The Phi Kappa chapter of Phi Gamma Delta Presents... ADM ISSI O RAM N ONE 6 : 40 S FIJI For .S t Co llins hields , CO VO 805 THI LUME 21 RTY TW O ISSU E ONE RAM FIJI September 16, 2012 Vol. 32 Issue 1 www.csufiji.org RamFiji, 640 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80521 | Phi Kappa Chapter - Phi Gamma Delta | www.csufiji.org \r\nRAM FIJI! PAGE 2 FIJI theme American flag TABLE OF CONTENTS President’s Address 3 Fiji House Renovations 4 Recruitment Update 5 Ekklesia Update 6 Ekklesia Awards 7 Recent Graduate Update 8 Community Service Update 9 Homecoming Information 11 Save The Date 12 In this packed newsletter, find out what the Phi Kappa chapter of Phi Gamma Delta has been up to recently! RamFiji, 640 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80521 | Phi Kappa Chapter - Phi Gamma Delta | www.csufiji.org \r\nRAM FIJI! PAGE 3 Brothers studying together in the library at study hours The Phi Kappa Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta is undergoing a period of change during the Fall 2012 semester. We are implementing a culture change to emphasize on scholarship more than we ever have before. We revised our scholarship plan, are creating a judicial board program to enforce the scholarship plan, and hosting study sessions and checking each brother’s grades periodically. We are confident that keeping this mentality will bring us to an era of great scholarship. continuing with recruitment and hope to have 12 to 15 pledged brothers by the end of the September, which will be the biggest pledge class in 2 years. President’s Address State of the Chapter Fall 2012 Zane Danielson President We are also hitting recruitment hard and evaluating each potential new member’s grades before offering them a bid to become a pledged brother. On September 4th, we extended 8 bids to some young gentlemen that would all be great additions to our chapter. We are RamFiji, 640 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80521 | Phi Kappa Chapter - Phi Gamma Delta | www.csufiji.org \r\nRAM FIJI! PAGE Outside of the Phi Kappa FIJI house House Rennovations The undergraduate brothers have been hard at work on the chapter house this summer. We have remodeled the kitchen, including new tile countertops, refinished cabinets and a new hardwood floor. We have also purchased new living room furniture and cleaned the whole house. The improvements have already made a difference in attracting new members, and will hopefully continue to do so throughout the semester. We look forward to seeing you homecoming weekend, and please, stop in and see the new house. Currently we are also in the process of building new dinning room tables. One last addition to the house is that last semesters pledge class (Xi) donated a charcoal smoker with a stainless steel “FIJI” welded along the top. With an New flooring, cabinets, and counters attempt to increase Fiji's presence on campus we have worked to raise a 35' flag pole with our letters flying high on a 6'X10' flag at every tailgate. It is the largest flag flying at any tailgate. As of this past spring former president Greg Mikulecky donated a self made ceramic waterfall that features our chapter (Phi Kappa) as well a Gamma the white owl, this piece currently sits in front of our chapter room. FIJI House Renovations RamFiji, 640 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80521 | Phi Kappa Chapter - Phi Gamma Delta | www.csufiji.org 4 \r\nRAM FIJI! PAGE 5 Brothers and PNMs at a broomball recruitment event Phi Gamma Delta Recruitment Thanks to help from undergraduate brother AJ Williams, we were able to have a summer recruitment event at his house in Denver as a way to attract potential new members to come out and meet the brothers in an environment outside of Fort Collins. We gave out 8 bids for the Fall 2012 Semester, but that isn't stopping us from doing 365 recruiting. One of our biggest recruiting tools came from the Graduate Brothers, who helped purchase a tent and a tailgate spot for football games that we are able to use as a massive recruiting tool. We plan to hold a second rush during the semester, so if you know any college men that would a great Phi Kappa FIJI, please contact Brian Lenz at 609-618-9090. Current Recruitment Update RamFiji, 640 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80521 | Phi Kappa Chapter - Phi Gamma Delta | www.csufiji.org \r\nRAM FIJI! PAGE Brothers at Ekklesia Ekklesia Update Four brothers, Zane Danielson, Brian Lenz, Greg Mikulecky, and Pledged Brother Jeff Mikulecky, from the Phi Kappa chapter of Phi Gamma Delta attended the 164th Ekklesia in New Orleans, Louisiana. The business of the fraternity was well thought out and conducted, many friends were made, and the memories made will never die. While two brothers, Greg and Jeff, flew to New Orleans, Zane and Brian made the trek down in two days, 10 hours each day. They all arrived on the