ZBT breaks ground for new fraternity house
03/25/05 - Students, staff and alumni gathered to celebrate the construction of a new house for Zeta Beta Tau.
"I'm ecstatic," Dan Riley, the University of Rhode Island's ZBT chapter president said. "It's been a long process."
URI President Robert Carothers addressed the members of ZBT with praise and caution for the future.
"You are all extraordinary leaders," he said. " When I came to URI, I was disillusioned about the fraternity situation. The challenge is to maintain what you have become in a new environment."
The new house is modeled after the original building. Lerner/Lads & Bartels, Inc., a Providence-based architectural firm, designed the house, and Shawmut Design and Construction will build the new house. The projected completion date of the new $2.2 million building is September 2005.