Good job gossip hounds!

Im glad to see little bits of information being gathered here and there, here is another website that leads me to believe DePauw (Xi) is going to come back into focus soon!

Lenoxxx


http://www.2stayconnected.com/lca-depauw/index.php

I'd swear we had a colony at American University sometime in the past.

according to Ped V.45
we had a colony at Catholic Univeristy of America from 82-83

is that the same?

lenoxxx

Catholic University and American University are both in DC but there is no connection between the two. I thought we had been at American, but it could well have been Catholic instead.

The Greeks in DC have a hard row to hoe; so many of the kids in town have "Potomac Fever" and are caught up in the whirl of being in DC. So many of them have political stars in their eyes and a fair amount of effort goes into making contacts on "The Hill" and more traditional Greek activities seem to get left by the wayside.

That being said, we have a great group at George Washington University that are working hard to strike a balance between the different forces tugging at them.

http://www.gwu.edu/~lca/home.htm

That is the current GWU website

They are a newer chapter but reside in the old Sigma Chi House downtown in DC.

Id say Catholic was what you wre thinking of there John.

I'm just wondering when the new "we are expanding list" will go public, but it is interesting to see how much info and gossip this small group of people seems to know/generate.

Keep on posting!

Lenoxxx

I wanna expand to Chapman University in Orange, California, but nobody agrees

Catholic Univ.
 

We did have a colony their for only about six months. But from what i hear they had a lot of problems. We absorbed an already existing local. CU doesn't have greeks now. not sure if it by choice or if the school doesn't allow them.


American on the other hand has a pretty strong greek life and on the other side of DC, just above GW i believe.

A brother from the university of South Carolina Aiken
 

Yeah, We've only been in existince for about a semester now as Lambda Chi. I did have a chance to work with Shane Foley, the ELC Lifesaver was talking about. Definitely a cool guy who helped us out a lot while we were adjusting from a local Fraternity to LCA. I was lookin around the GC and was surprised to see someone talking about USCA. We are hoping to get our charter after this semester, we are really working hard to get all of the requirements filled out and im looking forward to the chartering banquet. The alumni help is great as well we have had a lot of support from the alumni in the aiken, columbia, augusta area. But rush is coming up and im the Delta so I've been busting my A$$ to get ready for and im definitely confident in picking up a lot of quality guys this fall during Formal and Informal rush.

ZAX,

Jarod

Brother Jarod, Welcome to GC! Please keep us posted on USCA doings.

Hope all chapters will do well!

We closed our House and are in the process of trying to get a new one built. It is sad when you are used to having a central point to get with the Brothers.:(

Wont seem like the same till we get a new house!

new info
 

Based on some rumors and hearsay that I can pick up from the denizens on the net

I think, now mind you I think but dont take this as the facts here,

That we are re-colonizing at Spring Hill College (delta-delta)
and at University of Calgary (delta-zeta)

Not that I would know from lca.org or from the cross and crescent I still havent gotten.......

Lenoxxx

Where is Spring Hill?

Some day I'd like to spend some quality time with the expansion gurus and see how they weigh all the different factors involved.

A couple of years ago we attempted to go to Chapman University and lost the 'beauty paegent' that the university made us participate in. As far as i know we have closed the book on Chapman and I'm curious why. If the interest was there in 2001, how did it fall off the screen in 2003?

Rumors?
 

Rumor has it we are colonizing soon at South East Oklahoma State University.

If true, way to go Lambda Chi Alpha!


Lenoxxx

I would like to see a chapter or two open up in New Jersey.

Are there any in the works?

What happened to the chapter at Rutgers?

ZAX
Jarret
A1243

Lenoxxx, is that the school in Edmon,Ok?

Also ask same question, Where is Spring Hill?

For the record, Southeastern Oklahoma State is in Durant, and Spring Hill College of the Society of Jesus is in Mobile, AL. Having the NIC Directory helps a lot!

ZAX,
Bill Foltz
BO 130

re: Rutgers
 

My memory may be bad, but wasn't the chapter at Rutgers
closed for something _really bad_??? I think the death
of an AM from alcohol intox? Seems I remember it made
national news back in the late 80's when I was active.

