3 A/^O' 3 n(S DiWiVCK '7t The Ogden. Pig Dinner this year was held on April 13th at the Holid;-y Inn in Twenty-one graduates attended from all over Utah, and from as far a- way as aermahy. Cocktail hour began at 7:00 P.h. grads relating now to then. the brothers had with all grads and under- Dinner hie the table about 8:00 gathered it from tne buffet table. were given out for the achievements of the year. after all After dinne;', awards Then the s.teakv^r for this year, Robert Radcliffe, enli.;iitened us on his views of fr-.tternity lite. The Exiles Toast was given by liitch hason and T. D. Romero ;-ave the closing re marks. Following this was another cocktail hour (or hours) as a special treat a slide sliow consistLn.j" of old and sented, complete with narration and supported by '.any with nore B.S. and new sLlles was prespontaneou.^ rem Tks from the graduates. Everyone packed up and loft •ab .;ut midtiight or one, wit . a feeLln ; of having found out so.'iietiiing ao.jut themselves and others. A S;eel .1 thanks goes to 'William L. Tennent, dary Guernsey, Paul Laub, T. Daniel .-ior.ero, and Charles Riddle who donated ihoney this ye ar to the White Owl Club. Member- ship is on the increase!! Vt'e all feel it was a very successful Pig Dinner and would like to t'nank all of you WHO helped uiako it tiiat way Scholarship Last quarter the brother's at the house let down a bit in the field of scholarship. Instead of being number one 1.; ov.erall schol arship, as it has bec.jme our cust om, we dropped to third. \;e Alt'aough did h.ave this setback, pledges came thru and highest sc'nolar^hip our received aviy'way with a 2.8 gradepoiiit. Vi/e sure that we will win tne overall trophy for scholarship for the year when our Spring y^uarter grades come in, even with tht; sli pit drop in gra 06 the If we do ft will fourth year the broth.-;rs and 1 Lsli.iient I . ! ; ! I ! in a row for quite an acco.iip- our intr .mur, 1 te .ms fourth In the overall standings in the overall suandings in the intr i- raurals trophy. Tiie only sports th ;t ar. not cotii leted tennis and track. we are still des for winter. This year have been vastly improved over pre vious ye:.'.rs teams. As we stand now, it looks like we shall pl.ico tliird or should shorts. do for tiie quite nit'a tlie year are As of right ..ow, ^^ell year in both coaiing to a close, -all of the brother's are 1..ek ing toward the fall and fla.g football. With' .a few .good practices a d some luck, the brothers hope to be able to tufh the tide Greeks on a d show c.ampus what tor:^ FIJIS are!!!!!! tlie ot ler true co.^p ti- \r\nTHE PRESIDENT SPERKS Last January i'.iG brothyru fee L that 197^4 is tho :'0,r for the bi-j push. the; Phun-a-thon . and raised over k300 vjQ sol out to aid till! inive./sity on .lau-iiours. We ivanted th . t tr-phy and it iow sits on dollaro and , ut in 1 our jiiantle. A second stej wo d ve tutinxi is to rid us of oivr national uill. We have Prior to the iig had i'uud-raising .rejects and supuort fro:.-! oi;r grvuduvaios. S6it7.7^ and at the end of the skklosia it Dinner wc had a njtio,.al bill or will be at a nice zero. Wo have be,;jua rusa for next ges, Vve will be going to local fall now to sec.:ro a l.rge nuuiber of plodaron.oe inter ot among the hi 7a sell joI.^ to incOiRin^ freshmen. Kan,- jf tne Brothers ivilL be back in school a few v;eeks early to start rush. It has been ostitnatsai that wo h ;ve /ut over L 12,000 in til the hjuse in rent! Why v; sn't this Irouse bou yht 5 ye-u's a •;o .a, a thoy w inted „/+0,000???? ■fhe goia , , >ric;e Uj aon '.i^^y,000 ..lad vve aia; liiarsi.n ; 1 as to uuy it La the f -iLl. uar House Why ;Ut ,..on- :y in s..aneonp else's pocket when it CO 1 1 ! go to u.:; . Co.ri 'orot.Loa v. 11L bo called into cssion La tfio l. 11 so if you are a member please plan to visit us. We need our iraduates supj iort! ! ! ijruce v; , Doniir.ch LC Cha, 'tor Preside-nt BcKckyc(r(\ VcjPle.^b«=in With the rrival .if Sprin _ CO.'. (is picnics, volleyball. a. id outdoor intercourse aniou oth rr things. And while all Oi the br'-ithbrs participate in all of those activities, volleyball in th.; bac'ny.: rd usually ra, ,ks high (secoad to aitdoor intercourse) o.s ono of th- ; a.i.g.il i hits of Spr in .u- rter at USU. 