Chi Sigma Chapter The Colorado College Fn A Spring 1994 A Periodical for the Chi Sigma Alumni Sigma Begins'94 With New Alumni Relations Agenda It is during these times more than ever that alumni can play a key role in guidance and The Chi Sigma Chapter of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta is pleased to support of tfiis chapter. welcome back its imdergraduate and graduate news into circulation. It is a new year, with a new cabinet, and a newly appointed alumni relations committee. I am the chairperson of that committee and will be hope you enjoy this publication. Our chapter is proud of its brothers and we want you to working diligently throughout the next year know that we need your support! As alumni relations chair I would like to welcome you back to Pikes Peak FIJI. I to establish a firm foundation of alumni communication, recognition, and support. The Chi Sigma chapter is very anxious and excited to renew a strong graduate relationship. It is imperative that the alumni of this chapter play an active role in forming this strong relationship and for this we need your help. I must begin by asking you, our alumni brothers, for your opinions...we need your support in every way! It is our hope that we will publish graduate news as well as undergraduate news in upcoming issues, but first we must have your input. We would greatly appreciate any articles you would like to submit, as well as any constructive criticism that you might have. Please send all articles, suggestions, comments, etc. to the address and FAX# listed on page 7. The past year has been a trying time for FIJI as well as the entire Greek System at The Colorado College. Fraternally, c > /: A, / Joseph S. Carpenter'96 Alumni Relations House Manager Inside This Issue... President's Message p« 2 ♦ Jordan Bowl Award,««««««,p» 4 ♦ House Improvement Drive • Commimity Service * And Much More, p.4 p. 3 \r\nPage 2 Spring 1994 Pikes Peak FUI President's fmf Sir aSSRSS Message Many of the graduate brothers of the Chi Sigma chapter may be surprised to see this newsletter. Efforts to mail a publication have been made several times in the three years I have been in the house, however, beyond the first few articles about intramurals and social events, the newsletter becomes a forgotten idea. As a consequence, the Chi Sigma chapter has done little to keep in close contact with its graduate brothers, an omission that inevitably hurts the house. The annual homecoming barbecue caters to those brothers in the immediate area, as did the Norris Pig Dinner oflast fall. This newsletter strives to bring those brothers who have not seen the 'shoebox' on Uintah Street in recent memory, back to the Fraternity, and to encourage those graduate brothers who have been able to participate lately, to continue. To bring everyone up to speed (including a few actives), the house presently has 38 active members, 26 of whom live in the house. Fall rush jdelded a pledge class of ~| all the fraternity houses. Parties cost more due to the cost of cases versus kegs, and F.A.C.S in the quad are nonexistent. Most of the social life of the campus occurs at offcampus housing, much to the chagrin of Grifiiths-Blessing., I'm sure. However,the house is overcoming these stumbling blocks and still maintains a full schedule of events for brothers that focus on the house. Bands from Boulder and the surrounding areas regularly play in the basement, and Garter has been at the Breckenridge Hilton for the past two years thanks to the organization of Matt Moyer '94 and the behavior of the brothers. Black Diamond, usually in early April, is always a success and the pledge program continues to teach the meaning of membership in Fiji thanks to pledge ed's Jonathan Erwin '96 and Todd Sweet '94. All in all the Gam house is doing well in spite of the changes of the past few years. I hope this newsletter gamers the amount of graduate support I anticipate, and that brothers can assist in keeping this type of communication operating with all of the Chi Sigma Fijis. Fraternally, Jeffrey D. Bush '95 President 11, and spring rush added 3 more. We have 3 brothers abroad this semester; Jeff Freidman and John Anthony in Spain and Dick Heermance in Costa Rica. As far as the 'Winnebago with no wheels' goes, the house looks much the same. Report Jeff Frank's owl still graces the stairwell as does 'I'll have another. Waiter'in the basement. The 'wood' room is still wood and the President's room still has a sturdy bar. The chapter room is new and improved, with new paint, carpet and a trophy cabinet. The basement bar is longer yet due to Dave Forester's ('94) efforts. The Fiji mug,despite a few dents, still adorns the basement's east wall. Lunch at the house is still really nasty. There have been changes, however. The C02 system is gone and the keg fridge sits largely vacant. At the beginning of spring semester last year kegs became illegal in all of the fraternity houses, undoubtedly altering the face of evening entertainment at The financial status of Chi Sigma has been stable over the past year. All financial records have been computerized, which makes the transition between cabinets easier. Computerization also makes it easier for the treasurer to update brothers on their own personal status, as well as the financial status of the house. Collecting dues from the brothers is still one of the most challenging (continued on page 3) \r\n3 Strong Community Clothes Drive Helps Service Continues... Springs Homeless This has been quite an eventful year thus far for the Chi