Chain of Command

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Chain of Command: Year after year, fraternity fills top Student Government positions
By Laura Clark
September 29, 2009
The Kentucky Kernel
(The University of Kentucky)

Dynasty is a word commonly used to describe the UK men’s basketball team. What about Sigma Chi?

From 2007 to present, three former Sigma Chi presidents have held some of the highest positions in UK Student Government.

Sigma Chi’s UK chapter, Lambda Lambda, has seen members Nick Phelps, Grant Mills and Ryan Smith rise to power in campus politics. Even though the current fraternity president, George Kington, is currently not considering involvement in SG, Sigma Chi recruitment chairman and SG senator-at-large Sam Gillespie is considering taking a higher step into student politics.

What some may see as a dynasty may be seen as a coincidence by others, especially by those involved.

“It is kind of funny how it happened,” said Mills, Sigma Chi chapter president in 2007-08 and vice president of SG alongside Tyler Montell in 2008-09. “I think it was by happenchance that it happened to be this way.”

“It’s coincidental, it has nothing to do with being a Sigma Chi,” said current SG President Smith. “It completely happened out of the sky … some people believe it, and some people don’t.”

“People raise eyebrows, but it’ll come and go,” said Phelps, 2006-07 Sigma Chi president and 2007-08 SG president. “There has been something special going on through Sigma Chi the last few years. But it can change with the next pledge class.”

Gillespie attributed the draw of SG to wanting to make a difference on campus. Phelps said Sigma Chi’s leadership initiatives drove members to student politics. A deep appreciation for the university was Smith’s reason for taking both presidential responsibilities.

But each one of them, including Kington and Mills, used the words “being involved.”

Tyler Montell, a former non-Greek SG president, said Sigma Chi was a different kind of fraternity.

“When I was a freshman, there wasn’t much precedence at all on campus involvement,” Montell said. “Now, there really has been … real results, and cause for so many Sigma Chi’s being involved in student organizations in leadership.

“They stress (members) to make a difference not only in fraternity, but all over the place.”

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A fraternity on my campus has this going on as well. I, personally, think it describes what kind of men that this fraternity develops.