After it was on the news, parents of active LXA's were
calling their sons' college/univ admin and asking
"Is this what my son had to go thru to get into
LXA?" (it was some kind of drinking game, drinking
dozens of shots in a row, I think.) Dan Rather (NBC news)
reported the drinking game as "part of LXA's initiation ritual."

Of course, it was just a local tradition after their AM
ceremony. I _think_ that was Rutgers, but could be wrong.

KJ
Kappa-Omega 958

Yes that is what happened to the Rutgers chapter. 1987 i think, it was the first real national attention to this kind of event. From what i hear LCA is still hated on that campus to this day, understandibly so. But from that the Iota position was created and we were the first fraternity to establish risk management standards if im not mistaken.

1980's hate
 

The wacky thing about people Hating LCA from the 1980's is almost ridiculous now. Look at a 1987 composite now, it is like aliens from another planet. Yeah it was a tragedy that a college student died, but hanging onto those evil LCA's from 1987 is really starting to stretch it a bit. Heck, an AM died at Iowa in 1995 and they recolonized there like 2 years ago.


Lenoxxx

In reading the above post on expansion to Sring Hill College, it is a Jesuit school in Mobile, Al.

SE Ok. is in Durante.

A member of Pin Collectors Club said that there is a Premptor Presentation to a Sholl In San Antonieo Tx.

I dont rememer what school it is, but @ The Divine Light or something. Lifesaver would know as is in his back yard! It too is a Roman Catholic affiliated school. I do not understand why after I told Hdq about Shorter College, Rome Ga. Who wanted to do away with Locals and go with National only that we did not look at it!:(

But if a few of the Oldsters on here remember, I got my ass chewed out for copying you that it was none of my business.:eek:

Well maybe we are expanding, and re-colonizing! I hope so!:)

re: Shorter
 

Shorter College might be a risky place to go right now. They
are in a big legal battle with the Ga. Baptist Convention...
basically they are in the process of "breaking away" from,
or at least distancing themselves from church control.

I am sure that allowing "Fraternities" (their locals were
probably called "social clubs", which are OK at "Christian"
colleges, but not "Fraternities") is one way the college
admin is "thumbing their nose" (or making moves in a
progressive direction) at the conservatives in the
church that they are battling.

This is just a guess, from someone who's been
in similar situations before.

Anyway, as you can see, our IHQ probably wouldn't
want to get in the middle of such a struggle...and if
the conservatives "win" Shorter, all the nationals
will be banned again anyway.

my 2 cents worth :)

P.S. I DO NOT LOOK LIKE A SPACE ALIEN ON THE 1987
COMPOSITE! I RESEMBLE, ER UM, RESENT THAT
REMARK!:D

P.S.S. Another reason a college would want to get rid
of locals is that locals don't have liability insurance like
nationals....but probably only a lawsuit involving a
local would prompt them in that direction...another
brainstorm

Reason Brought up was a menber of GC who works at Shorter was and is on GC, Carnation, advised me of this @ Year ago. DSP and PM have been accepted and are doing very well!

Re: re: Rutgers
 

It was actually after the big/little brother celebration that the death occurred, which may have also been done concurrently with the AM ceremony.

I was an AM at UNC when this happend - very sad. Murphy Osborne (former GHA) put together an educational video following this, and this also led to the creation of High Iota's in chapters.

In fact, my tagline comes from Brother Murphy in that video.

I beg to differ. An accidental fire during initiation would be very sad. What happened at Rutgers was disgraceful, uncaring, and most of all very stupid. It fit that chapter perfectly.

They were a bunch of f**cking a$$holes and I'm very glad we are rid of them. They did not deserve to be called Lambda Chis.

Jono - no need to differ - we agree on their conduct, and our perception of those so-called "brothers" - what was sad is that it took the taking of a life to wake up International to what apparently had been a long-existing problem. Someone trusted in their so-called "brothers" paid for his lack of judgement with his life - that is what is sad.

OK, Tom, I love ya, but cant understand a PHUCKING word of that first sentence. Premptor Sholl? TO answer what I think was your question....

