tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447031548276454480.post1439251780478456035..comments2014-11-03T09:25:43.142-08:00Comments on Sigma Nu SDSU: Why Build a Rock Chapter?Sigma Nu - Eta Kappahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13108630996835388490noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447031548276454480.post-68603207866406229512014-10-17T13:21:14.436-07:002014-10-17T13:21:14.436-07:00Everything Jim Stark wrote is true. Times have cha...Everything Jim Stark wrote is true. Times have changed and with that the fraternity scene has changed whether one is referencing Sigma Nu Fraternity, Inc. or SDSU. At some point over the years SDSU created a Greek Life Department and began the process of attempted micromanagement of fraternities and sororities. Today we have people employed by SDSU who earn their living by monitoring fraternities and sororities and enforcing a variety of requirements that Greeks must meet. <br /><br />The Greek Life department isn’t a bad thing. It is an oversight process that many of us did not have while we were in college. Greek Life grades fraternities and sororities in accordance with their participation in various activities that Greek Life advocates for them such as philanthropic activities. We will be learning more of the details of this process as we move forward toward the reestablishment of our active chapter. For old timers like me, the tight control SDSU exercises over fraternity rush amazes me. <br /><br />Some alumni like myself who are old dogs will have to learn new tricks if we are to mentor and guide the young men of our chapter. Sigma Nu was and is a piece of gold in my life and I hope it was in yours too. <br /><br />Today so many of our alumni brothers are enmeshed in careers and family that they may forget about Sigma Nu which is, indeed, a loss for them and the rest of us. Sigma Nu is for Life, not just college! We all have our fond and not so fond memories of our collegiate days and our collegiate Sigma Nu experience. Today we need many alumni brothers to step up and support the effort to return Eta Kappa to SDSU. <br />I will never forget the late afternoon of December 7, 1960, when a man in his 60s wearing a gray suit arrived at our little rented fraternity house on Stanley Avenue a mile away from SDSU. He was Dr. Edward Hashinger, the retired Dean of the Medical School at Kansas and a former Regent of Sigma Nu Fraternity. He sold us that afternoon and he used his contacts to help us which culminated in the events of February 23, 1963 and especially our initiation! It was a proud moment for us and if we do things effectively and honestly now, there will be a second time that a group of young men receive the honor of being re-founders of a chapter of Sigma Nu Fraternity. It is ironic that the first young man to be initiated will be HK 1,000! There is a lot of history between HK 1 and HK 1,000 and I look forward to the day that number 1,000 will become a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity for LIFE! <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com