Sigma chapter, and our activity in philanthropic activities is no February has been a busy month for the philanthropic Greeks at C.C., already planning Greek Week philanthropy events for April. Last week, as a precursor to those events, the Thetas organized a clothes drive. With all of the fraternity and sorority houses participating in the 'scavenger hxmt', the exception. We continue to set the standard of community service within the Greek system, and on campus as well. This year house members are participating in an array of programs that benefit the Colorado Springs commimity. We have consistently volunteered with The American Cancer Society and The United States Olympic Committee. With our help these organizations are able to take on initiatives that they would not otherwise be able to. Last spring the chapter was awarded a stretch of Nevada Ave. and now is actively participating in the Adopt-A-Highway program. Through diligent effort, we have been able to clean up what was once an extremely unsightly road. Volunteer Action is another program that Fiji's consistently participate in. This program targets children in several local elementary schools that are in need of role models or just someone to spend some quality time with. In past years house participation has been outstanding, and this year we have teamed with the sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma and are solely responsible for the program with Jefferson Elementary School. Volunteer Action is a great way to give back to the community and help out those in need. More Phi Gam,Less Selfis a motto we all live by, and a motto the members of the Chi Sigma chapter take very seriously. We are confident that our efforts do indeed make a difference in our community. Fraternally, John Anthony'95 brothers visited local residences in the vicinity of the campus, collecting everything from blankets to shoes to apple juice. The winning house, still imdecided, wins a house dinner with the Thetas. The brothers and pledges in attendance all enjoyed themselves despite the occasional unfiiendly Springs resident. Pledge Jared Shein explains, "I only had one door slammed in my face. It was a man of about 50 and he didn't even let me finish my pitch! The woman next door to him was much nicer." By days' end the Theta house was overflowing with clothes and non-perishable food, and the hot cocoa flowed freely. Nice job. Philanthropy Chair Brandon Porter '96 for posting the highest attendance of any of the houses,fraternity or sorority!! Fraternally, Zach McFarland '95 Treasurer's Report Continued From Page 2 aspects of the treasurer's position. In order to make this challenge easier, the new cabinet has given brothers the option of paying their dues in one payment, or paying in four installments over the period of a semester. The house recently decided to reallocate the money paid to the house manager to the dishwasher and other brothers that have financial difficulties. Hopefully, the computerized records and payment plans will help Chi Sigma maintain financial stability. Fraternally, Bradley F. Fonts'96 Treasurer \r\nPage 4 Chi Sigma Wins Jordan Bowl Award at 145th Ekklesia The scholastic efforts of the Chi Sigma House Improvement Drive I Damages to the house this year mark the beginning of a major "House Improvement Drive". This summer the chapter room suffered flood damage. Extensive renovation of the brothers received recognition at the last chapter room including new walls, carpet, paint, Ekklesia. Awarded the Jordan Bowl for and other FIJI memorabilia is complete. In addition to the structural damages to the chapter room, most ritual items were lost. The Colorado College has refused to include any items in the insurance claim that are not "College Property". The ritual items and other chapter items do not fall into that category since they are owned by the house. It is our intention to replace these items as soon as money allows us to do so. We are also currently working on a posting the highest grade point average among the 110+ Fiji chapters, the chapter posted a 3.4 GPA. In addition to having an exceptional GPA,the award requires that the chapter have scholastic programs in operation, such as brother tutors and a house 'quiet' time. Peter Kent'94, a Chemistry major with the leading house GPA,said, "It's high time the house received an award for its efforts in the classroom. I'm confident we'll keep the bowl at least until I graduate." Although none of the brothers were able to attend the Ekklesia due to summer employment obligations. Field Secretary Tom Boetel presented the chapter with the award during his last visit. In addition to the bowl, Tom presented the chapter with a check for $1,000.00 which was promptly used to pay off a portion of our dues to Nationals. Tom also presented a $500.00 check earmarked for a department of Colorado College, which was presented to the Interfratemity Council, variety of other house improvements that are necessary simply because of the age of our building. The 1993-94 pledges are an integral part of this project. Involving the pledges in this program allows them to actively participate in the house euid at the same time take pride and respect in the work that they do. We are confident that this project will promote better care of the house in future years and thus continue a tradition of pledge house improvement activities for each new class. Although the college has refused to include many items in the insurance claim, they an organization that still receives little have