There are 3 Catholic affilliated universities in SA offering the traditional program of Bachelor degrees and master degrees and are accred. by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (Our reg. accred. body) They are St. Mary's Univerity, which has a LXA chapter, Our Lady of the Lake University (not really conducive to expansion, as there are no fraternites and only a few VERY smallsororoities, none of which are NPC I think) and there is University of the Incarnate Word, which had an interst group for LXA in Spring of 2002 and an ELC visited with them and 2 peeps showed up to the meeting, so I dotn think it was deemed fruitful. They recently added 1 NPC sorority and have no NIC fraternities. We will see.

I still say U of Houston or Sam Houston State.

Lifesaver, Incarnate Word was the one I was refering to!

Jono, could explain this a little better as he informed me about it!

Yes, from what I'm told we are presenting at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio in October against Pike and Kappa Sigma. Delta Phi Epsilon is presenting there next week and their competition Theta Phi Alpha, presented two weeks ago. ASA is the only NPC group. Chi Phi has a colony. The enrollment there seems to be around 3,600.

What exactly happened? 7 or 8 years ago, they were a strong chapter, weren't they?

I was chapter advisor there about 7 - 8 years ago - great group of guys - I resigned in 98 due to work and family demands.

Gamma Pi got caught up in a bad PR situation. Apparently, a girl accused some members of supplying her with GHB at a party. Made it to the TV news. No way to get around it. The PR was so bad that there really was no alternative but to close - add to that the anti-greek administration in office, and yet another house made it to the closed list.

The GHB came from another fraternity house party she attended, and unfortunately they have a reputation for doing that - but have never been caught.

LXA should be returning in another year or so - they still own the house (free and clear, BTW).

That stinks! :(

On another note, I am applying to Colorado State for a second baccalaureate, so I may be in FC in a year or two to lend hand.

I nee dto do some investigating about this. If this is the case, I need to bring it up toi the board of the San Antonio Alumni Association as their future High Pi has a sea ton our Board of Directors under the structure of our constitution.

On a side note, It would be cool, becasue SA would be one of a handful of cities with 3 or more LXA chapters in the same city.

My Crystal Ball tells me we will be expanding to

Texas A&M International Campus

Lenoxxx

Lenoxx, I PM'd you. Please respond asap regarding TAMUIC. Thanks.

We have an alumni event this weekend and I'd like to discuss there with other alums.

TAMU International?
 

Is that in McAllen or Brownsville? I'd swear I saw the campus once, but I have no clue where it was.

Re: TAMU International?
 

Laredo, Texas.

UT- Pan American, Or more commonly, UT-PanAm is in Brownsville. Used to be known as Texas Southmost College. It's actually where most people park when they want to walk acros the border and go to Mexico.

Texas A&M International University, where I spent my first year of college, is in Laredo. Myself and Shane Foley, went and spoke to their interest group Thursday. To me they look promising, the Dean of Students is looking forward to a possible expansion. I went to TAMIU 4 years ago and it is truly amazing how fast that campus has grown. They don't have Greek Life on that campus at all, they have a co-ed, so I think it would be interesting to see us as the first fraternity on that campus. Luckily, we have 3 or 4 brothers of Phi Upsilon now attending TAMIU and they have expressed their interest to me about helping the interest group get off their feet. Time will tell.

Andrew, thanks for the update, I am going to delete your previous post as it refers to the same thing as this post!:)

Expansion Whispers
 

The crystal ball sees....

St Louis College of Pharmacy
DePauw
Univ. Idaho
Weber State
Univ of Utah
George Mason
West Virginia
Incarnate Word
Texas A&M Intl.
University of Dubuque
Eastern Washington Univ.

Take all of this with a grain of salt, Im basing this on some rumors and conversations I've been hearing from my dark corner of the universe. If these are true, then Way to Go Lambda Chi Expansion Staff


Lenoxxx

Jas, knowing you Bro. I would trust Your Crystal Ball anytime!:)

By the by, how goes with You??!!:)

Interesting cluster
 

Univ. Idaho
Weber State
Univ of Utah
Eastern Washington Univ.

Interesting cluster of schools: Two in Utah, one up the road in Idaho and one in Eastern Washington. Makes for a convinient recruitment / colonization trip.

Does the crystal ball have any insight regarding ASU? I have a 14 year old nephew...


Fraternally, I remain,

Toiling away as High Pi at Cal State Fullerton,