"PIKE Love..."
 

Pi Kappa Alpha Boys? Come on, everybody- What do you think of PIKES? I go to FSU, where they are the biggest and (One Of the) most popular Frats on Campus. Although everybody pleads to go to their socials and date Functions, they have kinda a "Hottie *%$hole/ Stereotypical Frat Boy" Rep- maybe cuz they were kicked off campus for 12 years, only to come back and be the best? :D

I know they are huge out there. We got one of their rush brochures and its amazing. Its the kind of chapter we strive to be like. We arent huge here at OU. Just a medium sized chapter since we got into trouble about 10 years ago. But they are a good chapter. Never met any Pikes from there but all i know is they are one of our top chapters. If you have a problem hanging out with them because they are "typical frat boy stereotypes" then the only advice i can offer is dont hang out with them.

OUPike1773

University of Oklahoma
Beta Omicron

All I can say is gotta love them Pikes.They are always sweet, not that the rest of you aren't sweet , but just recently I met a whole bunch of Pikes and they were just soo nice and helpful.
So on that note, Gotta Love them Pikes, and Gotta Love allll my fellow greeks
nothing but 150% Greekness :D
DGPhoney~

More PIKE Love...
 

Just wanted to be sure nobody got me wrong on my Pi Kappa Alpha post. I am dating a PIKE here and think the guys are a Helluva lot of fun- either despite or because of any stereotypes about them!!!!:) :eek:

The PIKE's on our campus were actually not recognized by the university for a while. They're kind of one of the lower key houses, yet they manage to rush well and are definetly social. They helped us out a lot when we were first trying to get on campus, showing us some of the ropes and stuff, giving us connections when we needed em so I'd say they're pretty good guys.

I worked with a PKA this summer for about three days. He seemed cool.

Love those PIKE boys!
 

Some of my best friends in school were PIKEs, and the same holds true today even though it's been years since graduation! :)

Pikes In Florida
 

The Pikes in Florida seem to be the leaders, although there are a lot of really good fraternities in the state. At Florida State and at University of Miami the Pikes tend to be the football players.

Kansas
 

The Pike's at the University of Kansas got kicked off campus a few years ago.

I have quite a few buddies that are PIKES, all of the guys I played basketball with in HS are PIKES at UH, the love it. I love partying with them, but thats about all I can think of them being good at. They arent the brightest guys in the world, they are like the your typical "frat", not fraternity. Much love though, we dont have them at my school, unfortunately, or I might be one.

I love Pike...
 

but then I guess I'm biased, I married one, and was a lil sis :D

The PIKES on our campus are trying really hard to fix their rep because they have a sort of "bad boy" image. I know there were a few scandles back in the day about girls getting raped at their formals, but now they are consintrating on Phil and them seem to be doing better. I know they are a pretty good house down at the UA too, but I have only heard that from a sister who went to their formal.

Pike Big Sis here!

Pike was kicked off our campus right before I pledged DZ and then they came back on later. Now they have just lost their house...I don't exactly know what that means for them. My school is losing fraternities. We just lost TKE (they were doing really stupid, irresponsible things) and I think that SAM left too. My school is strange in that we have only 6 fraternities that are big and active and there are like 6 more that do absolutely nothing and they never mix with anyone, nobody has been to their house, nobody knows anything other than the fact that they supposedly have a chapter...quite weird.

the Pikes at our school treat people like they are better then everyone else. Everyone should remember that we should treat each other with the greek love and remember we got to be in this together.

Pikes at Nebraska, have the most guys of any chapter, but no house. They are a really, really, really diverse bunch of guys everything from some of the best campus leaders to some guys who care nothing about studying and only party. All the Pikes I've met though have been pretty cool, down to earth guys.

I think theyre forgotten about sometimes since they don't have a house. And occasionally you will hear rumors that they'll sign anyone, at anytime - not sure how true that is.

But, yeah, so anyways - some pretty decent guys IMHO

I have to agree with most of you here and say that I have an affinity for Pike's too. I have only had good experences with them, and dated one in college for over a year. Even after we broke up, he and his brothers treated me with the utmost respect, and I can guarantee that behavior was a rarity. My little brother is heading to college next year and I will definitely encourage him to go Pike!!!

Carrie

Hey everybody thanks for all the great words about Pikes! I know the FSU chapter has really been busting their butts since re-colonization. When they chartered, they Initiated 137 Brothers as the Re-Founding Fathers, instantly becoming the third largest Pike Chapter in all the 210 active chapters out there; and becoming the single largest chartering in Pike history!

I've been a Pike for almost 10 years now and it truly changed my life for the better!

