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

Derby Days!!!!!

From March 23rd to March 27th, we are holding our derby days. The schedule of events is listed below, but more importantly, we are hoping some of you gracious alumni would like to donate online for the Huntsman Cancer Institute. If you are interested in Donating anything, please go to...

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

We would really appreciate any kind of donations you could give. And if you could spread the word, we would love the help.


Schedule of Events:
Sunday, March 23rd 9pm Opening Ceremonies – There will be a brief presentation about Huntsman Cancer Institute, a run down of the week’s events, and free give aways. Maximum attendance is requested.
Monday, March 24th Coins and Cash (All Week) - This event will be on going all week so this is a day off of sorts. Chapters will be given positive points for all coins in their jug and negative points for all cash (so put coins in your bin and cash in the others!)
Tuesday, March 25th 7pm – Sigma Chi and each sorority will perform a skit based on a list of “must include” words and objects. Points will be given for the best skits.
Wednesday March 26th 3:30 pm Car Stuff – The car stuff event will take place at the Greek rock. Sororities will be given points based on how many members they are able to safely “stuff” into a car within a given amount of time.
Thursday, March 27th Boston Pizza and Grill Night – BPG has agreed to give portions of all orders to Derby Days. Order food all day and give them your chapter’s flyer. Each chapter will be awarded points based on the amount of BPG they order.

IY Goes on Spring Break

March 8-15 was spring break for Boston University and 6 of the Iota Upsilon brothers went to South Padre Island, TX to get away from Midterms and the 30 degree New England weather. While there, we hit the beach with Sigs from Texas Tech, Texas A&M and pretty much every other Sigma Chi south of the Mason Dixon line. The two pictures above are from the trip, showing us proudly waving (or wearing) the flag.