Delta Tau Delta

This

past Sunday,

April 22, we

had our first

major philan-

thropy event,

Dodge ball for

Diabetes. The

event oc-

curred in the

Field House

and had 16

teams of 5

each and

many other

spectators. The event

was a huge success. An

estimated $1600 was

raised to send children

with type 1 diabetes to

day camps to learn

about their disease and

how to live with it.

The event was

organized by philanthro-

py committee chairmen

Mike Howard and Joe

Kim. They, with the help

of many other Delts,

raised donations from

local businesses and

organizations, such as

Associated Residence

Halls, United Slater As-

sociation, Hy-Vee, Jimmy

Johns, and Best Buy,

who also donated a Blu-

ray player for our raffle.

The tournament,

along with

the Blu-

Ray player,

was won

by one of

the two

teams that

Phi Delta

Theta Fra-

ternity

sent to

support

our philan-

thropy.

We have

received feedback from

multiple Fraternities and

Sororities compliment-

ing us on our well orga-

nized and fun philan-

thropy event, and we

cannot wait for our tour-

nament next spring.

-Grady Finchum

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PH I L A N T H RO P Y EV E NT

May 1, 2012

Special points of inter-

est:

A year in review

Greek Week

Member of the

Month

Goals for next year

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Relay for Life 2

Member of the Month 3

Goals for Next Year 3

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2nd Semester Montage 5

ALUMNI NEWSLETTER

ALUM EV EN T This coming

football season, Fall of

2012, we are looking

into hosting an alumni

tailgate during the

Central Michigan

game. As a new colony

we want to build our

alumni relations as

best we can. A good

old fashioned tailgate

at the University of

Iowa should allow us

to get to know our

alumni better. It will

be essential to the

growth of our fraterni-

ty to have the support

of our alumni behind

us, which is why we

would hope to have a

big turn out with the

alumni at this event.

The event is in the

making and won’t be

finalized until mid-

summer. Look out for

more information re-

garding the tailgate.

-Ryan Schickerling

During

the week of April

15th to the 21st,

the Greek commu-

nity at the Univer-

sity of Iowa held

daily events for

fraternity and so-

rority members to

show up at. The

events ranged

from Greek Olym-

pics to dancing to guest

speakers. The goal of this

week is to show the com-

munity what being Greek is

all about and to break the

stereotypes portrayed in

Old School or Animal

House.

The theme of the week

was Real Greeks of Iowa

City, and every event that

was held was worth points

and the team (which was

combined chapters) with

the most points was the

winners of Greek week. We

started the week off by

winning the ultimate Fris-

bee game by a land-slide

which was a good way to

start the week off at the

Olympics. After that events

started to get harder con-

sidering it helps a lot to

have big chapters and we

just did not have the num-

bers to keep up with every-

one else. Even though the

Delts came up short of

winning this time, the skit

we did at the famous fol-

lies event portrayed this

theme very well and re-

ceived many compliments

from various chapters at

Iowa as being one of the

best ones of the night.

The week was a good way

for the community to see

Delts in action and we real-

ly got our name out there

and made many friends

along the way, especially

with the Chi Omega’s, who

now love us. Next year the

Delts are going to accept

nothing less than first

place considering the guys

we are accumulating in our

colony.

-Taylor McPherson

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A YEAR I N REV I EW

GR E E K WE E K

ended the year with no

tickets which we have

maintained through the

second semester and

we are working to main-

tain for as long as we

can. First semester end-

ed with a formal at Ta-

kanami, a sushi restau-

rant in Iowa City, which

was one of our first

events where we really

got to meet the rest of

the guys and start creat-

ing bonds between each

other. Second semester

we had around six so-

cials with sororities. We

had the socials with,

Alpha Xi Delta, Delta

Zeta, Alpha Chi Omega,

and Alpha Delta Pi.

Throughout the year we

have participated in

multiple community ser-

vice events and have

really helped not just

the Iowa City community

but we have been able

to help other communi-

ties around Iowa City.

For our first philanthro-

py, Dodge Ball for Dia-

betes, we raised over a

thousand dollars. To

really end our year we

had this semester’s for-

mal at Takanami again,

but this time there was

an entirely different at-

mosphere and it was

safe to say fun was had

by all. This was a great

way to end the semes-

ter. For the future we

are planning on getting

chartered as early as we

can next year. We are

not worried about re-

cruitment because we

continue have are good

reputation here on Iowa.

-Miles Brugh

These past two se-

mesters at the Universi-

ty of Iowa have been a

very interesting time to

be a member of Delta

Tau Delta. At the begin-

ning of this school year

most of us were not sure

what we wanted out of

our college experience

some were considering

fraternities and some

planned on not ever

joining one. The people

from central office start-

ed to gather people into

the brotherhood that we

have now. We gained

and lost people over the

course of the first se-

mester. We passed our

by-laws and mapped out

our plan for the Omicron

Crescent Colony at the

University of Iowa. We

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Meet Taylor

McPherson a fresh-

man here at the

University of Iowa.

He is 18 and from

Altoona, Iowa. He

is a finance major

who hopes to be-

come a financial

advisor after col-

lege. When asked

about his favorite

part of the fraterni-

ty so far he replied,

“the networking in-

volved with the

Greek community

and brotherhood.”

Currently he

is just a Joe Delt

and does not have

a position on the

administrative or

the executive

board, but he plans

on taking up the

Homecoming and

Greek Week chair

starting next se-

mester.

When asked

about his futures

goals for the

fraternity Taylor

replied, “I want

to see us as

one of the top

houses on cam-

pus. I want to

have a good

reputation.”

-Nathan Chavez

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GOA L S FO R N EXT YEAR

MEM BER OF TH E MONTH

bar set as high as our

hopes.

Our primary goal is

to get chartered. This has

been the goal since the

colony started, but now it

becomes a tangible reality

in the coming months.

There were several things

we must accomplish be-

fore be considered for a

charter, with recruitment

in numbers standing as

the last obstacle. While it

is hard to put a date on

this great achievement,

we are optimistic for the

coming fall.

While

a charter

may be a

high priority,

we do not want to lose what

makes our colony great and

unique. We look to become

the house on campus with

the highest GPA as well as

raising the most philanthro-

py money of any house on

campus. We also look to

draw in many new pledges

and recruits, thus expanding

our relationship with this

campus and becoming more

prevalent in the Greek com-

munity.

With high hopes and

many good men to carry the

tall orders we are optimistic

and excited for the eventful

year ahead.

-Jack Parr

The past year culminat-

ed in the fact that a new

colony of Delts was in-

troduced at the Universi-

ty of Iowa. In October

2011, 40 men were

chosen to reinstate the

Omicron colony at the

University. The struggles

from the first semester

as a colony are hard to

exemplify. In reality, we

lost many men and mo-

rale hit an all time low.

But coming back in the

Spring, we were all

ready to make our chap-

ter the best on campus.

Through diligent work

we accomplished more

than we could have an-

ticipated and are looking

to the next year with a

Contact me at if you

have any questions or

concerns at:

Nathan-

Chavez@uiowa.edu

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These newsletters

wouldn't be as good without

my brothers who help me

writing articles ad proof-

reading. My committee con-

sists of five other guys,

Grady Finchum, Jack Parr,

Miles Brugh, Taylor McPher-

son, and Ryan Schickerling.

-Nathan Chavez

ME E T TH E STAFF

Jack Parr

Taylor McPherson

Grady Finchum

Nathan Chavez

Ryan Schickerling

Miles Brugh

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