Pi Kappa Phi Welcomes New Members

The names of the Beta Epsilon pledge class are:

Daniel Becker-Freshman-Psychology/Business
David Brennan-Freshman-Undecided Engineering
Greg Evans-Freshman-Mechanical Engineering
Rob Gilbert-Freshman-Mechanical Engineering
Axel Pedregosa-Freshman-Actuarial Science
Andrew Puhr- Mechanical Engineering
Daniel Quitschau-Freshman-Market Economics
Eric Ross-Freshman-Elementary Education
Colin Willoughby-Freshman-Business Management
Tim Witthoft-Freshman-Mechanical Engineering

We welcome these new guys and hope to turn them into great leaders. We look forward to having them around and being a great new addition to the house. This semester looks to be a good one.

Start of Another Semester/Rush 2008

Another semester has begun. The guys in the house arrived back August 17^th to begin their work week, and for a lot of the guys it was their first work week. They added on to the deck between the house and College Hall. A fence was added between the fronts of the two houses and stairs were extended from the upper deck down to ground level. The new addition is planned on being used for grilling out and pool parties using the blow-up pool that was acquired over the summer.

The usual work week activities were also done such as touch up painting around the house and some yard work. After work week came welcome week, which started out with move in day. The brothers started the day bright and early at nine in the morning, helping all of the new students move in. The following days involved Taste of Bradley, Activities Fair, and Ribs for Cribs. The brothers worked on meeting potential new members at all of the activities.

Classes started the Wednesday after that, and all of the brothers got right down to business with all of their class of course. Most of the focus at the current time is Rush. During the summer, many of the brothers made contact with the incoming freshmen. They have been spending the time before Rush, and the current time, meeting with these prospectives, hoping to spark an interest in Pi Kappa Phi. Steve Evangelista, the current Vice Archon has been working hard to get a good size pledge class for the Fall Semester. The first round of Rush was this past Saturday and Sunday, September 6^th and 7^th. The round involved 20 minute rounds apiece. There were several alumni who came down to support the brothers for Rush. Dan Charleston, Paul Witt, Steve Haubner, Frank Rice, Jeff Puskarich, Mike Ferrer and Kent Fleming were the alumni that were able to make it down. Paul and Dan gave speeches to each of the groups of Rushees, while the other alumni were able talk with some of the potential new members. A lot of great guys were met and we are hoping to see a lot of them back second round. It would be great to see more Alumni down this upcoming weekend for second and third round.

The past weekend was a great time, and I’m sure that this next weekend will be the same, just ask any of the guys who made it down this past weekend. To let everyone know Second Round starts Friday September 12^thth at 3:00. Hope to see anyone who can make it down, meet up with some other alumni, have some fun, and support the actives during recruitment. at 3:00 each session will be forty minutes, and Third Round will start Saturday September 13