Soccer for a cause
Delta Sigma Phi fraternity hosts soccer tournament in honor of former member
By Sabrina Madrigal/ Staff writer
Published: Friday, April 15, 2005
For the past two years, the Delta Psi chapter of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity has invited sororities on campus to participate in their philanthropic soccer tournament,
Carnation Cup, to raise money for the Ryan Struebing scholarship fund.
"(Carnation Cup has) always had a pretty positive vibe," said Caleb Beiermann, a member of Delta Sigma Phi.
The winner of last year's cup was the
Alpha Phi sorority. "It's one of our favorite philanthropies of the whole year, and the whole house gets really into it because we have a lot of good soccer players," said Alpha Phi President Ali Stephans.
The inspiration for Carnation Cup,
Ryan Struebing, was a former Delta Sig president and a speech communications and disorders major who graduated in May of 2002. Struebing died unexpectedly of a viral infection that spread to his heart in the fall of 2003. He was an active member of both the Greek community as well as Eastern's community, said Bob Dudolski, director of Greek life, who was able to get to know Struebing well. Struebing became a member of Delta Sigma Phi in the fall of 1996 and held several important positions in the fraternity including president in 1998 and 1999. Struebing was named Greek Week King in 1999, and was a member of both the Homecoming and Greek Week Steering committees. "Ryan was a really popular student. He had a great sense of humor and a positive attitude that was very contagious," Dudolski said. "He was so involved with campus that he was able to get others involved too." Along with being president of his fraternity, he was also the vice president of the Interfraternity Council, which is the governing party for the nine fraternities at Eastern. Aside from his Greek involvement, Struebing was also an orientation leader and later on became an associate resident director as a graduate student.
Since Struebing's passing, the men of his former fraternity have held Carnation Cup to raise money in his honor. They have been able to raise $20,000, which was used to dedicate a room to Struebing in the new speech communications disorders wing of the Student Services building, Dudolski said. Dudolski said that after reaching their goal, they plan on raising another $5,000 to start a scholarship fund.
"Due to the fact that Struebing was such an active student on campus, qualifications for the scholarship will be set to fit someone who is able to exemplify some of the same qualities Struebing possessed," Dudolski said.
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