From The “AA”

A Call to Action

By Steven P. Bossart, “AA”

Inside The Quarterly

Volume 103 Number 1 Spring/Summer 2006

2 From The “AA” 3 From the Exec. Director 4-5 Cover Story 6-12 Featurettes 15 Keeping in Touch 15 Farewell & Parting

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Please Help Delta Chi Save Money!

If you would like to receive the Quarterly electronically instead of in paper format, email HQ@deltachi.org and let us know. This will save Delta Chi both printing and postage costs. I have just returned from the North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) Annual Meeting, where we spent an entire day on Capitol Hill lobbying members of Congress to support the Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act (H.R. 1548/S.713). This is an important piece of legislation for the fraternity and sorority movement, and we need your help to get it passed.

The legislation seeks tax parity for our members. As it stands now, I can make a donation for a dorm at my alma mater, and it would be fully tax deductible. If I make the same gift to the fraternity house, it is not. Students live in both places. So what is the difference?

College communities nationwide such as State College (home to Penn State University) and Ames (home to Iowa State University) have passed ordinances mandating the installation of fi re sprinklers and other life safety equipment in all collegiate housing. Unfortunately, current tax law prevents most fraternities and sororities from raising the money needed to make these improvements, which can cost as much as $200,000 per house. Without a change in the tax law, many of these fraternity houses will close, and some host institutions lack the fi nancial ability to build other housing for the impacted students.

Passing the Collegiate House and Infrastructure Act would:

• Encourage new charitable contributions to improve current collegiate housing,

thereby preserving and upgrading existing housing capacity and helping construct the new housing capacity needed to accommodate rapidly growing student populations. • Result in safer student housing by enabling fraternities and sororities to fund the installation of modern life safety equipment such as fi re sprinklers, smoke detectors, and alarm systems.

• Promote a private sector solution to protect and preserve public investments in higher education institutions and the students themselves.

Please, take a moment to write to your Congressional representatives in both the House and the Senate and ask them to co-sponsor the bill. We left Washington with over 100 bipartisan co-sponsors in the House and 18 bipartisan sponsors in the Senate. We need more. For contact information on your representatives, please go to www.house.gov for the House of Representatives and www.senate.gov for the Senate.

I am asking for your help for legislation that is extremely important for Delta Chi. Please take 20 minutes to write. When you write your representatives, please fax a copy of the letter to Delta Chi at (319) 337-5529 so that we can integrate your efforts into a much larger one.

Thank you for your support of Delta Chi and the Greek world.

Fraternally,

Steven P. Bossart, “AA” Kent State ’90