Dear Worthy Alumni,

Once again, I’d like to thank all of you who were able to come out for Alumni Weekend. I speak for our entire chapter saying that we all had an excellent time and enjoyed catching up with old friends and meeting new alumni. We hope to build on this success for our Alumni Weekend next fall, celebrating our chapter’s 20^th anniversary. Start spreading the word and let your pledge class members know so we can have an even greater turnout next year. To check out some of the photos from the weekend, visit our website at sigmachiiy.com. Also, our Historian, Michael Anastassiou made a slide show of pictures from the early years of IY and some of what we are doing to this day. You can view the slideshow on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrA5qfr.

Fall '08 Midsemester report

So far, this semester has been a strong and successful one for the Iota Upsilon chapter on many fronts. We have worked hard toward creating a very strong pledge class for the fall of 2008 thanks to the help of recruitment chair Glenn Harris (’11) and magisters Kyle Langan (’10) and A.J. Moody (’11). As of now, we have 13 pledges who are dedicated to proving to us that they obtain and hold the values of Sigma Chi highly and are capable of contributing positively to our chapter. The Alpha Nu pledge class consists of the following:

Michael Anastassiou (’12)
Raja Arumugam (’12)
Aleem Aziz (’12)
Louie Cohen (’12)
Philip Cook (’12)
Michael Digaetano (’10)
Matt Hames (’11)
Alexander Krall (’12)
Benny Levine (’12)
Danny Mangan (’12)
Michael Marino (’12)
Nate Thompson (’12)
Trevor Strittmatter (’11)

We have also had a very strong philanthropic semester thus far. We have raised money for charitable causes by holding Pie a Greek with Sigma Delta Tau, raising money for Habitat for Humanity, and by teaming up with UNICEF, raising money for underprivileged children. We also supported the Honan Fund, which looks to aid and foster local and national programs that support education, recreation, housing and healthcare, by running in the Brian Honan Road Race. Lastly, we worked toward creating a cleaner neighborhood by hosting the Allston Cleanup this month. Philanthropy chair Glenn Harris has worked hard to make sure we are active in helping the world around us. We would like to thank the alumni who donated online to UNICEF All donations are appreciated and make a difference.

This upcoming weekend, several of our brothers and our chapter advisor Ben Harris (Purdue ’04) will be driving up to Halifax, Nova Scotia to participate in our annual Province Conference. The rest of chapter looks forward to hearing about the experience and the knowledge gained that can help us become a stronger chapter.

A New "Chapter" for Iota Upsilon

In the past two weeks, there have been a lot of changes to the Iota Upsilon chapter. First, we initiated two new brothers: Matt Baginski ('11) and Adam Jendrisak ('11). We have also elected and installed officers for the upcoming year. Our new Consul, Alex Marinello, is the sole senior and will be making sure Iota Upsilon keeps heading in the right direction. Assisting him will be the new pro-consul, Alex Mazzaferro, who is entering his junior year at Boston University. The alumni will most likely be in contact with the new Tribune, Conor McManus, who has pledged to keep this blog alive and make sure alumni (new ones included) are kept up to date on all the Iota Upsilon happenings. Below is a complete list of the new officers. Congratulations to the new officers.

Consul- Alex Marinello ('09)

Pro Consul- Alex Mazzaferro ('10)

Tribune- Conor McManus ('10)

Annotator- Sam Baker ('10)

Magister- Kyle Langan ('10)

Social Chair- Stephen Lordan ('10)

Rush Chair, Philanthropy- Glenn Harris

Assistant Queastor- Adam Jendrisak ('11)
RMF- Bobby Goldsmith ('11)
Kustos- Cole Barris ('11)
Chapter Editor- Daniel Fusco ('10)
Scholarship- Conor McManus ('10)
Athletic Chair- Brett Sigler ('10)
IFC- Jackson Sandeen ('11)

Sigma Chi Honored by SAO

Tonight, the Iota Upsilon Chapter was honored at the Excellence in Student Activities Awards by winning the Best Philanthropy of the Year and for Brother of the Year. The Philanthropy of the Year was for our week long Derby Days event, which raised over $3,500 for the Huntsman Cancer Institute. The Brother of the Year went to sophomore Kyle Langan, who worked tirelessly in not only every facet of our fraternity, but also on the executive board of the IFC.

Congratulations to both the Iota Upsilon Chapter and Kyle Langan.

BU Greek Week 2008

The Most Awkward Lip Sync-er

Boston University Greek Week 2008 has come and gone. Events included a Lip Sync contest, Greek letters day, Greek games and special Greek speaker (the common theme being Greek). Awards were given out today and Sigma Chi was given the award for Most Helpful Fraternity. Also winning an award was Iota Upsilon's own Kyle Langan for "Most Awkward Lip Sync-er." Thanks to Brother Glenn Harris ('11) for working on Greek Week for our chapter.

Winners of Derby Days: Delta Delta Delta and the Huntsman Cancer Institute

Sweetheart Annie Thorne sporting a Derby Days T-Shirt

Brothers Marc Robins and Danny Robins at the Car Jam

The Tri Delta sorority (started at BU) won the 2008 Derby Days, squeaking out a victory over Sigma Kappa. After competing in the skit night, the car jam (photo in the post below), Boston pizza and grill night and the week long Coins for Cash, Delta Delta Delta came out as the overall winner of the most successful Derby Days in Iota Upsilon history. In all, we were able to raise over $3500 dollars for the Huntsman Cancer Institute and the sororities' philanthropies, with a large portion coming from online donations. Thanks to all the alumni who contributed.

Donate to Huntsman Cancer Institute

Hello Alumni... I just wanted to remind everyone that we have wrapped up our Derby Days, but we are keeping our online donations open until Tuesday. Please help us get to our goal of $3,000 that we are so close to reaching. If you could also forward the link to your co-workers and family, it would also be appreciated.

A complete wrap up of Derby Days will be coming next week so stay tuned....

http://www.active.com/donate/buderbydays