What Chapter's have you visited?

[JoinerLxa]

This is from memory...I might forget one (especially any
closed/not listed on HQ's web site)

*Georgetown
*Kentucky
*Western Kentucky
*Murray State
Eastern Kentucky (no house but attended events)

*Vanderbilt
*Sewanee (Univ of the South)
East Tennessee State (K Chesney era)
Tennessee
Union (TN)

Butler (Drive-by, nobody home)
Indiana
Franklin
Purdue
DePauw (nobody home--not on HQ's chapter list...closed now?)
Ball State

Auburn
Georgia Tech
New Orleans
North Carolina - Charlotte

Colordo - Boulder
Denver
Colorodo State (in Ft. Collins, right?)
Western/Northern/Eastern? Colo?? (chapter just closed when I visited about 1990)...it was south and east of Ft. Collins,
north and east of Boulder.

San Diego State
Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo (drive by)

HQ - Indianapolis (*2004 GA)

* - where I've seen initiation

That's all I can remember...may edit later

[john1082]

Berkeley
Univ of Nevada Reno
UC Davis
Cal State Sacramento
Cal Poly SLO
Fresno
UC Santa Barbara
USC
Cal State Northridge
Cal State Los Angeles
UCLA
Cal State Fullerton
Cal State San Diego (aka San Diego State)
Univ of Nevada Las Vegas
Arizona State
Univ of Arizona
New Mexico State
Denver
Univ of Colorado
Colorado State
South Dakota
South Dakota State
North Dakota
Texas Tech
Texas Christian
SMU
Texas Weslyan
North Texas State
West Texas State
Texas
Kingsville (?) Somewhere in South Texas)
George Washington
Towson
Univ of Maryland, Baltimore
Univ of Maryland
Ohio State
Kansas

And no, I ws never a staff member.

[docroc67]

Greetings,

Here is my list:

Miami University (Oxford); My Zeta
Indiana University
Hanover College
U. of Cincinnati
Wittenberg University
U. of Dayton (helped start this one!) Now closed.
Ohio State University (Drive by- no one home)
Butler University
U. of Kentucky
MIT, down the street from,
Boston University (now a womens Dorm!)
U. of Michigan (Drive by-no one home)
Eastern Michigan University
Ohio University
Ball State University
Colby -Saw former Chapter House; Forced Closed by an Administration that does not recognize our fundamental right to free association and assembly -shame on them!)

and,

Swansee, Ma. -Birthplace of Founder Warren A. Cole - Found his Family Plot, but no Warren! Anybody know where he is buried?

Yours in ZAX,
Mike Raymond, ZU-Z

[lenoxxx]

Mike dont you find it ironic that at an ultra liberal college that would most likely "claim" to fight for the rights of all people (minorities, women etc.) they will take a shit on a greek organization because it is different, and like you said eliminate the right to assembly.

Ah the Hypocrisy

Jason Lenox

[JoinerLxa]

Colby is an ultra-liberal college?? I know its a historically
Baptist institution....ultra-liberal Baptists....I guess everyone
has to fit somewhere!

Its especially sad that Colby was the home of the Alpha,
Beta and Gamma chapters of Sigma Kappa.

[LXAAlum]

Originally posted by JoinerLxa
This is from memory...I might forget one (especially any
closed/not listed on HQ's web site)
Western/Northern/Eastern? Colo?? (chapter just closed when I visited about 1990)...it was south and east of Ft. Collins,
north and east of Boulder.


That's all I can remember...may edit later

That would be Northern Colorado - in Greeley - let's see, that would have been the green chapter house, with a row of townhouses behind it - that was the final location of the original UNC chapter, which was closed in August 1989 (the UNC chapter had an unfortunate tradition of moving almost every semester - mainly a good thing as the chapter kept outgrowing each location, but hard to keep up with!). We were right next to the Sigma Chi house. However, that ENTIRE block of houses is now a beautifully landscaped parking lot!

I was glad to see that house razed. It was the house that I returned to after two years away from college in the Navy - my first day back to the house upon returning to school is burned forever in my brain. I walked in, expecting to attend a rush committee meeting, only to be met by the founding father, and a representative from IHQ, who were holding an emergency meeting. This was the meeting where it was announced the chapter/colony was being closed permanently. What a homecoming. I spent an hour running composites, the crest, and several other chapter items to my apartment, to keep them from being destroyed by members - very upset at the chapter's closing.

UNC recolonized and rechartered at UNC in 2000 and 2004, respectively.

[lenoxxx]

You know I cant say for sure that Colby is ultra liberal, however I dont think there are many Non Liberal Private Colleges in the north east so I just assumed.


Lenoxxx

[JoinerLxa]

re: Colby -

I think it was Colby's conservatism that banished
GLOs....tired of alcohol abuse and un-Christian behaviour
at the campus. Maybe one day they will let them come back,
but its been a LONG TIME so I doubt it.

re: UNColorado -

Greeley, that was the town! I didn't get in town until after
dark, and never found the house (Im sure it wasn't marked).
I stopped by another fraternity house in the neighborhood...
Sigma Something....prolly Sigma Chi....they were very hospitable.

