The Iota Kappan
Chartering Banquet
The day after our initiation, November 12th, 2011, our chartering
banquet was held at a local restaurant with a large ballroom named
Zoe’s. The banquet included a great-tasting array of pastas and salad, an
amazing speech given by our president at the time, Kevin Schoewe, a
custom rendition of The Rose delivered by our four sweethearts, and a
delivery speech of our charter by our two charting officers Frank Parrish
and T.J. Sullivan. That night was unlike any other because of the love
that was shown between everyone from the hard work every single person put in to get to this point. Everyone involved with obtaining our
charter from the national office and becoming the Iota Kappa Chapter of
Pi Kappa Phi was in attendance and it would not have been the same
without every one of them there.
The Start of it All
The national office came out to UNC in the fall of 2010 to start
their expansion on our campus. After many rounds of
presentations and handing out bids, there were eighteen
committed members of the Associate Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi.
We moved into our first chapter house in June of 2011 and that
really started it all in terms of coming together as a real
fraternity with a common meeting area. The men who stayed in
Greeley over summer worked very hard to make the best
looking letters on this campus and we are so proud of them!
FALL RECRUITMENT
Fall recruitment was something that our
chartering status of our chapter was hinging on.
We needed a good amount of quality members
who are to be devoted to the fraternity. This is
the first time we have ever done a real rush
week so everything was improvised as we went
along. Rush events included Vas-o-melon
(capture the flag with a greased up
watermelon), a poker night, a game of football,
s’mores by our fire pit, and an invite only spaghetti dinner. Apparently our quirky
combination of competitive spirit and friendly
attitudes is a great mix to bring a heap of
amazing guys. Twenty-seven to be exact! When
November 11th came around we initiated
twenty-four of the fall Mixson class along with
seventeen members from fall and spring of
2010 and 2011. All forty-one members were
initiated by the Zeta Phi chapter, Colorado
State University in Fort Collins.
VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1
Our First Chapter House
1031 20th Street Greeley, Colorado, 80631 WWW.UNCOPIKAPPS.COM
PI KAPPA PHI, IOTA KAPPA
APRIL 2012
Push America
First Annual Date Auction
On February 13th, 2012 The Iota Kappa chapter held their first ever Date Auction where our gentleman were auctioned off for dates such as going to the Museum of Nature and Science, Dinner and a Movie, to a trip to the Denver Zoo, to a Girl’s Night style sleepover (from one of the more gender friendly members), or even just a cleaning day for the girls who need a little TLC in their chapter houses. Our goal going into the night was roughly $450 because we had no idea what to expect considering it was our first time we have done this event.
The night started off with the first “Item for Sale”, Kyle Norman, going for $45 and needless to say we were all pretty excited about that. The next line of men went for anywhere between $35 to $75 and the room was getting wild. The first intermission had a performance from our very own a capella that is named “Freaks and Greeks”. They performed the timeless hit, “I Want it that Way” by The Backstreet Boys to a tee. The night went on and a few members went for $80 and $90 but we couldn’t seem to break the $100 threshold until one of our most well-known members went up with his date being Bazookas (an infamous
drink widely known in the Greeley community). There was a bidding war between two beautiful ladies and the winner was our gorgeous senior sweetheart, Krystal Duff, winning with a final bid of $210! She seemed to set the bar at an unreal height because the last ten or so members all went for over $150! The highest price for a final bid went to Matt Scott, a new member, and he went for $350 for a trip to the Denver Zoo to see the penguins and a Dinner at the winner’s choice. After some calculator math from the cash payments and credit card payments, the final tally was counted. We made just over $3500 that
went directly to Push America. Our first Date Auction was decided to be an annual thing every spring semester due to its extreme success!
In late April 2012, we are partnering with an organization on campus named Best Buddies. Best Buddies partners people with disabilities with a citizen in the community and basically be their best buddy. We are cosponsoring a 70’s style sock hop dance in the ballrooms on campus and inviting everyone around to hopefully make that night a night they will never forget! While this is not a Push sponsored event, all of the proceeds will go directly to Push America!
BEST BUDDIES SOCK HOP DANCE
PEDAL FOR PUSH
In early October, the crazy men of the chapter
heard about a Push America awareness event
where a chapter rode bikes for an entire day.
We have always had a one-up type attitude so
we decided to ride two bikes for five days straight! That is 120 hours per bike, so we rode
for a total of 240 hours in two, three, and some
insane cases rode, six hours shifts. We rode
through the night and had our own little camp
site outside of the University Center with
various visitors coming to support us in the wee
hours of the night. This event was ultimately
for pure awareness but donations are always
accepted and we ended up making about $300
in donations from interested bystanders. We
managed to not stop once from switching
riders, rigs falling apart, intense winds, and tired bodies. All in all, this event was nothing
short of a success in getting our vision to aid
people with disabilities by using our abilities to
raise awareness!
Winning, it’s What We Do
Intramural Champions For the eighteen or so months we have been on campus, we have been
involved with one season of Flag Football and two seasons of
Basketball. We are undefeated in all three seasons of the two sports
bringing home three championships. The Flag Football championship ended up being our Pi Kapp A-team versus our Pi Kapp B-team. Two
years in a row, we played Sigma Chi in the basketball championships.
Spring of 2012, we came back from an 8 point deficit with about a
minute of regulation left to tie the game. We ended up winning the game
in overtime with a final score of 42-33 bringing home back-to-back
championships. Basketball this year was much more of a challenge
because one of our premier three point shooters, David Burkel, tore his
ACL playing football in October. That called for Zach Peterson to step
up and become our LeBron in combination with Matt Loranger being
our D-Wade.
1031 20th Street Greeley, Colorado, 80631 WWW.UNCOPIKAPPS.COM
PI KAPPA PHI, IOTA KAPPA
LETTER FROM THE ARCHON
Greetings,
It is a great honor to be able to
write the first letter from the president to all
the parents and followers of Pi Kappa Phi
here at UNC. It has been an amazing year
and a half since we were installed, and we’ve
been growing and accomplishing great things
ever since. Let me start by recapping some of
our accomplishments in the last 18 months.
We’ve raised over $5,000 for Push
America, including a date auction that raised
over $3,500 by itself. We can’t help it that
we’re just some incredibly good-looking
guys! We also created an event called Pedal
4 Push, in which two brothers continually
rode a bicycle for 120 consecutive hours
totaling over 4000miles. This event won the
award for most creative philanthropy event at
the UNC Greek Awards ceremony last week.
Moving forward, I am very
excited about the direction this fraternity is
taking. We are making great strides with
recruitment, and we are putting in the
necessary effort to get our academics on the
same level as other things we excel in.
I would like to say thank you for
the amazing support we have received from
you all, and we will work to continue to be
the same fraternity that you see right now.
Sincerely,
Charlie Charbonneau
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