddleb Innovation of our Utah FIJI8 The annual presentation of the "DanniesV and all of Upsllon Sigma;a rather difficult graduate Job with only relation's pro to attend the Pig Dinner on the 27th. Fraternally, Bob Hammerle Mark the dates on your calender now, and plan to the Its going to grandiose good times Pig Dinners. affair. of past \r\nEDITORIAL; This editorial page has been In the past devoted to current Issues at Utah State. It has blsen Included In an effort to keep graduates In formed about what has been occurlng at their old school. However, this feature might not be what ya'll want. Comments cerning and Issues or crltlsms con suggestions for Issues to be covered In future pub lications this 3i>iK< Volume II No.2 are paper welcomed. Is for effort to serve Remember you and you, we must In an have your opinion. Letters to the editor, therefore, w Intel* 1973 are encouraged. The GOLDEN SPIKE FIJI is the official Another newspaper of the Upsllon Sigma Chapter feature starting In the of Phi Gamma Delta at Utah State Uni next Issue will be "Grad Feedback." versity and Is published occasionally This column will provide addresses and current endeavors of graduates who have been lost? by their bro by Its members. thers. Editor: Chris Bell Art: Joe Gardner Reporters: Joe Dletz and Brothers If you have a co-lnltlate from the class of '69 and don't know where he Is and vwant to get .In touch. Just write the Edltor-FIJI SPIKE, 636 East 5 North, and NEW OFFICERS: Upsllon Sigma started Into '73 new set of chapter with a bright officers. Hammerle They are: (73) we'll print all the particulars. Again, lets have some grad support! President-Bob Natural Resources, Treastirer-Cralg Schvanevelt (7^), Computer Science, Correspondence Secretary-Paul Nanney (73) Mechan ical Engineer, HistorIan-Bruce Don- nachle (75) Political Science, and Recording Secretary-Mitch Mason(74) Pre-Med. The newest Innovation In the cab inet has been the weekly Sunday Night Cabinet Meeting. This meetInt Is useful In getting new busi ness hashed out In advance of Monday night and provides a-chance for re view and research If necessary. This new approach has tended to cut down long meetings and make things run smoothly. In a way. It's a form of the Mike Crumn get-the-meet- Ing-over-wlth-ln-a-hurry method. UJelj, If Tf^ty Cqm Com6 To Our Pio TKcy Cofi/ a \r\nHALL or JUITK \. »k:^ /i- Around the House I Fijis Take * POLITICAL CONFERENCE t Leadership Our graduate Brother Peter Cooke has shown his involvement in his direc t Positions torship of UTAH VOTE. The non-partisn organization recently sponsored a con NEW COOK Joe Gardner a new active is now our cook-most of the brothers eat at J.a's It is reminiscent of when Ruppe and Jingles cooked. Our cook also performed was not gas Chapter Theory with many prominent tronomic in nature. With has continued to provide speakers including poli- a gallon of wine and a leadership to the campus, titions and newsmen. helper (Rich Tayler) he ference Upsllon on Political a feat that Sigma and are involved in a variety of endeavors. Bruce Donnachie is cur The FIJI House put up ten of the many high created a big wooden death trap which was to be a battle of school students from all over ihe state who came to tion. Studentbody Elections. He is running for the Cultural Vice President, and his popular platform the conference. It provi ded us with a great chance at rushing them. includes free is in good hands with the room. concerts as well FIJIs. provment of the attempts and much advice he now sleeps there con rently in the outdoor as im- Never Fear—The campus current desk-bed-shelves combina ed Using the remodel Blue ample, Room as an ex he built a quite sturdy multi-use unit in the large main floor bed After several Fine Arts Film presenta tions in student govern BLACK ment. of the Black Diamond. The house is now full of as sorted secret beds and Ballroom at the Ben Lo mond Hotel was carefully passage ways. Come visit Our ex-treasurer,Stubby (Joe Dietz) was elected to the post of IFC Presi dent on have two campus. FIJIs Government. We now on IFC Kipper Wight tentedly. DIAMOND March 3 marked the night picked because of its fa cilities. dancefloor, and the proximity of a state liquor store. A few Other involvement in cludes several members in drank to honorary le can testify. The even copy Life, editor and at Student positions on various committees such as the Movie Committee. excess as was House" with - REMEMBER - The 1973 Norris Pig Dinner by will be held in all the April 27! highlighted after-parties rooms. the "Mystery our new president. Bob Hammea>- ing Graduates; the Good food, its many new structures. cheap rooms, is IFC Secretary. fraternities, a Warning \r\nBirthday Party rw- A quiet evening was spent at the FIJI House the gentle guzzling of two kegs was the only noise. The brothers Join Graduate based that Relations on the is philosophy "Phi Gamma Delta is not ft)r college days alone." We at Upsilon Sigma believe the chapter•s activities to ed in a meaningfull ex There except General Headquarters change of gifts. and a few interested PIJIs were SB few minor accidents caused by ffiiulty materials in Utah who have done won derful things fbr the chap The kitchen window was so letters, we have worked on that it couldn't ter and to whom we are fragil greatly indebted for their withstand the minor stam to the back yard. time and efforts. The vast pede iron frying pan number of other PIJIs who The cast were in Utah did not rep was also of such poor resent to the chapter an quality that it made a very poor cjrmbol. A small interested audience be our files cause this strongly and so this year we have made a dili gent attempt to contact the Brothers in Utah and