They told me the chapter had been closed, but they all knew
one former Lambda Chi who was still on campus. We tried
to call him, but he wasn't home. So I drove on to Boulder
where I was staying.

I looked up the date in my Paed: 11/9/1990...that
"one last 'good' Lambda Chi" wasn't YOU, was it??? What
a coincidence if it was!

Kevin

[boz130]

Doh! I forgot that I also visited Arizona State about 2 months after the incident that eventually closed them down. My in-laws live in Mesa & my bride & I were visiting during spring training.

[LXAAlum]

Originally posted by JoinerLxa
re: Colby -

I think it was Colby's conservatism that banished
GLOs....tired of alcohol abuse and un-Christian behaviour
at the campus. Maybe one day they will let them come back,
but its been a LONG TIME so I doubt it.

re: UNColorado -

Greeley, that was the town! I didn't get in town until after
dark, and never found the house (Im sure it wasn't marked).
I stopped by another fraternity house in the neighborhood...
Sigma Something....prolly Sigma Chi....they were very hospitable.

They told me the chapter had been closed, but they all knew
one former Lambda Chi who was still on campus. We tried
to call him, but he wasn't home. So I drove on to Boulder
where I was staying.

I looked up the date in my Paed: 11/9/1990...that
"one last 'good' Lambda Chi" wasn't YOU, was it??? What
a coincidence if it was!

Kevin

It might very well have been. Actually in 1990, there were a fair number of us left on campus - but, by 1993, when I graduated with my Master's, I believe I was the last to still be in school.

If you talked to Sigma Chi's, then yes, it was me. I was good friends with several of those guys, and even got a bid from them, DX, and LXA when I rushed. Of course I made the correct decision, but stayed friends, even to this day. One of them was a huge help in getting a key promotion at a local call center many moons ago.

If it was Sigma Pi, then they were referring to someone else from LXA that I did not want to consider a brother....let's just say back in those days the SP boys used a certain LXA brother as a "connection" for recreational pharmaceuticals...he was well known on campus, much to our detriment.

Problem in determining which Sigma "X" you visited is that both houses were white in color. Sigma Pi's house has large columns on the front, and a neon sign at the top of the house. Sigma Chi, smaller house, no columns, and always displayed their Norman Cross badge above the house. Sigma Chi has moved several times since then, Sigma Pi is still in their same house.

I hope it was Sigma Chi...truly a "small world" kind of moment!

[JoinerLxa]

The only other detail I remember is that the house was white
(clapboard), alota trees around, and VERY LARGE greek letters
(maybe 5-7 feet tall) on the side (or perhaps the front), arranged diagonally. I think that was the side of the house, and I
don't remember the front. Certainly don't remember any NEON.

I do think it was on a corner though...
and may NOT have been a close neighbor of the old LXA house
(after driving round and round, I saw the big greek letters
and stopped). SAE?? SPhE?? oh well....too bad I didn't find
you anyway

Kevin

[LXAAlum]

Originally posted by JoinerLxa
The only other detail I remember is that the house was white
(clapboard), alota trees around, and VERY LARGE greek letters
(maybe 5-7 feet tall) on the side (or perhaps the front), arranged diagonally. I think that was the side of the house, and I
don't remember the front. Certainly don't remember any NEON.

I do think it was on a corner though...
and may NOT have been a close neighbor of the old LXA house
(after driving round and round, I saw the big greek letters
and stopped). SAE?? SPhE?? oh well....too bad I didn't find
you anyway
Kevin

AhA! Got it. That was the old Sigma Phi Epsilon location. The house used to be white, now it's gray. A lot of student's call this the "Transient Frat" House, because, in the last 10 years, has been home to SigEp, TKE, Sigma Chi, and one other fraternity (short-lived, can't remember)...and Sig Ep and TKE occupied that house more than once...it seemed to change hands annually.

Last occupied by TKE in 2002, the chapter was closed when a police raid turned up a lot of stolen UNC computer equipment in a students room. Oops. Now (again, 3rd time?) it's Sigma Chi, and they really cleaned the place up.

Even though this house rotates fraternities a lot, LXA never occupied this house. However, interesting fact about LXA - in the last five years of the original chapter's existance, they occupied no less than 7 different properties, of which four have been demolished (some into parking lots, one other because of structural integrity - NO, the LXA's didn't create the mess, it was an old house).

When recolonized, LXA in their second year DID occupy one of the old houses, and found LXA graffiti in some hidden locations like closets, etc....autographs and the like of brothers I used to hang out with - very cool.

And, just last fall, by fate, I had a customer refinance a house they bought that was the LXA house I was initiated in. Way cool! However, when I saw what the house was worth, I wept...I always wanted to buy that house myself (not just sentimental reasons...the interior was gorgeous)...no way I could ever afford it. And, in the closets, where brothers (myself included) autographed their name and zeta numbers...they had been painted OVER....almost charged the owner an extra point on the loan for doing that.....grrr.....