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A is for Ambassador: Students serve as role models at WKU (WKUHerald - 2 September 2011)
Alvin Farmer (ΒΦ) was soon hired as a peer advisor in the Academic Advising and Retention Center, joined Phi Sigma Pi honors fraternity. Lastly, he applied to become a Spirit Master, a position that makes him an ambassador for WKU. As an ambassador, Farmer said he strives to hold all the values of the school along with his own.

Farming for a change (The Daily Campus - 2 September 2011)
The Lutz Children's Museum is located in a schoolhouse in Manchester, and is catered toward bolstering the knowledge of young children. Its exhibits are filled with historical artifacts and artistic displays that are changed on a regular basis. Faiella said that the current exhibit is a set up of downtown Manchester from the 1940s. Faiella has been getting help from UConn students as well, primarily from the Phi Sigma Pi (ΒΠ) and Alpha Phi Omega fraternities, she said.

Phi Sigma Pi chapter advisor receives national award (WKUNews - 10 August 2011)
David Serafini (ΒΦ), a history instructor at WKU, was honored with the Phi Sigma Pi 2011 Outstanding Chapter Advisor Award on Saturday at the Phi Sigma Pi National Banquet in Washington, D.C.

WKU students will travel to Joplin, Mo., June 26-27 to assist in tornado relief (WKUNews - 15 June 2011)
Students from WKU’s Beta Phi Chapter (ΒΦ) of the Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity will be heading to Joplin, Mo., on June 26-27 to volunteer in the wake of the May 22 tornado.

Karen’s Walk at RIT raises $1,800 for heart research (WHEC.com - 29 April 2011)
The event was sponsored by Phi Sigma Pi (ΔΑ) fraternity members, who have donated nearly $23,000 to raise awareness of and support research in postpartum cardiomyopathy, a rare disease of the heart muscle that develops in some women after childbirth. More than $1,800 was raised at the event to benefit the Karen Decker Research for Cardiomyopathy Fund at the University of Rochester Medical Center.