Frank Harrington
AW2019 - Registration Live!

Get ready for the Pi Chapter annual Alumni Weekend, to be held 26-28th, 2019! Hotel and registration details available.

AW2019 - Registration Live!
Frank Harrington
Deadline Approching for 2018 Fundraising ...

2018 Fundraising Campaign Deadline is approaching!

Deadline Approching for 2018 Fundraising Campaign
Alumni Weekend
Frank Harrington
Save the Date! Alumni Weekend 2017 - April ...

Get ready for the Pi Chapter Alumni Weekend to be held April 28-30th, 2017. See below for link to reserve your room at the Hilton Garden Inn at our discounted rate.

Josh McWilliam
Zeta Psi Presentation Room Inauguration

Pi Zetes at the Sunday Brunch inauguration of "Zeta Psi Presentation Room" in the Folsom Library. Design and build of the room funded by our $75,000 gift to RPI in honor of our 150th Anniversary last year.

Zeta Psi Presentation Room Inauguration
Josh McWilliam
John Spohn Retires as Elder Phi

After faithfully serving as elder Phi for over 8 years, John Spohn '81 has stepped down as elder Phi and will replace Rick Kasold '70 as chairman of the board. 

John Spohn Retires as Elder Phi

Elections!

Brothers, After a year plus serving as your Active president, I have passed the torch to Brother Mario Iacuone. He has graciously offered to step up with Joey Tripodo as the Alpha Phi. Another important change includes Brendan Farley as House Manager and Nick Keefe as Kitchen Manager. Sean Dempsey will continue to manage the money. The Greek letter officers have officially changed, and the other positions will be in effect starting next semester. Please continue to call on the past officers/positions for advice or updates.

The pledges are on schedule and are coming together well. There are currently nine pledges who are learning the ways of the house. We have some new neighbors and will continue to show positive interaction with them and the others (Thanks Greg).

In Tau Kappa Phi,

Dodds Anderson

A Note From Jeremy Colon

Hey Brothers, I had an idea for a business venture and I need enough market research data to compile some numbers and pitch it to potential investors. The website for the survey is www.smartgift.biz. You'll notice when you go to the site we mention that we're giving away a 16GB iPad 2. Not joking about that, we're literally going to pick a random person that took it and send them an iPad 2 as an incentive to take the survey.

If anyone wants some details on what I'm trying to do feel free to get in touch. Also, once you complete it there are some share buttons on the page you get redirected to. I would really appreciate it if you could post it on facebook, tweet it, etc. Lastly, you need to be registered on Facebook to take the survey. Hope everyone is doing well and hit me up if you're in Boston.

TKPhi,

Jeremy Colon

Beta Tau House Fire Update

Hi Brothers: You may or may not be aware that the Beta Tau House at Tulane was destroyed by a fire on Sunday morning.

The following is taken from an email from Will Woldenberg, VP of the Tulane Association of Zeta Psi:

I have never been more proud than to be associated with the Zeta Psi Fraternity as I am now.

On Monday afternoon, we set up an immediate checking account and PayPal to ensure that we could immediately help our seven (7) brothers who lost all of their possessions in the fire to rapidly resume their student lives.

We set a goal of raising $5,600 by October 24th. Within 48 hours of establishing our PayPal account we raised over $10,000 from the overwhelming support of more than 100 Zetes and our friends.

All of that money – every single dollar – will go those 7 brothers in need. With your donations, you have helped to change the lives of students whom many of you have never met. You’ve shown the Beta Tau Chapter that the bonds of brotherhood are greater than the wisps of familiarity.

It’s now time for the Elders and Actives of the Beta Tau Chapter to focus on the difficult task of rebuilding our home. The brothers of Zeta Psi have been instrumental in helping Beta Tau return from tragedy before - and in the spirit of brotherhood, we need your help again.

Instead of utilizing PayPal, please click on the following link, which will lead you to the donation page for the Tulane Zeta Psi Relief Fund.

https://giftwrap.data-agents.com/CampaignForm/ZetaPsi/Tulane

With a donation of only $25, you can help move closer to our overall goal of the estimated $30,000 that we need to rebuild our home.

If you would rather donate by check or any other method, please email Will Woldenberg at wwoldenb@gmail.com

Our chapter is resolute and dedicated. We are all driven by a single purpose. We will rebuild our house. Please lend us your support and help Beta Tau rebuild.

Sincerely and In Tau Kappa Phi,

Will Woldenberg Vice-President Tulane Association of Zeta Psi

What do you say Pi Zetes??? Let's give them some help!

Zete Occupies Occupying Wall Street

From an anonymous Pi Zete... try to use context clues to figure out who it is... Yesterday being just the right temp, and my NYC subway card needing a swipe before it gets cancelled for non-use, I took the E train from the Port Authority down to the WTC stop and walked the two blocks to the Occupy Wall Street encampment. Zuccotti Park was formerly that open area on Liberty Street a couple of blocks east of the (former) WTC South Tower. It's been fixed up with flower beds, a forest of small trees, and granite picnic tables and seats planted firmly. Now it's full of sleeping bags, bikes, and hippies. Lots of weirds that remind me of 1968. A few hardhats were there not to protest as much as to wait to see if any of the girls gyrating furiously to the drumming would get hot enough to take off their tops. No such luck, but the morning was still cool. Very crowded with people climbing over the bags, blankets, and piles of slogan cardboards. But all told not that much of a throng. Maybe 1,000 people at most and all tightly behind police barricades.

I looked first for the free food. It being between mealtimes, all I managed to pick up -- free all right -- was ample French bread, a small bag of Lays chips, and a nice apple. Also available was free literature in the library section -- the seeming clutter is unusually well organized by function. I picked up "Lenin's Legacy Today" for later perusal.

Munching the French bread on the sidelines (cops keep the participants and the growing number of touristic observers -- including school kid classes from the more progressive NYC places -- off the street and on the sidewalk), I found myself next to a young man holding up a cardboard sign saying something like "Let's Share Love." He had some wild flowers tucked behind his ear and a bunch in his hand ready for any takers. But he had diverted himself to be berating a couple of stoically non-responding cops for working for the oppressor and how could they sleep at night for doing so, etc. When the cops moved off, I couldn't resist asking this flower child who was paying for his stay in the park. Indignantly he said he had a master's degree and worked for a non-profit in Albany and earned his way there. I inquired where the non-profit got its money. This led fairly quickly to the main thesis of the activity: the voters are too dumb to pick a government they really need. I said that that sounded a bit Leninist to me to which I got the rejoinder, "Are you afraid of that?" I got bored and walked off before I ventured to say how unseemly it was for a puffed up, over-educated snot to taunt working folks like low-ranking police officers.

All this was rather as expected. On the way back to the subway station, which is just opposite the WTC site, I was shocked to see four girls fully chadored from head to toe with only Middle Eastern faces and hands visible having their picture taken by a fifth against the rising WTC replacement buildings. Each of the four was holding up both hands with fingers in the V for victory gesture. Who says many people in the world aren't proud of what happened 9/11?

Fall 2011 Pledge Class

The Fall 2011 Pledge Class has been finalized! These guys signed their bids last night and will soon begin pledging! Ryan Belbey Jarrett Boeglin Bryan Charette Arjun Chavern Brett Cutler William Dickie Joshua Dugas Brendan Jablonski James Jakobek Alexander Napheys

We would like to thank Arthur Chen '12 for his hard work during Recruitment and congratulate the Actives on putting together what we expect is another excellent Pledge Class. Most importantly, congratulations to our ten new Pledges!