interest them in us. We have written several news to get them up- to-date, we have obtained a computerized list of all the graduates in the state from whicha directory will be published for the grad uates, and we are working presently on this years Norris Pig Dinner arrange ments, Just to name a few of our projects. of their lack of al blow. It couldn't hold We are interested, how ever, and we hope that some of you who have been the fragile body of our president for his fare well speech. After two kegs for twenty brothers in Utah for have missed we retired after what seemed to be an eventless awhile and some of the activities a chapter can provide for graduates, Though Upsilon Sigma has graduates can be for a chapter and have recently We know what come to miss the asset wisdom few years that the chapter has taken serious interest in the realm of Graduate Relations. I feel this provide. Therefore, we are making an attempt to dreadful tablish a good program and hope the response will be in proportion to our a misconception on the part of the chapter. As a young colonly, and young chapter I do not set guidance an and delay was due to grads can things^ right and es efforts. believe that the Relations entailed. Why? Simply because they had no (So as not to offend any of our graduates, the middle paragraph is a mere speculation on my graduates at that time, or part.) members were actually cog nizant of few if any. one else to what There Graduate was"no communicate night. All Greek Party with us these activities, starting with the Pig Dinner, April 27. been the last cheap- Grad Relations. Why did It take so long, you might ask? It has only table (of graduates and knowledge of construction) was the fin will share been chartered since 1968. wooden The FIJIs once again showed there unique abll-? ity for throwing the best parties on campus. There was entertainmentfbr all; football and pool tourna ments in the game-room, volleyball in the back yard, stag flicks in the chapter room, poker and spades in the livingroom, with a little live action upstairs. The first keg was tap ped at 2:00 pm Saturday and the last one drained 2:30 am Sxinday. Two Brothers carried the Sigma Chi President home Fraternally, put him to bed. It Charles G. Riddle an exciting evening. and * was \r\nsports more arouna tne nouse., IDAHO STATE COLONIZATION Six brothers Journeyed SPRING CLEANUP For all you gradiiates Nortn ro Poccatello for the installation of the we hope none Delta colony. We ran into Ron Inna, the section Junk was yours. It was an chief, who once did hand stands in our livingroom as a field secretary. A Brother from Dennison"08" was also there. We later moved to the closest bar U-Haul of the trailer xanbelievable of stuff we two loads of collection had accumu lated over the past six years. As an example, we found eight baseball bats and we thoughts had only The Volly Ball Team spoiled their perfect re cord by defeating the AGR team in straight sets during the Intramurals. And the bowlers rolled into third place. Just three games from first. Sunday Dinner Wager two. to "degenerate." The Idaho State men SECTION CONVENTION helped A true success in every way. Three cars and 13 garden as well as the closets, halls, and bath PIJIs headed South to Al- rooms. bequrque lead by our in famous iUrpie Legionnaire, Coconut. Our knowledge of the Purple Pilgrim Is still unbelievable, down South. THE POOL TABLE The house purchased a pay pool talbe from the cactus club out of indi vidual donations. After removing a wall it was easily Installed, .along witha list of pool rules. The bar was to provide moved back more room for us clean up the We hauled off ten or so garbage bags full of leaves and weeds. bar. Shelves and ner. And since Ruppe and Jingles/ Well, it was finally torn down as an eye sore. It was falling apart and was a danger to the volleyball players. graduates and chapter know, everyone is trying to cook up some thing that doesn't cost much. Coming to mind, therefore, are pictures of PIJIs sneaking through the house and neighbor's vegetable garden. But a new After the cleanup and trips to the dump, we had a retreat to long discuss the range goals of the beer stacks of And in tradition,, the way was in vented last Sunday to get Sunday night dinner money. The Editor bet Stubby that it was possible to carry 2^- house. its the end of the fiscal week, most people don't have any funds what-so-ever. So, as the Do you remember the Bar B-Q grill built by BR, pool and to create a sep arate On S\inday, there exists the problem at Upsilon Sigma of procurring din glasses 12. the $5 wafeer In in two fact, stated that lights have been put up and it looks Just like USU PIJIs boat-raced the Idaho Brothers under the ried around the block. the club. invited to come play with table. Needless to say the keg ran dry in short order, and Simday was the were broken, in addition to the spirit and arms of our new toy. day of the Beer Blues. the Editor. You gradsare especially the glasses jiust be car Well, only two glasses Pocatella FUls come to Retreat During April the from the Delta Pocatello, weekend of five men The various closets and nicks and cranneys. Coco Colony in nut our Purple legionnaire, Idaho came to was able to talk to most of them about the Frater Logan for a visit. Among the visitors, was their days and enjoyed our warm hospitality long enough to help with our Spring nity. Hopefully we were all a help, showing them our Delta Colony publicap tions and discussing what they're going to have to do to become a Chapter. However, they still have Cleanup. While we cleaned not found out who GRAND OLD MAN is. president,John Swirzcki. The men stayed for two out the TheOgden Railroad is still Alive!