Trick or Treat Street

We would like to invite all brothers and their families to a day of Halloween festivities at the University of Richmond's Fraternity Rows. Beta Beta will be hosting a Haunted House in this day that provides a safe Halloween experience for all children in Richmond and the surrounding areas. It should be a great event, and we hope that many of you can attend.

Party with The Jaybird

With 9 days to go until Homecoming, here's the current list of individuals that will be partying with The Jaybird next weekend. We've got 60 for golf, 85 for dinner, and 48 for the tailgate and football game. If you're among the stragglers that just hasn't gotten your money in yet - or if you're still on the fence - now's the time to buck up and make it happen. Do it for The Jaybird.

Ted Albrecht
Spence Andrews
Steve Arledge
Robin & Paula Barlowe
Hill Beck
Brian Beveridge
Page & Caress Bradford
Wayne Bradshaw
Ryan Buhl
Artie Bunnell
Doug Callaway
Paul & Lynn Cook
Truba & Fran Cooper
Robert Cranshaw
Gabe Crouch
Greg & Jennifer Desautels
Gene & Kathy Donner
Frank Fahrner
Gerald & Cyndee Fallen
John Fuller
Stan Gasiorowski
Tom & Annette Gates
Chris Genier
Jeff Given
Ed Godsey
Steve Goheen
Cliff Gordon
David Harrell
Preston Hicks
Neil Howard
Eric & Greer Hughes
Kevin Hutchinson
Wife Hutchinson
Thomas Kuspis
Jimmy Lee
Alexander Leukhart
Chuck Maguire
Walter Mann
Jim Massengill
Keith McCalla
Reid McClure
Keith & Barbie McGrath
Jonathan Meredith
Skip Muller
Steve & Sharon Murphy
Jim Newins
Milt Nuckols
David & Ann Oakes
Ryan O'Brien
Greg & Ann Pannell
John Peery
Bennett Peterson
Mike Poindexter
Bill Powell
Thomas Pressler
Peter Pruden
Ron Puckett
Mark Railsback
Patrick Regan
William Reisfeld
John Richardson
Mike Sellers
Jim Smith
Fran & Sharon Spanberger
Jason Stapf
Donald Steinbrugge
Richard Stockel
Scott Stolte
Donne & Anita Storino
Wayne Street
Jim & Davidina Sutherland
Bo Taylor
Scott Walker
Charlie Williams
Jay & Brenda Wright

If you don't see your wife's name above, it's because you didn't provide her name with your payment.

The Fall of Roscoe Jenkins

Our chapter made headlines last week. Though not the good kind.

It began with the chapter's rush chair demonstrating poor judgment by sending an email to rushees laced with offensive and degrading language. This email was quickly forwarded to the rest of the student body, university administrators, and even among alumni. The Collegian ran a front-page story that ensured the entire University community knew the most explicit passages of the email. The story even found it's way to the local news last night.

While opinions vary on the response, it's safe to say that the email itself was a poor reflection on our chapter, inconsistent with the values to which we aspire. Unfortunately, this one bad decision by one brother is going to affect how Kappa Sigma is perceived by the rest of the University for quite awhile.

Silver linings in all this: good to know the actives feel such pride about the quality of their lodge parties (according to rush chair Roscoe: "we don't do lodges; we f*cking invented 'em"); and good to know that alumni will turn out in droves to make a mockery of the whole thing through humorous comments to the Collegian story.

Excuses, Excuses

Readers may have noticed that posts to this blog have slowed to a stop the last few weeks. It was not manlove for Matty Baechtle that kept him & his bride the lead story for two weeks. In fact, two more substantial roadblocks prevented me from paying this site any attention.

At home, the toddler and newborn pictured above have seriously limited Daddy's "free-time" at home until at least 2009, early 2010. If I'm not watching Backyardigans with J.D., I'm changing diapers with Matty. Those of you with kids can empathize. Those of you without, we're looking for babysitters.

At work, a far greater impediment: upgraded web filtering software that has completely denied me access to this site. Now, I realize blogging is not the best use of one's work time. But considering the sheer number of hours that I spent in front of my computer at work each week, I don't think a few minutes posting ridiculous fraternal trivia is too much to ask. Alas, I'm not about to ask anyone.



If anyone out there wants to step up and take over this magnificent blog, please let me know. Until then, expect updates to be few and far between. Just don't chalk it up to apathy. I've still got plenty of love for this little brotherhood & plenty of material that needs to be shared.