Expansion 2003 and Beyond - Page 5

Tom Earp · #61 09-25-2003, 07:03 PM

Reason Brought up was a menber of GC who works at Shorter was and is on GC, Carnation, advised me of this @ Year ago. DSP and PM have been accepted and are doing very well!

LXAAlum · #62 09-25-2003, 07:13 PM

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Originally posted by JoinerLxa
My memory may be bad, but wasn't the chapter at Rutgers
closed for something _really bad_??? I think the death
of an AM from alcohol intox? Seems I remember it made
national news back in the late 80's when I was active.

After it was on the news, parents of active LXA's were
calling their sons' college/univ admin and asking
"Is this what my son had to go thru to get into
LXA?" (it was some kind of drinking game, drinking
dozens of shots in a row, I think.) Dan Rather (NBC news)
reported the drinking game as "part of LXA's initiation ritual."

Of course, it was just a local tradition after their AM
ceremony. I _think_ that was Rutgers, but could be wrong.

KJ
Kappa-Omega 958

It was actually after the big/little brother celebration that the death occurred, which may have also been done concurrently with the AM ceremony.

I was an AM at UNC when this happend - very sad. Murphy Osborne (former GHA) put together an educational video following this, and this also led to the creation of High Iota's in chapters.

In fact, my tagline comes from Brother Murphy in that video.

JonoBN41 · #63 09-25-2003, 10:26 PM

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I was an AM at UNC when this happend - very sad.

I beg to differ. An accidental fire during initiation would be very sad. What happened at Rutgers was disgraceful, uncaring, and most of all very stupid. It fit that chapter perfectly.

They were a bunch of f**cking a$$holes and I'm very glad we are rid of them. They did not deserve to be called Lambda Chis.

LXAAlum · #64 09-26-2003, 01:10 AM

Jono - no need to differ - we agree on their conduct, and our perception of those so-called "brothers" - what was sad is that it took the taking of a life to wake up International to what apparently had been a long-existing problem. Someone trusted in their so-called "brothers" paid for his lack of judgement with his life - that is what is sad.

lifesaver · #65 09-26-2003, 04:03 AM

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Originally posted by Tom Earp

A member of Pin Collectors Club said that there is a Premptor Presentation to a Sholl In San Antonieo Tx.

I dont rememer what school it is, but @ The Divine Light or something. Lifesaver would know as is in his back yard! It too is a Roman Catholic affiliated school.

OK, Tom, I love ya, but cant understand a PHUCKING word of that first sentence. Premptor Sholl? TO answer what I think was your question....

There are 3 Catholic affilliated universities in SA offering the traditional program of Bachelor degrees and master degrees and are accred. by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (Our reg. accred. body) They are St. Mary's Univerity, which has a LXA chapter, Our Lady of the Lake University (not really conducive to expansion, as there are no fraternites and only a few VERY smallsororoities, none of which are NPC I think) and there is University of the Incarnate Word, which had an interst group for LXA in Spring of 2002 and an ELC visited with them and 2 peeps showed up to the meeting, so I dotn think it was deemed fruitful. They recently added 1 NPC sorority and have no NIC fraternities. We will see.

I still say U of Houston or Sam Houston State.

Tom Earp · #66 09-26-2003, 08:51 AM

Lifesaver, Incarnate Word was the one I was refering to!

Jono, could explain this a little better as he informed me about it!

JonoBN41 · #67 09-26-2003, 06:43 PM

Yes, from what I'm told we are presenting at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio in October against Pike and Kappa Sigma. Delta Phi Epsilon is presenting there next week and their competition Theta Phi Alpha, presented two weeks ago. ASA is the only NPC group. Chi Phi has a colony. The enrollment there seems to be around 3,600.

jonsagara · #68 09-29-2003, 04:25 PM

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Originally posted by LXAAlum
I'd like to see Gamma Pi (Colorado State) return as soon as possible, but, not until the poisonous atmosphere regarding greeks is fixed. The university president is retiring, which will be of great benefit to greek expansion. He oversaw the literal gutting of the greek system over the last decade.

What exactly happened? 7 or 8 years ago, they were a strong chapter, weren't they?

LXAAlum · #69 10-01-2003, 02:33 PM

I was chapter advisor there about 7 - 8 years ago - great group of guys - I resigned in 98 due to work and family demands.

Gamma Pi got caught up in a bad PR situation. Apparently, a girl accused some members of supplying her with GHB at a party. Made it to the TV news. No way to get around it. The PR was so bad that there really was no alternative but to close - add to that the anti-greek administration in office, and yet another house made it to the closed list.

The GHB came from another fraternity house party she attended, and unfortunately they have a reputation for doing that - but have never been caught.

LXA should be returning in another year or so - they still own the house (free and clear, BTW).

jonsagara · #70 10-01-2003, 02:48 PM

That stinks!

On another note, I am applying to Colorado State for a second baccalaureate, so I may be in FC in a year or two to lend hand.

lifesaver · #71 10-15-2003, 03:43 AM

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Originally posted by JonoBN41
Yes, from what I'm told we are presenting at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio in October against Pike and Kappa Sigma. Delta Phi Epsilon is presenting there next week and their competition Theta Phi Alpha, presented two weeks ago. ASA is the only NPC group. Chi Phi has a colony. The enrollment there seems to be around 3,600.

I nee dto do some investigating about this. If this is the case, I need to bring it up toi the board of the San Antonio Alumni Association as their future High Pi has a sea ton our Board of Directors under the structure of our constitution.

On a side note, It would be cool, becasue SA would be one of a handful of cities with 3 or more LXA chapters in the same city.

lenoxxx · #72 10-24-2003, 04:11 PM

My Crystal Ball tells me we will be expanding to

Texas A&M International Campus

Lenoxxx

lifesaver · #73 10-24-2003, 06:47 PM

Lenoxx, I PM'd you. Please respond asap regarding TAMUIC. Thanks.

We have an alumni event this weekend and I'd like to discuss there with other alums.

john1082 · #74 10-24-2003, 08:08 PM

Is that in McAllen or Brownsville? I'd swear I saw the campus once, but I have no clue where it was.

lifesaver · #75 10-25-2003, 04:24 AM

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Originally posted by john1082
Is that in McAllen or Brownsville? I'd swear I saw the campus once, but I have no clue where it was.

Laredo, Texas.

UT- Pan American, Or more commonly, UT-PanAm is in Brownsville. Used to be known as Texas Southmost College. It's actually where most people park when they want to walk acros the border and go to Mexico.