Jacksons Dream is alive in the Islands.
 

a brother from my chapter theta delta lives in hawaii and has been helping another alum start a chapter at university of hawaii. along with the aid of the ARM for Area 5, Mike Olivas, these brothers were able to pull in a remarkable 42 people interested in our order. they have already been pledged and apparently this is one of the fastest turnarounds from colony to chapter. they arent a chapter yet obviously but are well on their way.

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josh snyder
theta delta

I just read an email regarding this on one of the listserve this morning. Congratulations to the men who made this happen.

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Collin

I kept in contact with Jason B. ever since Kappa Sigma first made news on campus and my girls have nothing but positive things to say about these guys. I've known some of them for a while....some of their pledges have attended our functions in past semesters, so it's awesome to see them making Greek life better at UH-Manoa in the name of Kappa Sigma.

Since Kappa Sigma came on campus I heard that reorganization within the Inter-Greek Council is in the works. Our VP-Student Affairs (who is also an Alpha Gam) has recently been appointed to the North American InterFraternal Foundation, so Greek life's definitely waking up.

I'm attending the Alpha Gam RoseBall next month...hopefully I'll get to meet more Kappa Sigmas!

That's great...hopefully they continue to do well and make a good name for themselves in the Greek community and university as a whole.

Great News
 

That is so cool that we colonized UH-Manoa...

As far as I know we are the only International Fraternity to have a colony or chapter anywhere in the islands... is this true someone who knows?

The AA out there (Jason Bothwell, Theta-Zeta) is a past DGM of my district and I can say with confidence that he will push those guys really hard to excel, regardless of the size of the campus greek system....

They better get a nice big house... because I can see quite a few visiting brothers "dropping by to crash on a couch"...

Congrats to the pledges at UH-Manoa!!

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Mike

Re: Great News
 

Beta Theta Pi, TKE, and Sigma Phi Epsilon have all had chapters at UH-Manoa at one point. Can't recall who was first -- I want to say Beta, but not sure.

ucsb???
 

on kappasigma.org, for a few weeks they had both hawaii and ucsb listed as upcoming colonys. now hawaii is a fullfledged colony and ucsb is not on the upcoming or fullfledged colony lists. anyone know what happened?

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UCSB
 

UC Bakersfield Colony got off the ground just recently but apparently our interest group at UCSB fell apart.

That school just seems to be elusive for Kappa Sigma.

Give it time, it will come... personally I want to see UCLA recolonized...

We have to remember that we cant colonize EVERYWHERE at once... we have colonized more schools in the last 2 years than in the decade previous or something ridiculous like that.

Also - about UH-Manoa - Do any of the other nationals still maintain a chapter there was my question???

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Mike

Re: UCSB
 

True...sometimes it can take quite a bit of time to get the colony process off the ground and on the way to chapter status. A lot of factors come into play, so we should give all of this news time.

Like Mike said, we've had a lot of expansion in the past year; some of it has happened at lightning speed, but that's not the way it has been (or will be) with every situation.

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Collin

Re: UCSB
 

When I graduated, TKE was in the process of getting back to campus. According to the campus paper, they're still around -- and I checked their HQ site, so I guess they're active again.

I met many of the Kappa Sigma colony men last night at my chapter's RoseBall.

Everyone had a great time...you guys definitely got some quality guys out here. Too bad they weren't around when I was still in school!

That's great that they are quality guys...hopefully the colonization process goes well and they become a new chapter quickly.

Bumping!
 

The dream became a reality! Congratulations on your newest chapter at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa!

http://myspace-796.vo.llnwd.net/0029...99474796_l.jpg

(The really happy guy holding the charter is the chapter president, also my sis-daughter's BF)

Re: Bumping!
 

That's awesome! Thanks for the head's up, and congratulations to my new brothers. What an accomplishment.

Collin

Re: UCSB
 

Sorry to intrude on your forum, there isn't a UC in Bakersfield, do you mean Santa Barbara?

