yA word from the undergraduate p Greetings EA brothers, would like to start off by congratulating our seven newly initiated brat! decisions of their lives by joining our fraternity: Farid Iskandar, Nolan Ke chapter as six of them are committee chairman adding their own ideas goals, rather than the chairman being instructed as to what to accomp! ‘ostering of future leaders. Some of these examples include the expansi arship, the initiation of a strategic marketing campaign to increase our Scholarship Committee has also acquired professional academic resout Pledge Education Committee has created a new pledge manual to inclu segregation. Jur other focus was to improve our campus presence by increased vo rientation ta Metal Heads on Campus. With this in mind, we are headin in recent memory. Stay tuned for our summer and fall recruitment eve Chelen, Eric Hermanns and Colten Yamagishi. These fine gentlemen have events. This has helped our members grow as leaders in the community and spread the Fiji influence to many more people. As of now, over half of our chapter is invalved in other student groups ranging from Students’ Council to 2008 Summer Issue Inside this issue: EA Cup FA Cup cont. resident Executive Director visit 4 AWord fram the EAFS 4 Grad spotlights 5 hi ers for making one of the mast important Beat salient ennedy, Pat Brawn, Harry Chandler, Dustin already contributed immensely to our and energy to each portfolio. One major Announcements Pig Dinner ‘ocus of the chapter this year was to involve as many members into the planning and implantation of committee ish by cabinet. This has created a sense of responsibility and accountability for each committee and their members resulting with exciting new ideas and the ion of our Johnathan Doody Memorial Schol- web presence and professionalism. The irces to help our members whereas the fe pledges in more chapter events and avoid Dates to remember: © 39th Norris Pig Dinner— Saturday, Uctober 2éth, 2008 © Brunch— Sunday, October 25th, 2008 lunteerism and involvement in University © Grad Pool Might Friday, Si 25th, 2008 ig into our mast important recruitment year nts, and email me if you want to become jan Clarke ‘A President 08 more involved this year as a graduate brother! See you all at our 33" Pig Dinner, \r\npEA Cup The hockey game this year was a fierce competition. Finally, the undergrads had some steady goaltending, however, we were still missing a few bodies. The game remained close the entire way and the 1) morale in the locker raom was high regardless of how we were playing. All the undergrads were having a blast and we shared some laughs in the locker room and on the bench. Unfortunately, the out- come was not favorable ta us, but it came down to the last couple of seconds in the third period with a last minute rush to make it exciting. Most of us had begun to run out of gas, so we may need ta introduce a series of training exercises for next year. As usual, we stressed playing time over ability. Everyone that participated had a smile on their face at the end and lot of the guys that came out want to get better at playing, which can give us a goal for next year. All the undergrads would like to thank those brothers, parents, girlfriends, and friends that came out to support us. After all, we are fighting for the pride of Epsilon Alpha. And grads beware... we have a few rushes that have played decent hockey in the past for next year. Perge! The North Star Page 2 \r\n‘ Executive Director Visit On Friday, February 6" the Friday night dinner which saw Executive Director of Phi the attendance of the entire Gamma Delta, Bill Martin, visited active chapter. The meal was our chapter. He was given a excellent, and while the Execu- tour of campus followed by a tive Director outclassed us in A word from the EAFS Hello Brothers, Here is a quick update as to the status of our graduate chapter. We have been working hard on updating the database while establishing our current events by strengthening attendance. | am happy to report that all four of our events; the Norris Pig Din- ner, Exile’s Dinner, the EA Cup hockey game, and Founder's Day Brunch have all seen an increased average attendance of 8% over the past year. | want to thank those brothers and their families who attended in past year, as well as, the undergraduates who assisted in contacting the brothers to inform them of the events and updat- ing their information. Yet, by far the method that was most suc- cessful in bringing out brothers was a phone call or email froma pledge brother or a close brother who they. keep in touch through- out the year. | bring this up because in 2010, it will be our 40" Nor- ris Pig Dinner. We hope to have ‘an overwhelming number of broth- ers at that event and the best way ta get them to attend the 40" is to show them a great time at this year's 89" Pig Dinner, The North Star his flawless rendition of Doxology, he remained thor- oughly impressed with our chapter — the entire visit. — The 2009 Cabinet met with Brother Martin to discuss their plans for the up- coming year and to ‘touch- base’ with IHO. Cabinet