evening of the 1st to ensure that we were able to do some site seeing before the events of Ekklesia started. They explored Bourbon Street, ate at the famous Acme Oyster House, and visited New Orleans’ oldest bar, Pat O’Briens. business of the fraternity began bright and early on Friday morning at 9am. Friday evening, the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta put on a special event. We had a Mardi Gras themed parade from our hotel, down Bourbon Street and back. Business resumed on Saturday morning and lasted through the afternoon. On Saturday afternoon, a Phi Kappa Graduate Brother, Scott Mikulecky (1982) was inducted as the Archon President for the next two years. Saturday night was the closing banquet with keynote speaker Morgan Spurlock, who directed Supersize Me, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden, and many other movies. Morgan was awarded the Distinguished FIJI Award for his outstanding career and continued involvement with the fraternity. 164th Ekklesia New Orleans August 2-5, 2012 Thursday night consisted of a banquet and welcomes and introductions. The RamFiji, 640 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80521 | Phi Kappa Chapter - Phi Gamma Delta | www.csufiji.org 6 \r\nRAM FIJI! Ekklesia Awards At the 164th Phi Gamma Delta Eklessia in New Orleans, the Phi Kappa chapter was lucky enough to be presented with multiple awards. The chapter has for the 4th straight year been presented with a John Templeton McCarty Chapter Profieceny Award. This award is handed out annually to all chapters which adheres to the Phi Gamma Delta laws and traditions, remain in favorable standing within their Universities, and exemplify the values of all Phi Gamma Delta’s. In addition to this award, Our chapter is happy to announce Paul Lind (Purdue ’66), as a recipient of the Coulter Cup. This award is handed out for outstanding service to a undergraduate chapter from a graduate brother other than the Purple Legionnaire. Paul Lind in his few years has been a very PAGE beneficial graduate brother for the Phi Kappa chapter. Without him many of our recruitment events would not have been possible, and The Phi Kappa chapter would like to thank him for all of his dedication, input, and hard work he had provided to our chapter. 164th Ekklesia Awards Finally, Mr. Robert Unfug was awarded the Durrance Award, for the 3rd straight year! The Durrance Award is awarded annually to the most outstanding Purple Legionnaire within the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. Since the re-colonization of the Phi Kappa chapter, Mr. Unfug and remained an integral part of the fraternity with his advisement and support. Without his help the chapter would not be where it is today. We Congratulate Mr. Unfug for such a monumental achievement and thank him for his continued service. RamFiji, 640 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80521 | Phi Kappa Chapter - Phi Gamma Delta | www.csufiji.org 7 \r\nRAM FIJI! PAGE Cover of The Fence Post Recent Graduate Brother Update On June 4th, 2012 the Fence Post, a respectable local newspaper that covers several topics including agriculture featured Phi Kappa Fijis very own Josh Cleland. After graduating Colorado State in the spring of 2010, Josh Cleland left with a degree in animal science and a passion to reestablish the Cleland family dairy. After a struggle with milk prices and trying to keep the dairy stable, the Cleland Dairy in Erie Colorado, Josh (current Herd Manager) returned home to help in any way he could. Josh says “Dairy is in my blood, as I was raised on one my entire life. That being said, it's been the only place that I have had a job. I remember that my dad and grandpa started paying me in loose change to water calves, pick up trash, bed calves, ect., when I was only about 8-years-old. I always admired the way I was raised and how I learned responsibility, the value of hard work at a very young age.” The Cleland dairy now milks 400 cows and has 1,000 cows including bulls, dry cows and replacement heifers as well as the milkers. In the past it was believed that the capacity of the dairy was only around 600 cows total, however, today the dairy far exceeds those expectations. Josh continues to say, "I would say that the biggest challenge is keeping up with the milking herd which incorporates everything from calving, choosing the right cows to be in our high/low milking pens, keeping feet quality at their best, maintaining healthy cows and feeding the best quality feeds and keeping the cows comfortable. Feed quality is extremely important to me. When the cow is milking, she must meet all her body maintenance requirements before her body will allow her to get pregnant." For more information and to read the article in its entirety follow the Fence Posts link at. http://www.thefencepost.com/article/ Recent Graduate Brother Update Josh Cleland RamFiji, 640 