'I'llis OjirLnp;, w ■ \aait tarou';h throe volle.yb weeks not to ., ,onti the nails on the st.v i Is i ai tin- number of ball—pump needles. th first couple of Once we covex'ed up idards, aid once vve got rid of penny (Burl's she-bitch dog vvao punctured on i ball) vve vvor -■ off to a flying start. a. expensive ball so we first thing wo iid was to change price tags oo c .^upla got cases of beer got it for naif price. Tlion w wine, And rounded up as m ny n st, wo on and rushees as vve coiuld and then vve started the bac.i-y rd volle;>ball season. Thus far its been as good as in ye. rs past, with all the Seniors barely seen anywhere but i.i the b.ac.- yard. Most afternoons, games are going on im pressing all th.o girls with ojr flabby but well-tanned bodies. John Diotz, Kijipor Wight, and Davo Whipple seem to be co.peting for the title of "HOOK", leaving mo£;t of our rushees in awe. I am surft."TfJE HOOK" would bo pr ;ud ol tlj'; fierce jungle csiigjetlti n, aad Clyde proud of the amonnt of beer consumod. Tiie weekend of Hay it-5 was' perhaps tho liveliest with the donation of a keg by Brother Bachus (engaged, finally) and with the arrival of 3 mothers (all drunn) far Hoth:r' 's Wectiend. Other activiti.:G included the "old men" rachus, diddle, and Coconut playing hoiasoshoes,, b ecause they could barely stand 'the fierceness of volleyball. ThOi 'O are stil,l many volleyball afternoons to drop by ariytimo to play a g-niie and h've a beer. E.el(fc>r ... Kvo accolaratod thoir- pii h i.i philanthropy p;et old Wewton bacit whero iio belon.'ja, xi\ Upailon Gi'^nia' j'lu; quarter was started oiT with a retiirn to jur firat I'l CO finisji, vdiich via coi-tainly, did. Wo -phy sittin on Our fii-eplace mantle, prujuented to livin ; room, t.!;o plionatlion to now have a h-.n lsoi. c; tj^oat a Ireek Council us secure mooLind, While still working on tlie phonatho,., pLmniuij was started on our tr: d- itional liastor Hunt lor tin; Head Start program. This year w . invited the Kappa Deltas to help us., and even though the rain and s ow forced us in doors, we had a great time with lots of eggs, caiid>, and food for all. A week and a half a.fter the iaster Egg Hunt wc- were back at it again, leading tho Greeks and all other campus organizations in Log n's kestivf'l of ■Spring Community cleanup. The brothers wore split into groups to cle.on dif ferent city parks. . Our efforts were rewarded by winning a ^noo prize offer ed by the Volunteers Vice-President at school. The iirize was based on pejfc-ent participation which happened to be over 80'/:), Hot to be put down, the.* following week we acted as timers for tioe bridgerland Special Olympics. and ruenc; s Lots of sun and a feeling of hel i)j.t..g these, mentally retarded children seemed to be the mood fo.r th' - afternoon. Our final project .of tin; year was to retuon to tho Presbyteri;.in Chucch to help landscape their grounds after our reiiuesLed dediolition session of a year a ;o. etc, but Blist.ers started to pup out on our h nvis after digj.ging. treeholes, that didn't stop us from rcturuin;; th. . following day to the Church's services. Social Service was high on our minds this ye r and we'll be looking hopefully to Ekklesia in August and see if we can .jot our friend, G up, .back to HSU! ! the Baker Fiji (hLMDCK This year tho Islander w/i" a gre-ut success. what helped it more than anyttiing was that the w.;ath. .r wOjS great the shole weekend, and that certain ly was a switch. For the first time in several ye.wrs ,v/e held the I'iVitaiional. Every brother involved enjoyed it very much, as was evidonc d by tho v.',oi-k put into costumes and how much everyone drank. once to give thorn a thrill. This year we We even ran built the huts in the back yard We had 8 huts built and got all tho straw free. through the SPE house and held the lual there. After a little drinkin'-'- and socializing tho volleyball court got a v/orkout it will never for-;,et as in maxiy games it was graduates vs. undergraduates, X