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VOLUME 135, ISSUE 8 • MONDAY, OCT. 13, 2008
Έλληνας (Greek) to me: part two of a two-part series
Greek Village halted Christine Nelson WASHBURN REVIEW Although a few Greek houses have experienced struggles throughout the past year, the remaining houses are standing strong and have decided not to move ahead with Washburn’s Greek Village Project. Back in 2006, a project was in the works to move the entire Greek community into one large complex, the new Greek Village, to be managed by the university. Fraternities and sororities would have left their historic homes behind, and group together in a new facility Washburn planned to build. “It was a combination of everything,” said Jessica Neumann, assistant director of Student Activities and Greek Life. She said every chapter on campus was at a different place with housing and finances. Also, because of so many different feelings on the topic, no agreement could be reached between Washburn and the Greek community. Clay Freeman, president of Delta Chi, said they never considered the project because of financial strains. Freeman said the university was requiring each Greek chapter to raise $1 million to fund the Greek Village. Without enough membership dues to fundthe project, it was out of the question for Delta Chi. Delta Chi, established at Washburn in 2005, is currently the only fraternity that does not have its own house. At one time, some members were renting a house off campus next to Varsity Blues, but it was not official housing. With 23 members, they are working to build numbers to eventually be able to purchase a house. Freeman said the only positive aspect he saw about the village was that it would be a brand new facility. It would offer competition to current residential living facilities at Washburn, such as the Living Learning Center. He said when students are shopping around at fraternities or sororities, they look at houses first, and then consider the prices and live-in policies. “If they are all the same, it detracts from the uniqueness of going Greek,” said Freeman. If the entire Greek community were in the same building and had the same membership fees, it wouldn’t matter which house students joined. They would be all too similar. “Houses should be separated,” said Freeman. He said when students join they want a place to call their own. Freeman said their lack of housing has been an advantage for recruiting members because if they had a house to support they would have to raise dues, as well as live-in fees. Neumann said the state of Greek life at Washburn is by no means facing a lot of challenges. A few houses have had bumps in the road, but the future looks bright.
Photo by Arissa Utemark, Washburn Review
Speaking to the people: Congresswoman Nancy Boyda was on campus Wednesday to address U.S. concerns and issues to interested Washburn attendees.
Boyda addresses military concerns ReAnne Utemark WASHBURN REVIEW
about exporting democracy and Americans being greeted as liberators. She thought something just didn’t make sense, she was worried about Congresswoman Nancy Boyda invading another sovereign country. did not want to talk about presidential She went to a protest and spoke out. “I was doing this because I felt politics during her speech, but she did speak about a major issue facing like we needed to stick with the job in front of us,” said Boyda, Americans in the election: referring to the conflicts the overstretching of the military. Boyda, a candidate POLITICAL before the war in Iraq. “Iraq ISSUES would be biting off more for the second congressional than we could chew.” district of Kansas, spoke She continued her speech after to a crowd gathered for a lunch discussion at noon last Wednesday at her election to Congress and as she learned more about limited nature of the International House. Boyda, a freshman representative military personnel and resources. She and current member of the Armed lamented the “corner we’ve backed Services Committee, first told ourselves into.” Boyda mentioned the surge and the audience how she became interested in running for the House discussed how that factored into her of Representatives. She said that the current military policy ideas. attitude toward the Iraq war in 2003 bothered her, including the rhetoric Please see BOYDA page A5
Crowd assembles for homecoming parade Richard Kelly WASHBURN REVIEW
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Village people: The possibility of a Greek village, pictured in the renderings above, has been in limbo primarily because of lack of interest from the majority of Greek organizations on campus. Potential locations focused on utilizing space around the Phi Delta Theta and Kappa Sigma houses on the east side of campus. Graphic by Travis Perry, Washburn Review
Fraternities, sororities and political campaigns were among the groups that created floats and were on hand Saturday morning for the annual Homecoming Parade. People lined the streets to witness the floats as they passed. Among the other groups on hand were the Washburn Student Social Work Association, the Lynn Jenkins Campaign, Sigma Alpha Iota, Alpha Delta, and even Washburn president Jerry Farley, who had his own place in the event. The floats began their trek around
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10:15 a.m., as the bright morning sun shone down on the float members and onlookers. The floats began in the KTWU parking lot and made their way around the entire campus. After heading north on MacVicar, the floats headed east down 17th street, before turning south on Washburn Avenue, and then heading back to the KTWU lot.
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