The Fall 1999 semester is where my memory for what happened with pledges joining and brothers graduating and/or leaving starts to get foggy. This is partly because we had had some pretty substantial pledge classes and some pretty significant graduating classes, and partly because I started having more and more activities and interests outside the ( Read more... )

Since I talked about my idyllic summer relaxing and playing video games, this seems like an apt time to highlight some of the many, many, many video games that were popular at the fraternity in my time there.

We were all hooked up to the incredibly fast CWRUNet and had our own computers, which meant that we all had access to endless file shares ( Read more... )

The summer of 1999 at the end of my junior year was the first time that I lived in the house over the summer. In 1997 I had lived at home and in 1998 I was on co-op in Kentucky. In 1999 I had no particular place to go, so I stayed in the house. I didn't even move from the spring, as I stayed in the Oval OfficeThere were no formal fraternity ( Read more... )

Because I was president of the fraternity in the spring 1999 semester, I qualified for one of our more random fraternity traditions. Ponding involved abducting the brother in question from the fraternity house and taking him down to the lagoon in front of the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he would be ceremonially thrown into the water ( Read more... )

I returned to the fraternity house in January 1999 after eight months on co-op. 8 months of weight lifting had gotten me into much better shape, I had plenty of money banked and my family had just returned from a week in New York City where I saw five Broadway shows. I moved into the Oval Office, which was fitting because I was President of the ( Read more... )

I turned 21 in the Fall 1998 semester, so this seems an apt time to talk about the various bars we hung out in during college. A few places came up in some of the commentary, but a more methodical summary might be fun ( Read more... )

At the end of my sophomore year, I was overwhelmed with stress and had lost my scholarship. A co-op seemed like a good idea to me. I procured a gig at Lexmark Printers in Lexington, Kentucky, through the power of nepotism - both my aunt and uncle worked there and hooked me up. Further, I was able to stay with my aunt and uncle in their house rent- ( Read more... )

Besides rush, the major event of the Greek Life calendar each year was Greek Week. This event happened every spring and involved a number of different competitive events throughout the week, culminating in a talent show that immediately led into an awards ceremony ( Read more... )

Spring 1998 was a lot like Fall 1997 for me personally. I was still living in the back of the Studio with Hsia in the front room. I still had an extraordinary amount of academic stress, as the weed out sophomore year continued with my scholarship on the line ( Read more... )

I got some entertaining comments on Facebook from my post about Chapter & Elections, which I'll summarize here for ease of reading. Our contributors include some returning commenters and some new folks:

- Ducar, Eli, Jackal & Susan return for more ( Read more... )