I always like hearing good words about my Brothers and the opinions others have of the Fraternity.

Pikes!
 

My best guy friend here at MIZZOU is a Pike and he is cooler than cool! They also have many amazingly NICE looking guys in their house! Go see their website if you don't believe me hehe. :D

lost touch with my favorite Pike :(
 

One of the most amazing (hilarious, attractive, always makes me smile) guys I met during college, who happens to be a Pike, recently moved away...I didn't realize how much I'd miss him till he is gone! Anyway, all the Pikes that I know are great guys...I think the way they joke about the stereotyped Pike guy is what was so great about them. They knew what people thought about them and always turned it into their benefit, it was great. Anyway much love to the Pikes out there.

And to all you other fraternities too! ;)

Tara

---to practice day by day
love, honor, truth---

Since this thread was resurrected, I just wanted to add that my favorite hot guy is a PIKE from the University of Illinois (or Illinois State--I can't remember which one). Meeting him was such a surprise because rarely do I ever come across fraternity brothers in Hawaii!!! He's a former A/E, A/F and Banana Republic model...and the fact that he's all of that and STRAIGHT is a big plus. Haha. It's still in the beginning stages but I love spending time with him!

The PIKES at UALR are nice, easy going and fun guys. They have been big supporters of Pi Phi and we love them lots!

TG

PIKEs are awesome at Virginia Tech. They are most girls' favorite fraternity. They are all hot, really easy going, fun to be around, and they aren't jerks like a bunch of guys in other fraternities are. However, most of the frats here dont like Pike because they think that Pike will take anybody and that the pledge period isnt "tough" enough. But, I could care less about that-- we love them!! We did homecoming with them 2 years ao and they were sooooo fun.


One other thing--- Pike was kicked off of VT years ago and just recolonized in the past few years. They got a house on Greek Row this year, and I think that they already are the biggest frat in terms of numbers, which says a lot. They are definitely in the top 5 frats and will stay there for a while!

VT Tri-D
 

That's almost exactly the case for II K A's here at FSU!:D

Thanks for the Kind Words
 

As a Pike, it's both flattering and reassuring to hear that at many campuses where there are Pikes, my brothers are practicing what our fraternity teaches. On the other hand, our chapters that are not successful are having their charters come under review.

The chapters at FSU, Virginia Tech, and Nebraska have all been re-founded after significant absences on their campuses within the last 3 years. Each has over 100 members, and is among the elite chapters of PiKA. This is due to our headquarters seeking out men that are incredibly diverse and are extremely dedicated and competitive. Likewise, each of these chapters has a pledge education program that does not haze and is successful in educating pledges, rather than what "harder" programs in other fraternities do.

I find it humorous that other fraternities try to bash Pikes by saying that we'll "give a bid to anyone" or that our pledge ed program is too easy. My guess is that they are jealous that there are SOOOO many beautiful sorority women who love Pikes. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather spend my fraternity experience meeting sorority women than spending an inordinant amount of time having a "hard" pledge period.

Thank you to all of you who have added your impressions of Pi Kappa Alpha on your campus, etc. I hope that there are similar threads for other GLO's, so that we all can brag on the great things that Greeks do. But I expect Pikes to set the standard for the right way for fraternity men to treat a woman, teacher, random person, etc.

The Pikes at UCO are great guys. They're a group that we can always count on for support (and vice-versa).

The Sigma Nu and Pike chapters are both brand new at UCO -- we recieved our charters about a month apart from eachother.

They actually invited us to their post-chartering party (lots of us went) and we had a great time!

LHT
Kevin

First, I would just like to say that the Pikes in Tennessee are among the best! My best friend and roommate just got 'dropped' by her Pike boyfriend...we are both huge Pike supporters! And, of course, the gentlemen of PiKA are the hottest at our school!
ps we're doing homecoming with them in the fall and I can't wait!!

Blaire

Proud to be a DELTA ZEE!

No matter the letter, greeks do it better!

If you expect this....... then you are DEFINITELY getting it from the PIKEs at Virginia Tech!!!! They are really the nicest and most laid-back guys on our campus. They have so much pride in their fraternity and you can really tell when they are out on campus. Tri-Delt loves these guys--- they have never been anything less than completely respectful to us, and we always have SUCH a great time when we do socials with them. They really care if we are having a good time, and if they think we arent, then they do something to fix it. KEPike, I really think you should be so pround to call the PIKEs at VT your brothers--- they give a GREAT name to your fraternity!



p.s.-- just a question--- i remember a year or so ago, everyone referred to them as PIKA. they have since changed it to plain PIKE and ask everyone to call them that too. is there a reason for this change, because they seem pretty adament about only being called PIKE, rather than PIKA. if you cant say, thats perfectly understandable, but i was just wondering.

