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Giving Thanks…

November 20th, 2007 by Art Hebbeler. Popularity: 78%.

It’s that time of year again, at least here in the States (our Canadian brothers celebrated Thanksgiving last month), and we turn our thoughts to giving thanks. Well, at least we should be doing that. The reality is that our current focus rests on one or more of the following (in no particular order): Preparing […]

“Youth today aren’t ‘Joiners’,” the man told me…

November 4th, 2007 by Art Hebbeler. Popularity: 100%.

In addition to my involvement in Lambda Chi Alpha, I am an active Freemason. I have served as the Master of a lodge, and will be the presiding officer is a Knights Templar commandery in the coming year. In fact, I have been a Freemason almost as long as I have been a Lambda Chi–the […]

“Deferred” Rush and Recruitment…Is it all that it cracks up to be?

October 5th, 2007 by Art Hebbeler. Popularity: 73%.

At the University of Maryland Baltimore County (at least until our president gets the name changed, as it is rumoured to be), we are in our second year of “deferred” rush. That is, no incoming student without a college-level GPA based on 12 credit hours or more can be offered a bid to join […]

Why I am glad to be a Lambda Chi.

September 19th, 2007 by Art Hebbeler. Popularity: 40%.

OK, maybe it’s bad form to blog twice in a row, but my blood pressure is up, and it’s up because I am glad to be a Lambda Chi and a fraternity man, and I am ticked off at an email I received from a brother fraternity’s executive director this week. Last month, one of our […]

Adventures of a New High Pi — Changes Afoot

September 15th, 2007 by Art Hebbeler. Popularity: 19%.

I didn’t realize how long it had been since I blogged here. My apologies to all for not keeping up with my commitment to blog at least twice a month. Then again, I see others aren’t blogging that much, either <grin>. When last I posted here, I had submitted my resignation as High Pi […]