[KSUPIKE]

As of right know we are about 105-110 men strong, thats including our spring pledges. A pledge brother and myself are currently the Recruitment Chairman, and we are looking for a very strong fall pledge class 30-40 men should not be difficult and if we are persistant who knows. I like to think big, while keeping the quality of man very high. The History of Alpha Omega is quite interesting in the past 10 years.

About 98-99 Nationals came and reduced our nearly 100+ man chapter to I believe about a 25-35 man house. This was due to drug problems within the house. Then we ran on rougher times when the house had an electrical fire in 2000. I think my numbers are all off by one year, but not exactly sure. My pledge class in fall of 2004 has been the one that has really dominated the house in the past 2-3 years. We went from about a 65 man house to 110 in a few years, and we have maintained it. Issues concerning drugs are taken very, very seriously. We have kicked two guys out since I've been here. Currently 4 of the 7 Exec positions are held by Fall 04 pledge members. We have made alot of changes and things look to be going good for us. But we are not settling for mediocrity. We feel that we are very strong at Kansas State, ranked only 2nd in terms of Awards from Greek Affairs. (We Came in Second to Farmhouse). But that will all change this year. We will be Number 1 with the programs we have implemented. And we see no reason that PIKE should not dominate Kansas State.

We always look up to Alpha Kappa as what we want to model our house after, although there in a much different campus setting than we are.