It's kind of funny...

[GammaZeta]

Was up at the old stomping grounds today, Umass-Amherst. A lot has changed, but so much has stayed the same.

I remember about 1.5-2 years ago a group of alumni got together to try to restart Gamma Zeta. They had about 300 names of alumni willing to donate time and money to get it started.

HQ was aware of this and replied that the "climate" at Umass-Amherst wasn't right, that the greek system was "on the decline". That there was "no chance" of a successful recolonization effort and that we shouldn't waste our time.

The disheartened group of alumni bought into that argument.

It's kind of funny.......

I remember about 5 months ago in the spring reading an article about Pike coming back to the Umass campus in Spring of 07. It was a basic article about the start up of a new Pike chapter at Umass. 7 years ago Pike had been thrown off campus for some, well let's just say severe illegal activity. They continued for several more years after that operating as an underground chapter with success.

Anyways, I was talking to my friend who was an alumni of Pike. He said he was involved in their recolonization, that they wanted to do it "the right way" and not relive their troubled past....kinda like what we alumni wanted.

Anyways, they started recolonization just LAST semester, Spring 07.

Today I drove by the old Gamma Zeta house.

Guess who is the new inhabitant? Pike....with about 50 guys.

It's kind of funny....

I guess our HQ forgot to tell Pike that Umass-Amherst greek life was "dead".