Drake FIJI

You don’t know why you just woke up. You don’t understand why you would ever set your alarm for 7am the morning after Fiji RAVE. You head towards your alarm clock on the other side of the room, moving your purple pilgrim to press the off button and stop that awful beeping. Upon shutting off your clock it hits you, the reason you are awake this early is because you’ve got some highway to clean.

It has become somewhat of a Fiji tradition to participate in a highway cleanup the morning after RAVE. This year a group of pledges and actives sported some yellow safety vests (safety being one of the priorities of a Fiji- right after “Scholarship” but before “Fraternity” and “Foosball”) and stared down 2 miles of county road armed with trash bags and rubber gloves. The group worked a hard few hours to make sure their strip was in tip top condition before packing up their trash, posing for a group picture, and heading back to Drake. Maybe next semester we can go build a house the day after Island?

Brother Carter Oswood stood up during chapter meeting a few weeks ago with a vision of scaring the piss out of the local Greek community. This past weekend his vision turned into reality when he rallied the chapter to put on Greek street’s first haunted house, supporting the Creative Visions charity.

Oswood, a life-long Halloween enthusiast, came back from Fall break with a car load of goodies which he used to transform 1236 34th st into a freaky fraternity house. Blood was splattered on walls, fake scars and wounds were applied, and fake guts were bountiful as guests traversed the basement, first floor, and second floor while ghosts and zombies jumped out to deliver screams heard throughout the night. At only $5 per person, many found it so enjoyable they went through multiple times. After the two nights of haunting were completed, over $500 dollars had been raised.

Oswood hopes to do it even bigger and better next year. He has already talked about how we can make improvements to draw in even bigger crowds. This event is still in its infancy but Oswood hopes it will turn into a FIJI tradition to carry on for many years. Heck, dressing up as a zombie and scaring people for a good cause sure beats a highway cleanup any day. Be sure to ask Carter all about his haunted house at our upcoming PIG Dinner (November 5th)!

Perge!

For those of you out in Delta Iota FIJIland who take the time to visit the site on occasion- and for all I know there may not be a single one of you because I can’t figure out how to install that darn hit counter widget- I hope you have noticed that there has been a number of changes recently. We have rearranged the tabs for each page and have done some significant updating of content. Just about every page has something new on it so please take the time to check those things out and tell us what you think! We are making a very concerted effort to keep the webpage as up-to-date as possible. Quite frankly there is nothing we hate more than going to a website to see its content hasn’t been updated since 2004, so we’re going to try to not be one of those websites.

What’s going on at FIJI right now? Well we are in the midst of preparing for DG’s anchor splash which is coming up this weekend. Our new batch of awesome pledges have been getting up early and staying up late to work on the synchronized swimming routine which we hope will win us our 4th first-place in a row.  Also we are gearing up for Pig Dinner. Like the graduate page says, we will be posting a schedule of events soon so make sure you check that out and take some time to hang out before the actual dinner and ensuing celebrations start. One potential idea co-sponsored by the Brotherhood Committee and the Graduate Relations Chair is a Cigar Social at the house before Pig Dinner. Again, we’ll keep you posted on schedule updates via the website. Tune in for more posts to come in the near future!

Perge!