agreed to help out with other structural and funding from the College. Cindy Pennington, sororities, expressed appreciation for the aesthetic improvements. Each year we are forced to work within a very limited college maintenance budget. This year. President Jeff donation which will likely go towards Greek Bush and House Manager Joe Carpenter had a Week philanthropic events. Fraternally, residential life and his maintenance staff. To the Greek Advisor for Fraternities and very comprehensive meeting with the director of Jeffrey D. Bush '95 help get the "ball rolling", the college has agreed President to match dollar for dollar any contributions that we receive from you, our alumni. We ask that if you can donate to the Chi Sigma House Improvement drive that you do so. This is a rare opportunity that the college has presented us and we would greatly appreciate your financial support!! Remember... all donations are tax deductible. If you would like to donate to the house improvement drive please address your donations to the address listed on page 7. If you have any questions concerning this project please Brother Kent embraces the Jordan Bowl as a do not hesitate to call me at(719)-389-7783. We symbol of the academic excellence and motivation of the Brothers'of Chi Sigma. greatly appreciate your support. Fraternally, Joseph S. Carpenter'96 House Manager \r\nPages Pikes Peak FIJI Pledging Continues with Strong Spring Rush Remember the days of pledging?!? Well, spring Rush was upon us last weekend and FIJI had a strong turnout of 10 rushees, up seven from last years spring rush numbers. Of those seven, three have decided to join eleven pledges of fall rush, bringing our pledge numbers to fourteen, up one from Extravaganza On Friday, December 3rd, Chi Sigma celebrated its annual winter formal, The Purple Garter Extravaganza, at the Breckenridge Hilton, in Breckenridge, Colorado. Thirty-three brothers, four pledges, and their dates were in attendance to make this year's Purple Garter the best in last year. This years pledge educator's are senior Todd Sweet of Washington and sophomore Jonathan Erwin of Dallas, Texas. The pledge program has been quite successful thus far. Pledges are involved in location in Colorado Springs to celebrate many house activities including house improvements, philanthropy, sports, and of course many brotherhood activities. Pledges have participated in highway cleanup, expectations to tackle the slopes of Breckenridge Saturday morning, many were induced instead to sleep for as long as possible due to the previous evening's recent memory. Chi Sigma takes advantage of its Purple Garter at a Colorado ski resort. Although many brothers had great painting the house basement, a food and extensive festivities. In the words of Brother clothes drive, CC soup kitchen, and many Chris Beauchamp ('95),"I don't think that I other charitable house, campus and community events. As always pledges attend house lunch each day at in an effort to could ski a football field this morning." The Hilton served a scrumptious strengthen their interest and knowledge of the house. With many off-campus seniors and jimiors this year, lunch has been an excellent opportunity for off-campus brothers to strengthen their bond with this year's pledge class. Many brothers have been impressed with the strong unity that this year's pledge class displays. Others are impressed but not surprised, as FIJI pledges are always a strong group of men and this year's class is no exception. dinner of chicken something-or-other which many attendees had the pleasure of enjojdng twice. Upon check out Saturday morning, Greg Hamilton ('94) observed,"Although I'm a vegetarian ,I had a great time anjway!" The traditional presentation of the garters was begun by President Collon Kennedy ('94), followed by Treasurer Dave Forester ('94) and the rest of the Senior class. Senior Fiji's were committed to having an especially good time as this will be their last Purple Garter as active members. Following the garter ceremony,the Gams gave a Fraternally, Jonathan Erwin '96 Pledge Educator stimning rendition of"Around Her Leg" to a captivated audience of enamored starry-eyed college beauties. After dinner, Garter guests re convened on the dance floor to enjoy an interesting mix of country & western and rap hip-hop. Seth Vannatta ('95) noted that, like Fiji Island last Spring,"My hopes were high, but Garter surpassed my wildest expectations." He joins the Junior and Sophomore class and the pledges in looking forward to next year's Purple Garter. Chi Sigma looks forward to another strong year with fourteen members composing the 1993-1994 Pledge Class. (Some members not pictured) Fraternally, Matthew Moyer '94 \r\nSpHftg 1994 Page 6 Greek Week at The Colorado College Phi Gamma Delta is planning to repeat its strong showing in this years Greek Week. The topic and charity of this year's Greek Week is "The Center for Prevention of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse". Last year the Greeks at The Colorado College helped to raise over $2000.00 for the Southern Colorado Aids Project. This year's Greek Week program will be similar to last year's in its activities such as Greek games and campus involvement lectures and associated fimctions. FIJI is hoping for a replay of last year's Greek Week banquet where we won the philanthropy award, scholarship award, Greek Week award, and our 1992 President Jon Smdam won "Greek Man of The Year" award. As expected. Phi Gamma Delta has and continues to be the strongest Greek