Fijiuga KA dUKura OF PHI GAMMA DELTA VOL. 15, No. 2 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA Homecoming 1980 NOVEMBER 1980 THE PRESIDENT'S GAVEL Scott Kenney and Coyet Lowery show off trophies. This year the Fiji's carried on our fine Homecoming tradition by bringing home two major honors. For the second year in a row, we won first place in the float compe tition. Leading the Fraternity's generous overall support and the Alpha Chi Omega's, were brothers Coyet Lowery, Steve Hardy and Dan Cowart. Enough thanks can't be given for the long (and late) hours put into the float by these men. Our good showing in the float competition lead to a first place tie for overall honors. This honor was acquired by FIJI effort in all cate gories and events. Some of them are: the Bulldog Bazaar, where Brother Paul (Bam-Bam) Putney told many fortunes; the Bulldog Stampede, a 6.2 mile road race where Brother Steve Justice made a fine showing; the Miss Homecoming competition — our Sweetheart Sue Knight was our entry; the Homecoming Skit, Jim Braden The Kappa Deuteron Chapter has just completed one of its most suc where Brother Jimmy Adams por cessful trayed the "sweetest' Bear Bryant Meadows and Mark Johnston led as ever seen and several others partici pated. The whole chapter deserves the Chapter pledged twenty-five fine men. This Fdl Pledge Class, rush efforts ■ ever. Chris a round of clicks for winning our who will be known as the Lambda division. It wouldn't be fair to forget to recognize the efforts of our Deuterons, are fired up and deter mined to contribute greatly to our Chapter. Their pledge trainers, neighbors, the Alpha Chi's. Headed by Jill Wright, they contributed more than their share of help. Judg ing by a recent upsurge in tne num equally excited, and we are expect ing great things from them. This year's 1980 Homecoming ber of FIJI - Alpha Chi dates, the brothers are finding ways of thank ing them,somehow or other. Todd Barnes and Rick Hawkins, are continued to page 2 \r\nFIJIUGA PAGE 2 SPORTS THE PRESIDENT'S NOVEMBER 1980 a column by Rick Cromartle and Co. As I was researching material for was a great success. We placed first in the float competition as well as this article, I began to really appre first in overall points in our divi sion. We hope that those who were sonalities that make up our Frater nity. It is these diverse personalities in attendance enjoyed the fellow ship and the food at the house. We that have made and will continue to would also like to thank Keith Mason for the fine job he did" on cess. Because of this diversity we have men interested in each sport, this event. and they take pride in the success When this Cabinet first took ciate the diverse and interesting per make our fraternity athletics a suc of the particular sport in which oflbce, the Chapter was on some what shaky ground. The undergrad they are involved. uate debt to the Chapter was over $6,000, and we had just suffered lighted by the success of our Racquetball team. The team members the loss of two brothers and one are Steve Poole, Reggie Davis, Roy pledge as the result of the 1980 Pig Dinner entertainment. I am now happy to report that under the leadership of Treasurer Larry Brown, the undergraduate debt is almost zero. Both the brothers and the pledges have taken their finan cial obligation to this Chapter very seriously, and they have done a great job. Also, after speaking with graduate observers of tne Chapter, I feel it is their consensus that Chapter tone is the best it has been in quite some time. Financially speaking, there are still many graduates who owe the Chapter money. This debt comes to over $2,000 with individual bills ranging from $50 to $15. To my knowledge Larry has contacted every Graduate Brother with an outstanding bill, and we hope the Sports this fall have been high Reeves, Jimmy Woods, and Spencer Knap. Each of these players is in the quarterfinals of his respective bracket, and the fraternity is look ing for one of these players to bring home the championship. I talked to Steve "Hick" Poole and Reggie "Swinging" Davis about our RacquetbaU team and about the sport in general. Steve said that he be lieved that racquetball was the fast est growing sport in America, sec ond only to capture-the-flag. When asked about tne team he said, "There are several skilled players on the team, and they are looking strong right now." Reggie feels that the success of the team can be di The Volleyball team has also been successful this fall. They are sporting a 2-1 record with wins over during the next home football game. The undergrads always enjoy swapping stories with the Grads and hearing about our heritage first team, Neal "Diapers" Hopper, and hand. in our conversation, I asked him the Alpha Tau Omegas and the Pikes. I talked to the coach of the about the future of volleyball in this country. He says that it is ba sically "up in the air, up and down, hit a miss type thing." He feels Ae Volleyball team can beat any other /Jim Braden Singh, and Pledge Frank Hanna. I talked to Bill Hall about the tennis team and he said that "the recruitment of international tennis star. Rocky "Hadji" Singh, will lead us to victory." I asked Rocky "Kung-Fu" Singh what he thought the prospects were for the tennis team, and he told me they were go ing to "take them to the cleaners. The Football team is sporting a 1-3 record. This lack of success has not daunted our quarterback and star, Todd Barnes, who says "we will win it all." Steve "Hick Poole has quit the team in order to devote all of his time to Racquetball. He says he "can't cut it anymore." Bulldog Pushups is coming soon, so I decided to talk to Keith "Check-my-Pecs" Mason. Keith told me that he expects to bring home the gold in America's number one spectator sport. A few" of the upcoming sports this winter are soccer, basketball, their feelings were. next year. Perge' players remaining in competition. They are Bill Hall, Pledge Rocky and he feels that Mark Johnston is have received money from several a Knapburg and he says "we will nose them out of the championship." The Fraternity has three tennis spoke with a representative from the rising star of the team and will be able to contribute a great deal Eratemally, coaching and impartial selection process. I also talked to Spencer rectly attributed to the coach, Steve Howard, whose "organiza tional powers are unbelievable," Graduates will take it upon them selves to fulfill this obligation. We of them and hope for the rest soon. Be sure and come by the house can be directly attributed to his team, and the success of the team badminton, and weightlifting. I each of these sports to see what I talked first with Rocky "Pele" Singh, the highly recruited inter national soccer star, and he told me that "we'll win it all." I talked to continued to page 3 Fijiuga Matt Fredrick, Editor Scott Kenney Todd Barnes Steve Hardy Keith Mason \r\nFIJIUGA PAGE 3 NOVEMBER 1980 Kappa Deuteron Pledges 25 31 I The Lamda Deuteron pledges SPORTS continued Larry Brown next, and he told me the Basketball team is "going to win it all." Jim Braden says the Badmin ton team will "win it all this year," and Buddy Hendrick says that the weightlifting team "will win it all this year, if they can lift me." I also talked to Kirk Jelinek, past Athletic Chairman, about the pres Kappa Deuteron welcomed 25 new pledges into its midst this fail; tation. The graduation of a large thanks to an outstanding rush pro gram. As you all know,"pledges are the Chapter much "younger" than it has been in many years. Thus, the pledges must be called on to accept the lowest form of life on earth." However, as pledges go, this is a pretty sharp group. Phi Gamma Delta prides itself on pledging men of diverse backgrounds and inter ests, and this pledge class is no ex ception. It is even fortunate enough to be seasoned with several upperclassmen who will hopefully pro vide leadership and guidance within the pledge class. Since Kappa Deuteron is in somewhat of a transition period, the Brothers are looking to these pledges with a great deal of expec number of brothers last year left responsibilities within the Frater nity, as well as on campus. Many of these men are active on campus al ready and the others are following suit, keeping alive the tradition oif Fiji's being campus leaders. It is always exciting to witness and experience the enUiusiasm and freshness that pledges bring with them into the Chapter. They are the lifeblood and the future of the Fraternity, and Kappa Deuteron has reason to be very proud. ent sports situation. He pys, "Ae key to intramural success is winning and I feel the only way to do this is to score more points than the other team. To get more points we must have a well-disciphned team and open-minded coaches that will al low me to play." He also feels that the disappearance of the Hoiwaks has led to the deterioration of our entire athletic organization due to the fact that the Honyaks have seeped into our regular teams and lowered dieir quality. I asked our sports star Rocky "Bani-Sadir" Sin^ about the pres ent world situation, and all he said was "we'll never release them." Mickey "Mouse" Spillane still wants everyone to turn in their teacher evaluation forms. \r\nFIJIUGA PAGE 4 NOVEMBER 1980 1980 Leukemia Goal Set At $2500 The 1980 Leukemia drive is off to a good start this year. Brothers Grant Smith, Steve Howard, and Chris Meadows and pledge Ed J ack- son participated in the IPG golf tournament and held the FIJI ban ner high while posting scores of 79 and 80. All the participants had a freat time as the Stroh's distributor ere in Athens provided plenty of beverage and a banquet dinner after the day on the course. In the fu ture, we hope to include some of our grad brothers in the FIJI fours