Anyone know of any other current Kappa Sigma expansionary activity?

[stufield]

Thanks for the correction on the SHU location. I looked ion my Rand-McNAlly Road atlas and it appeared to me to be in Bridgeport. In fact, when I look again, it still does. But since I received your e-mail, I checked the school's website and it is indeed located in Fairfield. Interesting fact, tied in to you statement that it is a fairly large school: according to its website, SHU is the second largest Catholic university in New England. I assume that Boston College is the largest. It seems like a good school to be at. So hopefully our colony there will succeed.

CCSU may be a commuter school, but I know that Phi Delta Theta has an active chapter there. The Phi Delts are also one of several fraternities with active chapters at the University of Hartford. However, I also know that the Tekes had a chapter at CCSU,a and it closed. So the Phi Delt chapter there may or may not survive.

New Haven may also be a commute school, but Delta Chi has had a chapter there since 1981 and Sigma Chi has a chapter there as well. There are also a couple of locals.

We did have an interest group at Quinnipiac University at the beginning of the current school year (I believe it started late in the 2007-2008 school year), and I was informed by two different IMH sources that both it and Sacred Heart would be colonies before the end of 2008. Neither made it by then, but at least SHU is now a colony. I have made follow-up inquiries about the Quinnipiac group, but have not received a reply. So I don't know what is happening there.

No, unfortunately, there has been no UMass colony. There has been some talk of one in the past year or two, as the UMass administration is now actively supportive of fraternities and looking to expand the school's Greek system back to what it once was. Several fraternities closed their chapters there in the last couple of decades, but several have also returned. Unfortunately, Kappa Sigma is not one of them ... I would like to add a "yet" to that, but as I have stated on several other posts, the Fraternity is not proactive in targeting desirable schools and attempting to establish colonies there. So who knows when we might return there. I did hear that we had a small interest group there last school year. But it obviously did not develop into anything substantive.

Where are you going to law school?

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by stufield

Thanks for the correction on the SHU location. I looked ion my Rand-McNAlly Road atlas and it appeared to me to be in Bridgeport. In fact, when I look again, it still does. But since I received your e-mail, I checked the school's website and it is indeed located in Fairfield. Interesting fact, tied in to you statement that it is a fairly large school: according to its website, SHU is the second largest Catholic university in New England. I assume that Boston College is the largest. It seems like a good school to be at. So hopefully our colony there will succeed.

CCSU may be a commuter school, but I know that Phi Delta Theta has an active chapter there. The Phi Delts are also one of several fraternities with active chapters at the University of Hartford. However, I also know that the Tekes had a chapter at CCSU,a and it closed. So the Phi Delt chapter there may or may not survive.

New Haven may also be a commute school, but Delta Chi has had a chapter there since 1981 and Sigma Chi has a chapter there as well. There are also a couple of locals.

We did have an interest group at Quinnipiac University at the beginning of the current school year (I believe it started late in the 2007-2008 school year), and I was informed by two different IMH sources that both it and Sacred Heart would be colonies before the end of 2008. Neither made it by then, but at least SHU is now a colony. I have made follow-up inquiries about the Quinnipiac group, but have not received a reply. So I don't know what is happening there.

No, unfortunately, there has been no UMass colony. There has been some talk of one in the past year or two, as the UMass administration is now actively supportive of fraternities and looking to expand the school's Greek system back to what it once was. Several fraternities closed their chapters there in the last couple of decades, but several have also returned. Unfortunately, Kappa Sigma is not one of them ... I would like to add a "yet" to that, but as I have stated on several other posts, the Fraternity is not proactive in targeting desirable schools and attempting to establish colonies there. So who knows when we might return there. I did hear that we had a small interest group there last school year. But it obviously did not develop into anything substantive.

Where are you going to law school?

I'm at law school in Connecticut.

You're correct, BC is the largest Catholic university in New England (and completely anti-Greek, for that matter).

I had heard about Greek orgs at CCSU, but just coming from my personal knowledge about schools, neither struck me as places where Greek life would flourish. If a Kappa Sigma chapter can start and thrive on either of those campuses, that's a situation where I wouldn't mind being completely wrong.

[chicostateksig]

Kappa Sigma to Return to UC-Davis

Dear Brother ,

I am excited to inform you that this fall, the Kappa Sigma Fraternity is looking to begin re-colonizing the Beta-Phi Chapter at UC-Davis

As a resident of California, we are hoping that you could help this cause by referring any student you know who might be attending the school and who would make a great Kappa Sigma Brother. We hope that you will consider friends from your hometown, your place of work, family, church or any other connections you may have to help us identify outstanding young men to be founding fathers of this historic chapter.

Kappa Sigma’s Area Recruitment Managers, Blake Baxter and Matt Rippetoe will be on campus in late February and March if there are any students you can put us in touch with please refer them to me. You can reach me at the below email/phone number should you have any potential rush guests we can speak with, or if you are interested in working with any of these future chapters as a volunteer alumnus advisor.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Fraternally and AEKDB,

Carl Reisch
Director of Recruitment and Expansion
Kappa Sigma Fraternity



Here is an email i got from HQ, Davis will come back this fall.