organization at The Colorado College. Fraternally, Trevor Caldwell'95 IFC Treasurer FIJI and C.C. Excel in Sports Thus far into the 1993-94 academic year, the athletes of Phi Gamma Delta have had quite a remarkable run. The athletic teams representing the College are no exception to this trend of excellence in athletics. It was a banner year for the football team, having been undefeated until their last game, which they lost at home by a score of 23-21. The Men's soccer team enjoyed similar second consecutive year. They advanced in to the second round when they ran into a pumped up UCSD. They lost the game, but Craig and others had helped gain Colorado College much notoriety. The ice hockey team, fresh offlast year's controversial and disappointing season, has gotten off to a remarkable start. Senior Fiji David Tucker returns as an explosive threat on offense. With Tucker's stellar play the Tigers opened the season by sweeping Minnesota at the Broadmoor, a feat they hadn't accomplished since the 1950's. They remained imdefeated and atop the WCHA for more than a month. They had a rough outing at Wisconsin but righted themselves during the Thanksgiving hohday, pummelling North Dakota and sweeping the series. The Tigers got kicked back a couple spots in December and January, but once again in February they were competeting with the U of MN for the first spot in the WCHA. Another win against North Dakota February 25 and 26 bought C.C. a playoff round ticket. So watch in the coming weeks and cheer David Tucker and the boys to a Championship Victory in '94. As always, FIJI has outstanding participation in Intramurals. This past fall brought with it the ever intense flag football season, which FIJI always shows up for in force. Despite having a size disadvantage, we had plenty of skilled men to make up the difference. Our team dismantled their first two opponents by a combined score of 72-6. The margins of victory were easily attained, due to a stingy defense and a awesome air attack. The air attack was anchored by jimior John Anthony. Anthony in his second year as Quarter Back had plenty of speedy receivers in junior Spencer Leese, and seniors Brady Nathan and Collon Kennedy. However, without the pass protection of seniors Jon Surdam, Dave Kim,Josh Christian and Todd Sweet,the passing game would have been st3miied. Going into the playoffs, the team was on a all time high. FIJI cruised to the semi-final game where success. After starting slow, the men regained their footing and set their sights on they encountered their toughest opponent the NCAA playoffs. Fiji is represented on the team by junior Craig Lopez. With his and therefore had trouble finding the end zone, but the second half was a different steady play, Craig helped anchor the mid story. yet. The offense sputtered in the first half fielders that were the core of the team. The team made the NCAA playoffs for the {continued on page 7) \r\nPage 7 Spring 199^ Pikes Peak FIJI FIJI and C.C. Sports Continued from page 6 Down by 12, with two minutes remaining Anthony inserted the 2 minute offense. FIJI made a remarkable comeback, scoring the winning touchdown as time ran out. Unfortimately fatigue was a factor in the championship game, with FIJI being force to play back to back games. The score was 12-12 when, nearing the end of the first half Quarterback John Anthony went down with a serious knee injury. The team made vahant effort to come back but fell short in the end. Despite losing many seniors the house looks to have an extremely competitive team again next fall. Intramural soccer has been FIJI'S forte the past four years, coming out champions each of those years. However, this year was unique in that there were so many brothers interested in plajdng we had to create two teams. Both teams had an easy time of making it to the championship game. Intramural basketball is no different than soccer,in that FIJI has won the championship the past 3 regular seasons. We recently won the Pre-Christmas tournament in convincing fashion. The team is lead by seniors Jon Surdam,Josh Christian, Brady Nathan,Jeff Dale, and Dave Davies. Suppl3dng most of the offensive fire power are Juniors Zach McFarland and Jeb Binns. The team lives at the stripe and at this point in the season are averaging 58% from behind the line. Their shooting and tenacious defense are a force to be reckoned with. Sorry, we must not forget pledge Dan Surdam coming off of the bench for an occasional spark. Pledge Surdam will also be representing FIJI this Spring on the Colorado College Golf Team. Good Luck to all FIJFs in varsity and Intramural sports. Fraternally, Craig Lopez 95' John Anthony 95' Unfortimately, one FIJI team had to come up short and that was FIJI-HORROR,lead by Pikfis Pfiak FTJT captain Chris Beauchamp. The victor was THE FIJI HOUSE,lead by co-captains Matt Staff and Address Moyer and Tak Hayashi. Editor In Chief: Joseph S. Carpenter'96 Writers: Joseph S. Carpenter *96, Jeffrey D. Bush '95, Bradley Fouts '96, John Anthony'95, Matthew Moyer'94, and Craig Lopez'95, Trevor Caldwell *95, Jonathan Erwin '96, Zach McFarland '95 Address: Pikes Peak FIJI Chi Sigma Chapter Womer Box 1674 Colorado Springs, CO 80946 * -5^,»\ FAX#: Brother Josh Christian is ready for LAX! (719)'389-7783 \r\nDon't Forget to Mark Your Calendars: Homecoming Weekend and NORRIS PIG DINNER OCTOBER 14, 1994 Chi Sigma of Phi Gamma Delta Womer Box 1674 The Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO 80946 Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 105 Colorado Springs, CO L