was very grateful for this op- portunity to bounce ideas off such a high-ranking Flu. -Simon Yackulic What we hope to accomplish is a tree list of phone captains; a represen- tative from each pledge class who would contact his pledge brothers about upcoming events. And the goal is to have this in place in time to ensure cur 40" Pig Dinner is a success. If you are already phoning your brothers to come out to events, or are interested in becoming a phone captain, please contact myself (cjtang@gmail.com ) or Nolan (nkennedy@ualberta.ca or cell: 780-938-6990). Finally brothers, mark your calendars as October 24, 2009 and October 28, 2010 will be the dates for the 39" and 40" Frank Norris Pig dinners. Fraternally, Chris Tang President Epsilon Alpha Fiji Society Perge! \r\nSpotlights A brief look at some of our most recent gradu- ales... Adam Bowes Faculty/Degree: Arts, Major in His- tory Current plans for the year: Attending Favorite Flul moment: “Getting into an awful disagreement with a brother, finding common ground, and drinking and laughing about it with him an hour later. Also, fist of justice. ” Brett Cooper Faculty/Degree: Electrical Engineer- ing Current plans for the year: Currently living in Edmonton and is working for PCL Intracon as an Electrical Project Coordinator. Favorite Flul moment: A road trip to Dallas, Texas with 8 brothers where they visited 5 chapters and drove 7600km in 9 days. The North Star Dalhousie in Halifax. Gab doshee- Arnal Faculty/Degree: Major in Science Politique (political science) and a minor in Japanese Current plans for the year: He is currently working as a re- search assistant for a professor at the University of Alberta where he is working at offering services in both official languages across Canada. In the fall, Gab will be studying law at McGill University. Favorite Flu! moment: “Without a doubt, my fa- vorite moment has to be the day of the curry chal- lenge. | had, along with a few other brothers, made a huge pot of Indian curry for supper, After the mnd was done, all that was left in the pot was a large amount of onions and tomatoes swimming in at least a couple of liters of sauce. Naturally, the only logical thing to do was to have a chugging competition between brothers with the remaining sauce. After all was said and done, the kitchen was full of shirtless fijis, one of whom became tempo- rarily. blinded from having drank three full glasses... Classic house shenanigans!” \r\n, Spotlights continued... Tony Pham Faculty/Degree: Business Current plans for the year: His plans include “work, CASB, work, work, CASB, sleep”. Favorite Flul moment: “Pranking Dave and Coo- per, staying up and making Fiji-gingerbread house and the cardboard tube fight’. Ben Sparrow Faculty/Degree: Engineering Current plans for the year: Snow- boarding, working and traveling. Favorite Flu! moment: Favorite moments include roof beers, Camp Horseshoe and running from 5-0 with a certain brother. The North Star Kevin Student Faculty/Degree: Business, major in accounting Current plans for the year: start CASB Favorite FlJl moment: ‘Too many great Fiji mo- ments to have just one favorite. Always having a group of quys to get up to something with was fun.” \r\n Announcements On August 28rd, 2008, brother Maciej Bukezynski married his wife Aminah in the St. Josesph’s College Chapel at the Univer- sity of Alberta. Several Epsilon Alpha Fijis were in attendance. On May 16, 2009, brother Matt Staric mar- ried Jacquie Spilak. a Delta Gamma. They were married at St John Bosco Catholic Church located here in Edmonton. Many brothers were in attendance. Adam Foster was the groomsman, Chris Tang was the master of ceremonies, and Mike Lee was the DJ. The other brothers who were in attendance included Rae Landry. Brett Cooper, Ryan Nickel, Tony Pham, Corey Reynolds, Bryce Mckinnon, Matt Sparrow. Nick Shewchuck, Greg Hladyshevsky, JP Chibuk, Stu Foster, Andrew Loden, Dan Booth, and Tristan Grant. On August 3ist 2008, brother Ben Dickson married Sherri Fedorak here in Edmonton. Most of pledge class © (05 was in attendance with two of Ben's pledge brothers in his bridal party. The North Star Page 6 \r\n Aor Official publication of the Epsilon Alpha Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta Comments? Suggestions? Good article idea for the next issue? RSVP to an event? Contact: Nolan Kennedy, Graduate Relations Chair Phone: 780-938-6990 E-mail: nkennedy@ualberta.ca 39th Norris Pig Dinner Mark you calendars! This year’s 39th Norris Pig Dinner will be held on Saturday, October 24th 2009. It will be held at the Edmonton Petroleum Club which is located at III10 108 Street NW. Cocktails at pm and Dinner 7pm. There will be an Annual General Meeting for Housing Corp and EAFS earlier that day at pm at the same loca- tion. Also mark your calendars on October 23, 2010. This will be our 40th Norris Pig Din- ner and we aim to have an amazing turnout for this milestone event! Upcoming Dates: e Fig Dinner— Saturday, October 24th, 2009 e Brunch— Sunday, October 25th, 2009 Grad Pool Night— Friday, September 2ath, 2009 Not For College Days Alone