Pike Nomenclature
 

Pi Kappa Alpha is called by a variety of names. In olden days, we were often called Pi Kaps or Pikas (pike-uhhs). When Pi Kappa Phi came along, the more widely know Pikes was used and Pi Kaps was pretty much abandoned. Although I've met several old old alums that refer to us as Pi Kaps.

As far as Pike vs. PiKA goes, my guess is that it done to differentiate us from Kappa Alpha. Either is used depending on where you go. I know that many chapters on the West Coast are taught to only say Pike, probably just because of the correlations that can be made with name (Pikes Peak, Pike Spike, etc). I liken it to FIJI with Phi Gamma Delta.

In our chapter, Pike is what people call us. However, we mostly refer to ourselves in writing and in more formal settings as PiKA since we are Kappa Epsilon Chapter. This can cause some confusion. Unfortunately, in our campus newspaper and various campus newsletters, we get called pke, ke, or pka. We prefer the correct Greek writing.

I would say call them whatever you feel most comfortable with. If they take offense to PiKA, just say you wanted to call them by their correct Greek letters.

On a different note, Jeff Labreque from VT consulted our chapter this year. From what I understand (since I'm an alum), he did a good job in helping reinforce the same values and beliefs that VT Pikes have with my chapter at Rockhurst. But again I'm flattered that you and others have such a positive view of my brothers. It certainly validates my Greek choice as well as my love for Pike, PiKA, or any other name that we are called!

Thanks for all of the shout-outs.

I love the pikes
 

I love the Pikes, they have the best looking guys on campus.

the Pikes here are an awesome group. i have some good buddies that are pikes and they are some of the coolest most respectable guys youll meet. i think theyre the biggest chapter on campus right now, but im not sure. a quality chapter for sure.

SO SAD!!
 

One of my best guy friendds/ex boyfriend, Matt, on campus is a PKA ... and they just got booted from campus for 6 years!! I love these guys, they're awesome... hot, fun, can throw a good party, and ... ok ok, they're the typical meatheads... but then again that's the rap they get everywhere...
Pi Kappa Alpha = hot, ass-holes, who are meatheads, and beat everyone up (no offense... that's just what rumor has it) Anyway, I digress... :rolleyes:
But I love them, started hanging out with them beginig of last year when I met Matt. I was supposed to go to NC for a Mountain Weekend with them this past weekend when they had to call it off cause IFC was coming down on 4 fraternities for [aparent] hazing. The verdict is in: and they are out!!
The sad thing is that Matt has never been to one of his fraternities Mountain Weekends (and he's a JUNIOR) because he didnt pledge til spring of his freshman year, then last year he broke his leg in 6 spots and had to go home to Florida for the semester, and this year it was cancelled cause of IFC. POOR KID!!

Ok, enough of my rambling... time to go console matt... :(

AXOTiger!
 

Which chapter of ours just got kicked off for 6 years?!

Do'nt want to start rumors...
 

bolingbaker,

I talked to my friend, Matt, when he came over last night. This had been the first time since I heard about this... and anyway, apparently they are still in the appeal process, but he said somthing to the sort of, "... we don't need a campus...", so I don't know what he meant by that. But he said that their Mountain Weekend was rescheduled for the spring, so apparently they'll either say f*#k IFC, and go off campus, or they'll just be on probation. It's weird, i had a friend in a different fraternity tell me that PKA were off campus, then I asked Matt if he'd gotten my email and if it were true, and he goes, yeah. So I'm really confused at the moment.

I'll keep you posted though. :rolleyes:

It's always bad when a chapter closes.... But if they were hazing what the hell were they thinking? The Pikes on our campus don't haze (they're one of Pike's newest chapters founded last April) and they have quickly risen to be one of the top fraternities on campus. Hopefully if they make it through the appeals process they can reform their organization internally.

But IFC booting you for 6 years seems a little excessive if it's just a 1st time offense.

Yeah I know... but see I'm not sure if they WERE hazing or not. I mean everyone knows that they're rowdy, crazy, and loud... but as for hazing... I can't say. It's just a bad situation.

One of my best guy friends in college was a pike, but they were kind of jerks like totally bailing on us for greek week - only one of their brothers (my friend) participated in greek week with us.

They hazed like nobody's business and then it all finally came to a head in like 97 or 98 when one of their members was drunk and speeding through the main thoroughfare on campus. One of the campus police that was on foot tried to signal him to stop and the guy ran the police over and instead of stopping he sped up and dragged the guy all the way down the street - parts and pieces all over the place, it was a horrible tragedy. But the pike totally hit and run - the next day he took his car in to get cleaned and repaired skipped town. His parents were very wealthy and spent all sorts of money to try keep him out of trouble. He finally turned himself in a few days later.

