Since this is my first post as a new author, I figure a little introduction might be appropriate. My name is Jon Wood, I’m a biology/pre-med student at the University of Tulsa and until less than a year ago, only a so-so active member in my chapter.

Since taking on the office of Rho, however, I’ve been inspired to do as much as I can to help the house grow. Many of the “problems” I had with the house in the past have been rectified and I now say proudly that I am a brother of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Yes, I am one of those “uppity-types” who get annoyed when it’s referred to as a “frat.” Calling my house a “frat” takes away the main purpose why I’m involved in the first place. For me, being in a fraternity is about the brotherhood. After all, my school is a wet campus so people can party just about anywhere.

It’s with these things in mind that I first ran for, and easily won, the not-so-recently-deceased office of High Rho. We’ve had Rho’s for the past 5 years, they just never did much. Pause for bragging In my first semester as Rho, I set up an alumni newsletter (with the help of a 3rd party publishing company) as well as began working on setting up alumni events (I’m happy to report we had around 30 alums attend our homecoming festivities). Speaking of which, due to recent inactivity I have almost no ideas for alumni events that will actually draw brothers back to the house, any ideas posted here would be vastly appreciated.

Well, that’s about enough for my first posting, I’ll keep blogging as things develop.

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