Congratulations to Zeta Epsilon Zeta at UTEP!

[Cube TX]

I just wanted to say congratulations to my old chapter at the University of Texas at El Paso for winning Greek Week yet again! If I'm not mistaken that's another back-to-back Greek Week championship.

After a long drought, we'd gotten tired of watching the same fraternity win over and over back in the 90s so we decided to give it a real effort and try our best in 1997 with the small amount of members we had (I believe it was around 10 or 12 guys) and finished third. In 1998 the fraternity had more than doubled in size and finished first in an enormous landslide. The chapter easily repeated in 1999 before losing by one lousy point in 2000. From there I'm not 100% sure of the years, but I keep in touch with two of the actives and was able to gather that Lambda Chi has won 5 of those last 8, which would mean 7 of the last 10 since 1998.

I know Lambda Chi also did well in awards given to GLOs, but I'm not sure of the specifics as to which were won. Last I'd heard, Lambda Chi also had the highest GPA on campus among GLOs and above the campus male-average.

It's great to hear about the chapter doing so well even though I haven't been active in nearly a decade. It's hard to believe that back in Fall 1996 we were down to five members when we had an emergency meeting at a restaurant near campus to discuss whether we would be able to save the fraternity. Of those five guys, one didn't last but one other one came back; turns out he missed the meeting only because he was watching a Bears game on Monday Night Football and had forgotten about anything else.

(Interesting side note: In May 1996 the Kappa Sigma president had insulted us at a party for one of our members' graduation and acceptance to law school in San Antonio -- "Look where Kappa Sigma is today and look where Lambda Chi is today. Kappa Sig is on top and will be for a long time". In Spring 1997 Kappa Sigma was closed down by their nationals for excessive debt and allegations of drug use.)

Lambda Chi is the oldest fraternity on campus and I'm proud to have been part of that organization. God bless Lambda Chi Alpha!