Anyways, they were suspended by the university, but the fraternity maintained the chapter "off campus".


Here's the article:


A NOPD officer escorts Josh Gimelstob, accompainied by his attorney, Jerome Winsberg, into the NOPD Fatality Unit Tuesday, Jan. 23.
Courtesy of the Times-Picayune


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J oshua Gimelstob, a 20-year-old University College sophomore and a Tulane tennis player, was charged with negligent homicide and felony hit-and-run in connection with the death of Tulane Police Sgt. Gilbert Mast. Gimelstob turned himself in to the New Orleans Police Fatality Unit Jan. 23 at 4 p.m.
Each charge that Gimelstob received carries a maximum five-year prison term and a maximum $5,000 fine. Police are investigating an obstruction of justice charge as well. Although Judge Calvin Johnson set bail at $25,000, Gimelstob was set free on a recognizance bond until Monday over prosecutors' objections. His family has until then to produce the money.

The incident began at 4 a.m. Jan. 20 when Sgt. Mast and Tulane Police Officer Don Dorsey pulled over a car for a routine traffic violation on McAlister Drive at the Irby Hall crosswalk. As the policemen exited their cars, they heard a vehicle speeding down McAlister. Both officers signaled the driver of the Jeep Cherokee to stop, but it accelerated toward them. The Jeep first hit a parked van and then Sgt. Mast on the opposite side of the street. The Jeep dragged him 40 to 50 feet, where he came to rest under a parked car. Officer Dorsey had managed to jump out of the way. The driver then continued down McAlister, ran the red light at McAlister and Willow and turned down Willow. When Tulane Emergency Medical Service arrived, Mast had no pulse. He was pronounced dead of massive internal injuries at Charity Hospital at 4:30 a.m.

That night, Gimelstob had been out to several bars, including Nick's, Friar Tuck's and Se–or Phrogg's, with the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, which supplied four buses to take participants to and from the bars. While at Se–or Phrogg's, he met a female Tulane student, whose name has not been released. When the buses returned to the Broadway fraternity house at about 2:30 a.m., Gimelstob and the woman went to his house to watch a movie.

He then dropped her off at Sharp Hall. After Gimelstob drove away, the woman heard a noise as she was walking to her dorm, but did not connect the noise to Gimelstob. She stated that when she exited the Jeep, Gimelstob was alone.

On Jan. 22, Gimelstob's attorneys directed police investigators and officials with the district attorney's office to a Jeep Cherokee at Benson Chevrolet in Kenner. Gimelstob allegedly sent the vehicle there to be repaired. They also began to negotiate for Gimelstob's surrender. His lawyers, Jerome Winsberg and Jeffrey Smith, insisted that a bond hearing be set immediately after his arrest.

At 4 p.m. the next day, Gimelstob, accompanied by Winsberg, turned himself in to the police Fatality Unit. Commented Winsberg, "You can't compare it to what happened to the family of Sgt. Mast, but this has devastated this family. They are very, very fine people."

Gimelstob is a member of Tulane's tennis team. He received a partial athletic scholarship from the university after being ranked 10th in the East while in high school in New Vernon, New Jersey. His brother, Justin Gimelstob, is a nationally-ranked tennis player who played in the U.S. and French Opens. Robert Klein, the coach of the Tennis team, was unavailable for comment.

According to Ken Dupaquier, the Director of Public Safety, the media reports were wrong in asserting that Gimelstob was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. University sources claim that Gimbelstob was neither a pledge nor a member. Ronald Levine, the president of the fraternity, would not comment.

In response to the question of possible expulsion of Gimelstob as a result of the charges, Tulane spokesperson Robyn Ekings said, "As with any possible violation of the Honor Code, the university has begun an investigation which is waiting for the court's decision before any action is taken."

Tulane Police Lt. Stan Cosper said that although Gimelstob has been charged with this crime, "history, God, and the justice system will judge him ... [So Gimelstob will need] the support of the university and the community."

forgot to mention - the reason why they said he wasn't a member is because he went below hours and so was temporarily enrolled in University College at the time which is for part time students...but he was most definitely a member.

Tulane
 

Yes, that was a horrible situation. I've heard that the University told our Supreme Council that they would never let Pike come back to that campus. Quite understandable. However, it is our Eta chapter, so it's been around forever.

Luckily, our top-flight expansion team was able to persuade the school into letting them come back...when the time was right.
So eventually we will get to go back there.