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80521 | Phi Kappa Chapter - Phi Gamma Delta | www.csufiji.org 8 \r\nRAM FIJI! PAGE Brothers at MArch of Dimes Community Service Update The Phi Kappa chapter of Phi Gamma Delta has always made sure to be an active member in our community and to make our school the best that it can possibly be. Already, our fraternity has three different community service events that we will be involved in. We are hoping to make as big of a difference in these events as we did with the others last semester. The first event that we will be participating in will be helping out with Ram Ride. Ram Ride is the largest saferide program in the country and has given over 125,000 students rides home without a single incident. We also volunteered with this same service last semester where we helped out as drivers, navigators, and dispatchers. Our next volunteer opportunity is only a few days after Ram Ride where we will be helping the Larimer Animal-People Partnership run its annual Doggie Olympics. This great event is held in order to help raise funds to train therapy dogs who in turn visit hospitals, assisted living homes, and hospices, so as to raise the spirits of those residing there. We will also be the very first fraternity to ever help with the event, so we are very excited to show them our FIJI spirit! Fiji Helping The Community The next event that we have planned (though not our last of the semester) will be Cans Around the Oval. This event is a CSU tradition since 1986 and the largest can food drive in Larimer county. Here we will help package thousands of collected food cans in order to be distributed to the Food Bank of Larimer County. Last year over 60,000 cans were donated which just makes us even more prepared to collect even more! However, events like these are nothing RamFiji, 640 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80521 | Phi Kappa Chapter - Phi Gamma Delta | www.csufiji.org 9 \r\nRAM FIJI! Brothers participating in RamRide with Colorado State University Dimes and CSUnity. For March of Dimes, we helped set up and run a 3k walk to raise money for research into SIDs. CSUnity was another significant CSU tradition where nearly 2000 volunteers were spread out over the Fort Collins and Loveland area to assist in 125 different community service event. As for FIJI, we were involved in helping to clean up 2 miles of the banks of a creek in Loveland. Needless to say, we are planning to make this semester’s events just as successful as the last ones. PAGE 10 March of Dimes Fiji Helping The Community RamFiji, 640 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80521 | Phi Kappa Chapter - Phi Gamma Delta | www.csufiji.org \r\nRAM FIJI! Brothers participating in RamRide with Colorado State University PAGE 11 March of Dimes Homecoming 2012 Homecoming 2012 This year, the brother of the Phi Kappa chapter of Phi Gamma Delta will be participating in homecoming with the gentlemen of Pi Kappa Phi, and the ladies of Pi Beta Phi. This year, our theme is based off of the olympics and each team will have a Greek God that they will represent. During past homecoming years, we have held events for our graduate brothers and families. This year will be no different! Schedule of Events On Saturday, October 6, FIJI will be hosting a brunch at the FIJI house from 10:00am - 12:00pm. Afterwards, you will then have the option to either participate in a brewery tour, game day, or free time from 12:30pm - 1:30pm. We will then have a tailgate from 2:00pm - 5:00pm. Kickoff begins at 5:00pm for the Colorado State University vs. Fresno State homecoming game. RamFiji, 640 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80521 | Phi Kappa Chapter - Phi Gamma Delta | www.csufiji.org \r\nRAM FIJI! It’s coming...... April 13, 2013 Norris Pig Dinner PAGE inspirational and motivational speech that resonated with the entire room. Thanks to the graduate brothers who attended and donated, we were able to secure a permanent tailgate spot as well as a tent for every home football game. To the brothers who were unable to attend the 2012 Norris Pig Dinner, we hope to see you at the next one. 12 Save the date now! This year, the Phi Kappa chapter of Phi Gamma Delta will hold our annual Norris Pig Dinner on April 13th, 2013! Save The Date! At the 2012 Norris Pig Dinner, brothers gathered at the Fort Collins Country Club to once again celebrate and reconnect with graduate brothers. We were honored to host our special guest speaker Sonny Lubick, who gave a very RamFiji, 640 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80521 | Phi Kappa Chapter - Phi Gamma Delta | www.csufiji.org \r\nRAM FIJI! PAGE 13 “A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.” - MATTHEW C. FOX (COLUMBIA, 1989) Perge! RamFiji, 640 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80521 | Phi Kappa Chapter - Phi Gamma Delta | www.csufiji.org