The men were given useful ideas and tips on how to successfully run fraternity operations. The group continued to grow to more than 30 members and in February 2014, Carter Kilmann, Nathan Sairam and Sam McCallum attended the Mid-Year Leadership Conference at North Carolina State University to learn more about what it meant to be a part of Theta Chi Fraternity. We understand that this is a big under-taking and we are very willing and capable in getting the colony going. I believe that by us joining the brotherhood and rallying under the rich tradition of Theta Chi we will be able to really make a difference on the campus. I have personally researched Theta Chi and its rich history. We believe by starting Theta Chi we will be willing to mold the chapter into something that will embody the best of Greek life at the University. We all really like Greek life but we want something different than is currently offered here at the University. We are looking for something more out of out of our college experience. Director for Recruitment and Expansion, JD Ford, about starting the process for becoming a colony. South Carolina student Austin Stevens contacted Theta Chi’s then-Sr. Digging deeper, the friends also discovered that Theta Chi stood for the things they were looking for – a fraternity that celebrated a diverse brotherhood, cared about academics and the community. After some research they learned that Theta Chi was one of the largest fraternities in the country and had never had a chapter at their campus. CAPTION: Campus police officer Bruce Robions and Jeff Press, Phi Kappa Sigma chapter president, watch Mark Dean make his move - and the chapter's first in 43 years.A group of friends at the University of South Carolina decided that they wanted to start a fraternity. Bagwell said that Phi Kappa Sigma could return, but Fraser said he can't shake the feeling that this is the end of an era. He said guards are posted at the house because $75,000 in damage was caused by a fraternity that was asked to leave Fraternity Row in 1988. The university is providing relocation assistance, Bagwell said. University officials said they wanted to avoid disrupting fraternity members taking summer session final exams and they timed the announcement to coincide with the break between terms. People would have had five weeks to make accommodations that would have been fair instead of making us panic into leases."Īlan Preston, national vice president of Phi Kappa Sigma, declined to comment. "As crowded as the university is this year, it's really hard for the older guys who can't live on campus," Press said. The fraternity brothers also felt that the university and national organization could have given them more time to find housing. I would have thought we meant something to our national." "I would think to close a chapter that has been here 96 years, one of the executives could have come down. "They sent down messengers from the national who handed us a packet of papers," said Press, who was still looking for a place to rent last night. Fraser and Jeff Press, the chapter's president, said the treatment by their own national organization has been the most difficult thing to accept. But the issue became moot on July 23 when the fraternity's national leaders in Pennsylvania revoked Phi Kappa Sigma's College Park charter, said Drury Bagwell, assistant vice president of the university.īut because of a secret agreement between the college and the fraternity's headquarters, no one told the local members until Sunday. The university had hoped to resolve the problems with its oldest fraternity this fall. Everyone was given just six days' notice to vacate and find new housing, and school starts on Tuesday." "I can't totally disagree with the actions, but my point is the way they went about it. Fraser, an Annapolis resident who heads the chapter's alumni corporation. "They have done some things wrong," said Keith T. today and then posted armed campus police officers there round-the-clock to ensure they left on time and without trashing the place. Over the winter, their pledges stole a flag from a local golf course.īut the chapter's 30 shell-shocked members said they didn't deserve this: The university ordered them on Sunday to vacate 5 Fraternity Row, the chapter's home of 43 years, by 7 p.m. Last fall, they forged a document saying they had fulfilled their obligation to sit through a safety talk by a fire inspector. Members of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity were in a brawl near their chapter house at the University of Maryland-College Park one weekend this summer.
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