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Pi Kappa Alpha to return in Spring 2014 By CIDNIE CYDNEYBREWINGTON Staff Writer
Alumni of the Eta Tau Chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity (PIKE) plan to re-colonize by Spring 2014 after their chapter was closed in January 2010 due to an accumulation of $7,286.12 in debt to the national headquarters. Gregory Parker, media
contact for the Eta Tau Alumni Association, explained the reason for the debt as “a numbers game.” “House numbers got so small and the debt was getting too big. They are good guys; there are not enough of them,” Parker said. To re-colonize means before the Eta Tau chapter can re-establish, they must go through a trial period to
make sure national standards are upheld. “Then they can be established as a PIKE. Nothing is guaranteed, everything is earned,” said President of the Eta Tau Alumni Association, Luke Yaeger. Forty years worth of alumni are backing the re-colonization by forming committees to raise money and organize. “The alumni
are ready and active. We’ve been running and gunning ever since,” said Bill Gregoricus, first president of the fraternity before it became a chapter. Contrary to rumors, the Eta Tau Chapter was not suspended by the national organization in January 2010. The alumni closed the chapter themselves with the full intention of
re-colonization. “Closing the chapter was a strategic decision that the [Eta Tau] Alumni Association made. We decided that a temporary discontinuance of operations was in the best long term interest,” Yaeger said. “It’s good to have a lay-off. It gets rid of the stigmas. [It’s] a fresh start,” Parker said. “Even though we are silent,
we are not dead.” “[We want to] silence [the rumor], reorganize, and come back strong,” the first president of the established Eta Tau Chapter, Tom Mik said. TAS
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Fraternity and sorority recruitment on the rise By BRIAN BIGELOW Assistant News Editor
Almost 5 percent of APSU students are members of a fraternity or sorority. APSU is home to 10 fraternities and six sororities, not including greek-lettered academic organizations on campus. Each fraternity and sorority is governed by a council and overseen by a corresponding national organization. These include the Pan-Hellenic (PC), Interfraternity (IFC), and National Pan-Hellenic (NPHC) councils. “Most [new members] are freshmen for IFC and PC organizations, but most NPHC organizations traditionally do not take students classified by credit hours as freshmen,” said Brianna Lombardozzi, the
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APSU Coordinator of Greek Life. “For Fall 2010, 33 percent of new members were classified as a sophomore or higher based on their earned credit hours.” In general, fraternities and sororities receive the most new recruits during the fall semester. Recruitment numbers tend to drop during the fall from around 150 new Greek members to 50 during the spring. According to the fraternity and sorority academic reports for each semester, there have been more female undergraduate students enrolled in APSU during every semester since spring 2007, sometimes exceeding the number of male students by more than a thousand. But there have been more fraternity members than
total fraternity members new fraternity members total sorority members new sorority members
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sorority members for the past six semesters. Some fraternities and sororities are looking to establish, or re-establish, chapters at APSU.
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“Phi Gamma Delta will colonize in spring 2012 and Pi Kappa Alpha will re-colonize in spring 2014,” Lombardozzi said. “For [the Panhellenic Council],
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we are currently reviewing organizations and one will colonize in fall 2011. Four sororities will present to campus for review at the end of February [or] beginning
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of March.” Pi Kappa Alpha was suspended in 2010, before the beginning of the spring semester, for owing money to the national chapter. TAS
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