2014 Delta Chi Chapter History

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Spring

Recruitment: Alpha Betas

We began the semester with information sessions and meeting all of the potential rushes! This was a very exciting time meeting so many new friends. The information sessions went well with bros and potentials interacting and staying for over an hour to talk and bond. During rush week Sarah did an amazing job holding three events: Bookmarks for Teach for America, Disney Trivia, and Mocktails. At the Teach for America Bookmarks event, the brothers and recruits watched a short video about what Teach for America is and its positive impact on classrooms nationwide. They also learned about Phi Sigma Pi’s involvement with the philanthropy, including an alternative spring break trip during which PSP brothers built a playground for a public school. After that, brothers and recruits mingled while decorating bookmarks to donate to Teach for America classrooms in Philadelphia. Many of the book- marks were adorned with gems, ribbons, motivational phrases about reading, and quotes from popular novels. Everyone in attendance had a great time meeting each other and learning about PSP’s national philanthropy. The next recruitment event, Disney Trivia, featured a fun and competitive game that fit into the scholarship leg of the tripod. Brothers and recruits were organized into seven large teams. Team members introduced themselves to each other, shared fun facts, and collectively decided on team names. The group played the game Jeopardy style, and three brothers moder- ated the activity. After the first game, there was time to quickly play another one. Brothers switched teams to meet more recruits. The teams responded positively to the final Jeopardy question, “What is Alice Gast’s middle name?” even though it was not Disney related. Delta Chi had a lot of fun with this new event, and we will probably repeat it in semesters to come. Finally, Mocktails ended the week. This event had mock cocktails and cookies and was really just an opportunity to get rushes and bros talking. After a be- ginning introduction period we played games such as Train- wreck. This was a really great way to learn interesting facts about the rushes and get to know them better. This also gave them an opportunity to find brothers with which they had things in common.

Pref week kicked off with a delicious ice cream social event! Due to the multiple (and unprecedented!) snow days that week many events had to be rescheduled, but the Chapter was able to work around it. Brothers and Prefs chatted while enjoying chocolate and vanilla ice cream. Yum! The middle event of Pref week was balloon animals where bros and prefs learned to make shapes out of balloons. A few of the prefs even took the time to spell out PSP with balloons! Pref week ended with Teambuilders including stations of charades, TANK, and event planning. There was a lot of excitement and laughter by all involved and a great way to end an amazing week with the prefs.

House Cup

This semester the Eboard decided to re-implement the House Cup with a new twist, the “Minute to Win It” challenge! Each Chapter meeting, the four houses have one minute to complete and win a challenge in order to win extra House Points. For any- one unfamiliar with the House Cup, it is a semester-long contest designed to emulate the Hogwarts House Cup award, with all of the Brothers split equally among four houses named after Phi Sigma Pi’s founders. Fall 2013’s winning House was the Woodcocks. The brothers decided to take the $200 allotted dollars and take a field trip to Revolutions. We tried to accommodate all brothers by doing so during finals week in December – however, we were snowed out. The second date we planned for was snowed out as well, but finally on February 9th the Woodcocks enjoyed bowling, a lot of food, and some really awe- some fellowship! We were honored to win the Housecup and look forward to participating again this semester. This semester the teams are the Torchia Pterodactyls, the Hendericks Hippos, the Wood Wallabies, and the McClure McCaws.

Fall

Delta Chi Kickball

On the weekend of October 18th-19th , Brothers in Phi Sigma Pi from all over the East Coast came to Lehigh University to take part of Delta Chi Kickball. A bulk of the bros from Lehigh’s chapter along with bros from Villanova, East Carolina, and East Stoudsburg met on Friday night and got ready for the Frat Star- themed weekend by watching Animal House. Early Saturday morning, all the bros met on the grassy fields, ready for some competitive kickball. They were split into four teams: Luau, Mardi Gras, Team America, and Tight and Bright and pitted against each other in a round-robin tournament. The day was long, the catered lunch was good, and after 2 games each, Team Luau stood on top. Everyone decided that instead of a playoff round, that there should be one large game pitting Lehigh’s ICR chairs and event organizers, Kristen Schmidt and myself, against one another as captains. It was a close and competitive game, but Kristen’s team won it all with an 8th inning rally that broke the long-standing tie. Though kickball had ended, Delta Chi’s event had not quite ended. The PSP brothers bussed over to Revolutions, an adult arcade place, to have some fun. The brothers enjoyed bowling, pizza, and tons of arcade games for hours until the night’s end. Thus the weekend was over but the memories for those who attended will last a lifetime. Coming from a brother who helped plan this, Delta Chi Kickball was a great success even though we had a lower turnout than expected since it made me feel part of a bigger and yet just as inclusive brotherhood than the one I have in Delta Chi. I really got a sense of what being a national fraternity was all about, and no matter where a Brother was from, Lehigh brothers treated them just the same as they would their own brother.

-Written by Joe Palombo

Ad Hoc

Ad Hoc! What a wonderful event that was! Ad Hoc took place on Friday October 24th at Raub’s Farm Market in Easton, PA. The event started with brothers purchasing apple cider and caramel apples! What a delightful snack before the three hour journey that awaits. After the snacks were consumed, brothers decided to start their journey through the extremely large corn maze. The corn maze consisted of 10 different location points that were almost impossible to find. Fortunately, brothers of the Delta Chi Chapter were triumphant in finding almost all of the locations thanks to the great communication and teamwork skills demonstrated by all brothers in attendance. All in all, the caramel apples, the strange looking pumpkins, and the corn, we had a wonderful time fulfilling the tripod PSP embodies.

-Written by Vincent Tung