Updates from Omicron Zeta
 

Hey Guys.
I am a newly initiated brother at the Omicron-Zeta chapter at the University of Hawaii.
The guy in the middle was our former GM Brother Mike Ray.
I have never seen that picture before and it is pretty cool.
Jason Bothwell who I just met just recently came back from Iraq and is out DGM.
I enjoy being part of Kappa Sigma and glad I am here. We do have another national Organization Fraternity which is the TKE's yet they have approximately 4 members to my knowledge. And we have a Local Fraternity KEO which has about 25 members. We are by far the largest Greek Organization currently on campus.
We are going through some changes our self yet see a great future for us.http://myspace-607.vo.llnwd.net/0133...39167607_l.jpg

This is photo from our last Pledge Retreat. This was taken the day before teh Earthquake in Hawaii hit us. We have about 40 active brothers in our chapter.

Pertaining to the islands. University of Hawaii at Hilo (Omicron-Zeta is at Manoa) on the Big Island is attempting to start a colony! Hopefully soon it will be set up!

They don't have Greek Life (besides the professional fraternities) at all, do they?

Good luck with that.

Hmm, that would be quite a challenge. Has the Greek system failed there previously?

From what I know of the campus, I don't think anyone's even bothered to colonize there.

Hilo's a sleepy little town on the Big Island and campus population isn't as diverse as Manoa. You can't find a good restaurant that's open past 8PM!

The majority of its students are Hawai`i residents who haven't really been exposed to Greek Life and don't know much about it. I wish Kappa Sigma the best of luck there, but if Greek Life is weak at a commuter campus like Manoa with 18,000 students, I find it hard for any social GLO to get off the ground in Hilo.

Thanks for the info. That doesn't sound like the best of circumstances for a GLO, but I hope for the sake of the guys who join up that things work out. Nothing would be more disappointing than putting in all that work for nothing to come of it.

I hope so too.

But I'm glad to know that these guys are making an attempt. They've done so much already in their short time at Manoa, and if there's a group to pull it off -- it's these guys.

Yes Hilo is a large geographically area compared to Manoa yet population size is a bit smaller. And being from Hawaii and Graduating from a Hawaiian Only High School I do have many friends who attend Hilo. They have a very large interest group there and I along with my Omicron-Zeta Brothers are excited about them starting. We will be there for their pledge ceremonies coming next semester hopefully and will be there to help them rush.

Please do not quote me on this either but I am a transfer student to Manoa and I came from a private university up the road called Chaminade. They are looking at starting a Greek System and I have been planning with our DGM in starting a Colony there also coming up.

Who's "they"? The Marianists? I assume you're from Kapaaaaaaalama? ;) I MUA!

Glad to know that y'all got the ball rolling in Hilo.

As someone who's also very familiar with Chaminade University (I took advanced classes there in HS and studied there for my post-grad work), I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the chances of a fraternity surviving there are way better than a sorority's. I'd love to see a much more diverse Greek Life in the islands, and while I certainly don't speak for the NPC, I find it highly unlikely that another NPC will colonize here anytime soon. It's geographically and financially risky, IMO. But hopefully things can change if expansionary activity takes place with Kappa Sigma.

Is HPU next, then? ;)

Please keep me informed. All this has definitely piqued my interest.

Yes Imua Kamehameha. I am from Kapalama Campus. At Chaminade for some reason the administration has been talking about bringing Greek Life in yet the students really do not know what Greek Life is.

And the Hilo Colony seems to be doing fine. I hope that do well and now we have a reason to visit the other islands. And hopefully they will be able to come down to Manoa for Greek Olympics.

As for any other National Organization coming down we do hope so. I feel that Kappa Sigma is a corner stone of a new Greek Age in Hawaii. We were able to create a pretty strong group here in Hawaii and know that we are not the only ones that are able to do this. I was just talking with one of my cousin who I just found out is a TKE Alumni and he said when he was at Manoa Greek Life was great and that was only 10 years ago. I think we will be able to bring it back strong at Manoa.

10 years ago eh? I may know your cousin. PM me with his name, if you don't mind. We had a strong relationship with the TKEs back then!

Chaminade's always been a weird campus and that's why I passed them over when deciding on where I should do my undergrad. I don't know... they're not really known for an active and busy student involvement. Hopefully all that can change.

But who knows though? Maybe you'll generate interest with the seniors at St. Louis going off to college?

Yeah it is true that the student life inst the greatest there. That is why i left and I love it at Manoa and joining Kappa Sigma is the greatest thing I have ever done. Yet while I was at Chaminade I was the president of our paintball club and Chaminade supports the students very well with facilities and financial help.