The Chapter is pleased to announce that the Winter 2008 Rush week has proven very successful, at least 18 perspective members came to our events this week! 8 People came to tonight's wrap-up Info night, despite forecasts of up to a foot of snow overnight and into tomorrow. Don't count on classes being cancelled through...Eastern Michigan hasnt closed for a snow day in two years!!!

Its that exciting time of the semester again, as classes resume and everyone gets back in their groove, and Phi Sigma Pi's RUSH week is now less than two weeks away! Come learn more about one of Eastern Michigan University's leading organizations! If you have at least a 3.0 GPA and have taken 12 credit hours, we'd love for you to come to one or more of our RUSH week events this week!!!

Here are the details on the events planned for this semester's Rush Week:

Monday, January 28th : We'll be meeting in the EMU Student Center in room 352, from 6 to 9 pm! Games, Free food and beverages will be available, and you'll have your first chance to mix and mingle with the Brothers this semester! Come and learn what Phi Sigma Pi is all about and have some great fun!!!! We hope to see you there!

Where: Room 352 EMU Student Center
When: Monday, January 28 from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm

On Tuesday, January 29th:
We will be having a Billiards Tournament at the Rec/IM on the third floor, all are welcome to come and play...there will be prizes for the winner(s)!!!
When: Tuesday, January 29 from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm, please contact Patrice, our Rush/PR Chair, via facebook.com, or use the contact us form on the website if you would like additional information.

Wednesday, January 30th Wednesday will be the Madden Tournament, which was very popular last semester, it will be held in the REC/IM on the first floor this semester, from 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm, so come and get your game on!!!

Thursday, January 31st Thursday is the final Info night for RUSH week, and will be held in Room 352 of the "New" Student Center, from 6 pm to 9:30 pm.

Alumni Members are welcome to attend RUSH week events.

Greetings Chapter Alumni! If your just stumbling upon our chapter website for the first time, please feel free to take a look around!

Our Members Directory lists the Active Brothers of the Chapter and has a brief bio about each of them, we have picture galleries of chapter activities over the past few years, and more!

We also provide a link here to our facebook and myspace networks!

The Newest edition of the Alumni Newsletter has been sent out on the alumni listserv, if you did not receive it, please notify me at mike48324@Yahoo.com, and/or the Alumni Advisor as soon as possible so you can get the information about the alumni scholarship, Formal, Founder's Day and more!!!

Also, new developments in Alumni Relations: We are updating our alumni records, and the Alpha Phi Alumni network has expanded from ONLY 28 people at the start of last year to over 100 Alumni members of our Chapter, including Charter members of our Chapter from 1992!!! We hope to continue to expand and improve upon our Alumni relations and strengthen ties between the past, present, and future of Phi Sigma Pi, because we are all Brothers for life!

The Social/Alumni Chair, Tanisha Hall, has already received a massive amount of feedback from the alumni community regarding plans for Formal...and this year's Winter Formal could have one of the highest turnouts in recent years!!!

ATTENTION all students of Eastern Michigan University!!!

Are you interested in becoming a part of a great student organization or a way to get more involved on campus?

Looking for great friends or a way to get more involved with the community?

Then come to one of our Informational Nights later this month, either:


Monday, January 28 from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm at Room 352 of the EMU Student Center
or
Thursday, January 31st Thursday is the final Info night for RUSH week, and will be held in Room 352 of the "New" Student Center, from 6 pm to 9:30 pm.

Food and drinks will be provided for free, all you need to do is bring yourself!!! This is a great opportunity to meet the Brothers of Phi Sigma Pi National Co-ed Honor Fraternity and have some fun!

In order to become a member of Phi Sigma Pi, you must have at least a 3.0 GPA , 12 credit hours , and at least 2 additional semesters remaining prior to graduation . For more information on what Phi Sigma Pi is all about, feel free to check out the rest of our website here or our national website at www.phisigmapi.org. We are the First Chapter to be founded in Michigan, and have been actively involved with community service projects, scholarship and leadership events for over 15 Years now. Please feel free to come to one of our Info Nights in the coming weeks...more information will be posted soon!

Learn What It Means To Exemplify Leadership, Scholarship, and Fellowship!!

For All members of Alpha Phi Chapter, Past and present...please take a look at our newly updated member directory when you have a chance to see what's changes over this past semester in terms of who's who, and if you want to find about those family trees, roll book numbers, etc., and Brother Biographies....they are now available.

Pictures of all members will be uploaded once I am able to obtain them from the Chapter Historian!

The Alpha Eta Class Service Project was held this past Sunday, and was an amazing success, numerous canned goods, fresh honeybaked hams, turkeys, and a great variety and abundance of food was gathered by the initiates and delivered to needy families for Thanksgiving this week, who will now be having a very happy Thanksgiving! The pictures taken of the event are posted in the Photo Gallery now.

And Alpha Etas, give yourselves a pat on the back before I do... you did a wonderful job!!!

Alpha Phi Wishes everyone a Happy Turkey Day, and is proud to help others to be able to enjoy the Holiday Season.

After a couple weeks of working on the new site, I'm pleased to announce, for the most part, it's up and running. With a much improved interface and admin panel, I hope the Chapter will be able to utilize it more.

Cool Features:
- Vastly improved photo album
- Ability to play "Brothers Are We"
- Cleaned up Member Directory.
- Implemented simplePHP blog for content administration
- Integrated Google Calendar for calendar functions
- Moved to a new host
- Moved to a different registrar
- Implemented SPAM filters on mailing lists
- Many other service related items that most won't understand, but will notice the improved service


Overall, this has been a fun project. The site may be up and down over the next few days, but hopefully more so up then down! The new design will also enable the chapter to create new (and renew) connections with the alumni in new ways!