obody really ,auch c. red who won. For the lual we had steaks, which we got instead of party favor;., but we all chipped ia some money and. time to have Islander T-shirts too. Saturday everything , , we j po.ckcd - up- and we. t up. th Joe Gardner itiake us soine canyo ., played ga,. es, got v/rockod, A few tradition.al things wei'o t k.ni care of, such as throwing _ engaged brothers into the river, thou/;h ovor;,, ono gdt carried aw/jv orj 1 threw a few extras xn. Boy, th t water is cold! i.o.at people came homo that nxght, but a few dio-hards stayed oven.ight and struggled home the next da' All in all it was a very good Islander, maybe tho best yet! ! ! and \r\nAnother year h.:',G paoGcd and U,'Gilon Si,7na has done it a^^ain. .. e'vo i;.-- pia.iVG j in .liitr Ar.;uralG, on to a t .'p ^osition scholastifeally, taken over IFC, surpassed all ot'nor prou;'S in the Phon-a-taou, pl.:cod iivst in Ap'rie Day coii-.petition, ovcell ci see'.ally, and worn ■ •'i tiroloasly on sovic'.v ^^^roject;; iiuarly overy v; -ok. .le co ntinue t-.) am/'oc; bh : oLhor ('.reo.vs, bla..- coii-nunity, the cvuiipUG, Field Secret-ries, and even ourselves. J'lveryoue finds it amazing that such a small group c-m c nt nually unified, organised, a., uu lliuGisstic. We've been asked by envious fratornitius bo so successful, strong . ' tiireo times )ur size ow v/e can shov/ such unity of purouse when they h-.ve trouble mustering sunport ai;ions their numerous i,iCiMbors for activities that see 100% Fiji participation. The secret is, of couri;c, no secret—it's .dROTHFRHOOD! We have it, v/e cher ish it, and work daily to increase and protect it. Every brother of iipsilon 3igi.;a could irobably give a different reason for our sucoss—our Brotherhood—but I have come up with three key reasons why I believe that wo have remained strong, though si..all, - while other fra ternities around us have lost as much a.s half of tlioir membership in the last few years. First, wo h;.sVc seen fr-.to^-nities chago fr'.)ni quality houses into "freak" houses in a frightoningly shoi-t period of time. Wo h ive deter ined that this -v/ill not happen to us—henco our strong policy toward dru :• use. I quote from our Upsilon Si pma j ledge Manual: "Th^j use, possesslo i, or distr- ibutulon of any type of illegal drug or narcotic will not be tolerated in Josilcjn S.igma. This stand is not a moral one or a medic.il one. It i-s sidoly a legal one and a practic 1 one. A look at frabernity chapters w'rlch "nave closed in tho painb few years ;.;ln')ws th.ib the root c: use in - nearly every in stance was the illegal use of narcotics by members. We wo'ild not be hyi.ocritical enough to suggest that tiiis policy covers brothers only while they arc in tin. house since our brotherhood does not observe ..-.uch a boundary. \Ve care too much about the futures of our chapter and our orobliers to see them put in jeopardy." Secondly, wo have adhered strictly to our Ritual, our !.0Gt precious inherit.nnce, at a time when other houses have chosen to abandon bhoirs. Ritual is the core of Phi Gamma Delta. form the lives of those willing to .accept it. that can not be achieved b,; .u.iy other device. Thirdly, our very size The it.s i.-,ossa,p/, in pr.uctice, co. . trans gives us strength. It gives us a co^i ..on bond If it is true that you got out of an organization in proportion to v/hat you put in our br(/bhers are in deed wealthy. With only a rare exception evury iaoidbor holds neb one or two but as many as throe major chairmaiiships and all are doing an amazing job without tliou.ght of ap)pl.auGe or sioaning under tho burden. hur .size allov.'s us to know e.wch otho.c person lly, to becojue orother;3 Ln a very re,-?.] sense. Al though we pl.nn to grow somewha.t in the future (a go.al of ^0-1^0 Actives h.vi.s been suggested) wo v/ill net allov; our clos-ness and unity to be sacr.i fined for simple numerical gain. It has been another good year .and I believe that I have iientioned three of the iuajor reasons, though they are by no means the only re;\,3onG, and I see no reason why v;e c.-.ui not contLnue to ansAze next year, ' n, Ota.. SiJ« »■